When History Wakes, with Sameetah Agha, Kazembe Balagun, Adam HajYahia, Amirtha Kidambi, Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, Yasmina Price, Suneil Sanzgiri & Luke Stewart

Presented by artist Suneil Sanzgiri and writer and programmer Yasmina Price, the afternoon will feature conversation, music, and poetry that recover memories of interrelated struggles. The musicians Luke Stewart and Amirtha Kidambi—both of whom have scored works currently on view in Sanzgiri's Brooklyn Museum exhibition “Here the Earth Grows Gold”—will present a performance of upright bass, voice, and amplifier feedback drawing on the vocabularies of improvised Black and Indian musics from free jazz to noise and rock. The organizer and scholar Kazembe Balagun will moderate a conversation with Price, Sanzgiri, historian Sameetah Agha, poet Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, and curator Adam HajYahia. The event will close with a reading by Nayeem, who also provided a poetic script for Sanzgiri’s Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?) (2023).

When History Wakes is free and open to the public. Masks will be provided for anyone who would like to use one.

Presented by artist Suneil Sanzgiri and writer and programmer Yasmina Price, the afternoon will feature conversation, music, and poetry that recover memories of interrelated struggles. The musicians Luke Stewart and Amirtha Kidambi—both of whom have scored works currently on view in Sanzgiri's Brooklyn Museum exhibition “Here the Earth Grows Gold”—will present a performance of upright bass, voice, and amplifier feedback drawing on the vocabularies of improvised Black and Indian musics from free jazz to noise and rock. The organizer and scholar Kazembe Balagun will moderate a conversation with Price, Sanzgiri, historian Sameetah Agha, poet Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, and curator Adam HajYahia. The event will close with a reading by Nayeem, who also provided a poetic script for Sanzgiri’s Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?) (2023).

When History Wakes is free and open to the public. Masks will be provided for anyone who would like to use one.