X-TRA Winter Launch Event:
Ulysses Jenkins and the Non-Ontology of Blackness
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
7:30 pm
Human Resources
410 Cottage Home St
LA CA 90012
You’re just a mass of images you’ve gotten to know / from years and years of TV shows. / The hurting thing; the hidden pain / was written and bitten into your veins / I don’t and I won’t relate / and I think for some it’s too late!
–Ulysses Jenkins, Mass of Images (1978)
Drawing on her essay in the winter issue, “Written and Bitten: Ulysses Jenkins and the Non-Ontology of Blackness,” Aria Dean introduced Jenkins’ work, followed by a screening, and conversation between the artist Ulysses Jenkins and LA Municipal Gallery curator Erin Christovale about Jenkins’ work, focusing on the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The screenings included Mass of Images (1978) and Two Zone Transfer (1979).
ERIN CHRISTOVALE is a Los Angeles-based curator and programmer who is the co-founder of Black Radical Imagination and who currently works as an assistant curator at the Hammer Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles.
ARIA DEAN is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles, CA.
ULYSSES JENKINS is a widely recognized video/performance artist, whose work has been show in a number or national and international venues.