YATTA in Conversation
YATTA in Conversation
YATTA, Devin Kenny, E. Jane, and Salome Asega
Transmission from Isaac Kariuki
September 11 from 6 – 7PM
WSA, 180 Maiden Lane
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Ten years ago, the Walker Art Center brought together a survey of artists working from “the margins of the Internet” as part of Kimberly Drew's “Towards a New Digital Landscape” to answer a series of questions about how the internet influenced their practices.
A decade later, the questions raised still feel unresolved.
For this panel, YATTA gathers four artists and peers whose practices stretch across music, performance, arts organizing, and critical theory to ask: where have our practices carried us, and why?
Together, they revisit their positions from the original article and trace where the work has carried them since — the pivots away from internet art, the moments of growth, and what feels most urgent to name now.
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YATTA is a Sierra Leonean-American artist, producer, and composer. YATTA has performed in and presented installations at MOMA PS1, MOMA, MOCA, New Forms Festival, Sonic Acts Festival, and The Kitchen.
DEVIN KENNY is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, writer, and curator. Kenny's work has addressed network technology and the Black Atlantic, gentrification, the prison industrial complex, experimental music, subculture and countercultures, and alternative economies.
E. JANE is an interdisciplinary artist and musician who works in Brooklyn, NY. Through images, videos, performances, installations, and sound, they explore the interiority and labor of Black women and femmes.
SALOME ASEGA is the Director of NEW INC, the New Museum's cultural incubator for creative practitioners working across art, design, and technology. Asega is also an artist, researcher, and educator working between participatory design and emerging technologies.
ISAAC KARIUKI is a visual artist and writer whose work centres on surveillance, borders, internet culture and the black market, in relation to the Global South. He has exhibited at the Tate Modern, Kadist (Paris) and the Kampala Art Biennale.