Keeping Count
Kameelah Janan Rasheed
NOME, Berlin
- Title
- Keeping Count
- Gallery
- NOME, Berlin
- Year
- 2021
- Duration
- 4 min 13 s
- Format & Technical
Video, sound.
- Kameelah Janan Rasheed, keeping count, 2021. Video, sound. Original score by Th&o (Johannesburg, South Africa). 4'13''. Courtesy
With interests in intertextuality, literacy, archiving, and ecology, Rasheed explores Black experimental poetics, vernaculars, and non-linearity as ways of narrating Black experience and thinking about modes of learning/unlearning.
Rasheed’s practice takes form across an ecosystem of provisional projects and experiments: large-scale text-banner installations, lecture performances, publications, sound works, library interventions, and xeroxed “architecturally-scaled collages” (Frieze, 2018), and other forms yet to be determined.”
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Kameelah Janan Rasheed
- Artist
- kameelahr.com
A learner, Kameelah Janan Rasheed (she/they), grapples with the poetics-pleasures-politics of Black knowledge production, information technologies, [un]learning, and belief formation.
Most recently, they are a recipient of a 2022 Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research; a 2022 Creative Capital Award; a 2022 Artists + Machine Intelligence Grants – Experiments with Google; and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts. Rasheed is the author of four artist’s books: i am not done yet (Mousse Publishing, 2022); An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations (Endless Editions, 2019); No New Theories (Printed Matter, 2019); and the digital publication Scoring the Stacks (Brooklyn Public Library, 2021). Her fifth artist book is due out in 2023 from KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin, DE).
They are an adjunct instructor at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a Critic at Yale School of Art, Sculpture, and a Mentor-in-Residence with NEW Inc.
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NOME
- Address
- Potsdamer Str. 72, 10785, Berlin, Germany
- Phone
- +49 30 92283788
- info@nomegallery.com
- Website
- nomegallery.com
NOME is a contemporary art gallery based in Berlin, founded by Luca Barbeni in 2015. The gallery represents both emerging and mid-career artists, many of whom have had their first international solo exhibitions at NOME. These artists engage in a range of practices, including activism, archival research, and the articulation of indigenous counter-narratives. The gallery’s curated program unfolds through various platforms such as exhibitions, concerts, talks, and editorial projects. NOME’s artists regularly participate in major institutional exhibitions and biennials. The gallery has taken part in international art fairs including Art Basel Statements, ARCOmadrid, The Armory Show, Artissima, EXPO Chicago, and Feria Material, among others.