Launch Event: Becoming fugitive state: Dominique White

Established in 2002, Bloc Projects is a contemporary arts organisation in the centre of Sheffield.Bloc Projects is a not-for-profit creative organisation with educational and charitable aims.We support artists at key stages in their careers through an acclaimed contemporary exhibitions programme.Our free public programme of talks, heritage projects, workshops and events supports the creative professional development of the local community, promoting diverse creative career pathways and providing generous opportunities for participatory learning, meaningful arts engagement and skill development.As an organisation we continue to work with other local art organisations, universities and charities to ensure our educational activities welcome a diverse and intergenerational demographic.

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Launching 'Becoming fugitive state' by artist Dominique White - come have a drink with us!

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** Launch event for Becoming fugitive state: Dominique White **Dominique White’s art practice dredges the ‘Shipwreck(ed)’ from the bottom of the sea. Teeming with life while totally bereft of it, clusters of shells, raffia and clay cling to hooks and ropes to testify Black transoceanic histories and futurities that exist in excess of time. Looming forms consume you, translating the intangible into immediate reality; futures-possible into the now. To date, Dominique has been exploring what she calls the ‘Shipwreck(ed)’: ‘a self-reflexivity and a state of being’. Perilously pulled into suspension, her works perform what Black feminist scholar Tina Campt calls ‘a politics of prefiguration that involves living the future now’. For Becoming fugitive state, Dominique presents a series of new drawings that dives further into the intangible, leaving the ‘Shipwreck(ed)’ for a ‘Shipwreck(ing)’. She turns to the present participle to ‘uncontain’ the shipwreck; to work through what Saidiya Hartman calls ‘the diffusion of terror’ that shapes Black becoming. Poet and Black studies scholar Fred Moten offers an addendum: ‘There is no remembering, no healing. There is, rather, a perpetual cutting.’ Her materials in this project are pared down to paper, chalk and kaolin clay. Shifting her weight from the Afrofuturistic object-promises of her sculptures, she lands on mutable, sketchier territories / terror-tories of impossibility. Always already embodied in Blackness (and ‘race’ more broadly), impossibility is as much lived in everyday horrors as it is inconceivable, beyond comprehension. Dominique attempts to draw this, articulating and disintegrating what can’t be—but is.

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