Jake Blount + Mali Obomsawin
October 10 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
$25
Date: October 10, 2024
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Providence Public Library
Location: 150 Empire Street, Providence, RI
Tickets: General Admission tickets: $25 (+ $2 online processing fee) Pay-what-you-can tickets are available to our community members. Your ticket purchase in any amount directly supports FirstWorks connecting art with audiences.
About the performance: On their 2024 Smithsonian Folkways release, “symbiont,” Obomsawin’s and Blount’s “genrequeer” approach to their respective traditions has earned a place in some of the very same archives from which they extract their repertoire. In defiance of genre categories, revisionist histories, and linear time, Blount and Obomsawin have fashioned an Indigenous and Afrofuturist folklore that disintegrates the boundaries between acoustic and electric, artist and medium, and ancestor and progeny.