Date:
November 11, 2026, 6:00 – 9:00pm
Location:
Recess
Join artist and musician YATTA for the Opening Reception of their Session, Iron + Palm Wine: Koneh Pelawoe, at Recess.
Through Rogie’s musical legacy, YATTA explores the entanglements of Blackness, land, leisure, and extraction, asking what becomes possible when the psychic weight of labor, migration, and extraction is, even briefly, set down. Drawing on palm wine music as a balm for the psychic wounds of the transatlantic slave trade, YATTA considers whether Black wandering might offer a healing reversal to the fraught relationship between Black people and U.S. landscapes that are steeped in forced migration and labor.
Enjoy light refreshments and a first look at the installation. Followed by a poetry reading featuring poets included in Camille Dungy’s groundbreaking 2009 anthology Black Nature.
Presenters announced soon.