Tiona Nekkia McClodden explained

Tiona Nekkia McClodden
Birth Date:2 July 1981
Birth Place:Blytheville, Arkansas, U.S.
Education:Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College

Tiona Nekkia McClodden (July 2, 1981, Blytheville, Arkansas) is an interdisciplinary research-based conceptual artist, filmmaker and curator based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1] [2] [3]

Early life

McClodden was born in Blytheville, Arkansas, in 1981. She went to Clark Atlanta University, majoring in film and psychology. Although she did not graduate from Spelman College, McClodden continued extracurricular education in film there.[4] [5]

Career and works

McClodden's work explores concepts of gender, sexuality and race, centering a black, queer lineage. She produces her work through her film and media company Harriet's Gun, which she has said is a reference to Harriet Tubman.

She has created bodies of work in dedication to underrepresented African-American writers and musicians such as Langston Hughes and Florence B. Price or Essex Hemphill, Brad Johnson and Julius Eastman, who made work in the 1980s during the AIDS crisis in the US.[6]

Her work was shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia as part of the Speech/Acts exhibit in 2017.

McClodden has been the recipient of several notable awards. She was the fifth recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism at the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Human Rights Project at Bard College. In 2018, she was a Magnum Foundation Fund grantee.[7] In 2017 McClodden won the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award.[8] She was a 2016 Pew Fellow and received a grant from Pew in 2018.

McClodden showed in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta.[9] McClodden's exhibit was a three-hour-long, six-screen film documenting a religious pilgrimage she took to Nigeria, running on a loop.[10] In March 2020, it was announced that McClodden would be included in Prospect.5 in New Orleans, LA, curated by Naima J. Keith and Diana Nawi.[11]

McClodden is the founder of Conceptual Fade,[12] a combination gallery and library space in Philadelphia, PA. McClodden cites the inspiration for the space as the Pyramid Club as well as micro jazz bars in Japan. Conceptual Fade's library, is also McClodden's personal library, with a focus on Black artists and available to the public for research. [13]

The Brad Johnson Tape

Inspired by a poem by Johnson published in Other Countries: Black Gay Voices, McClodden created a 10-scene performance piece on VHS tape.[2]

A Recollection. + Predicated

A Recollection. + Predicated within Julius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental was curated by McClodden at The Kitchen in New York City. It centered three years of research around Eastman (in collaboration with Julius Eastman Estate), an internationally lauded minimalist composer who died homeless just shy of fifty years old.[14] This exhibition included an installation of artwork by Carolyn Lazard, Sondra Perry, Chloe Bass, and Texas Isaiah and musical performances of Eastman's work.[15] [16] [17]

CLUB

McClodden's piece, CLUB, took place in 2018 at the Performance Space New York, in a space where Keith Haring first exhibited. It explored the liminality of nightclubs, where visitors might leave their everyday persona outside and interact with different social boundaries.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Writing

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bard Names Tiona Nekkia McClodden the Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism. www.artforum.com. en-US. 2018-07-01.
  2. Web site: Tiona Nekkia McClodden. www.artforum.com. en-US. 2018-07-01.
  3. News: Performance Space New York Present Tiona Nekkia McClodden's Club. Staff. Curve. 2018-07-30. en.
  4. News: INTERVIEW: Queer multimedia artist Tiona McClodden AFROPUNK. 2014-05-20. AFROPUNK. 2018-07-30. en-US.
  5. Web site: Tiona McClodden - Sommerakademie at Zentrum Paul Klee. Bern. Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee. www.sommerakademie.zpk.org. en. 2018-07-30.
  6. News: Meet Pew's 2018 arts and culture grantees with a social impact slant - Generocity Philly. 2018-06-21. Generocity Philly. 2018-07-01. en-US.
  7. News: Chronicling the Lives of Women Along the Colombian-Venezuelan Border. 2018-07-30. en.
  8. Web site: Here Are the 2017 Tiffany Foundation Grant Recipients. Russeth. Andrew. 2018-02-15. ARTnews. en-US. 2018-07-30.
  9. Web site: Whitney Biennial 2019 . whitney.org . en.
  10. Web site: Experimental Filmmaker Tiona Nekkia McClodden Doesn't Care if You Miss the Point. 7 July 2019.
  11. Web site: Prospect New Orleans Announces Artist List for Prospect.5. 2020-11-12. www.artforum.com. en-US.
  12. Web site: CAAM #5WomenArtists 2021: Tiona Nekkia McClodden. 2021-05-19. caamuseum.org. en.
  13. Web site: Aton. Francesca. 2021-05-17. Five New Black-Run Art Spaces to Watch. 2021-05-19. ARTnews.com. en-US.
  14. Web site: Resurrecting The Political, Avant-Garde Music Of Julius Eastman. www.wbur.org. en. 2018-07-30.
  15. News: A Long-Lost Composer Is Raised From the Dead. The New York Times. 2018-07-30. en.
  16. News: After Years of Research, Minimalist Composer Julius Eastman Gets the Tribute He Deserves. 2017-05-17. Hyperallergic. 2018-07-30. en-US.
  17. News: A Long-Lost Score, Rebuilt With the Help of a Photo. The New York Times. 2018-07-30. en.
  18. Web site: New Exhibit Coming to EKG - "Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic,… . 2023-05-20 . Science Center . en-US.
  19. Web site: 2016-01-30 . Dreaming of Kin Opening Reception MoCADA . 2023-05-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160130123014/http://mocada.org/events/dreaming-of-kin/ . 2016-01-30 .
  20. Web site: 2018-01-08 . CLUB Performance Space New York . 2023-05-20 . en-US.
  21. News: 2019-11-13 . New York Galleries: What to See Right Now . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-05-20 . 0362-4331.
  22. Web site: cantram . 2021-06-08 . Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic, Movement III - The Triple Deities Installation - EVENT . 2023-05-20 . The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage . en.
  23. Web site: Tiona Nekkia McClodden . 2023-05-20 . P.5 Yesterday We Said Tomorrow . en-US.
  24. News: Smith . Roberta . 2022-08-18 . Her Art Comes Without Trigger Warnings . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-05-20 . 0362-4331.
  25. Web site: 2023-05-20 . THE POETICS OF BEAUTY WILL INEVITABLY RESORT TO THE MOST BASE PLEADINGS AND OTHER WILES IN ORDER TO SECURE ITS RELEASE • Kunsthalle Basel . 2023-05-20 . Kunsthalle Basel . en-US.
  26. Web site: McClodden . Tiona Nekkia . TIONA NEKKIA McCLODDEN ON TEXAS ISAIAH . 2023-05-20 . www.artforum.com . en-US.
  27. Web site: My Existential Limits To the Rectification of Past Wrongs Triple Canopy . 2023-05-20 . canopycanopycanopy.com . en.
  28. Web site: Love and Ethnology . 2023-05-20 . Sternberg Press . en.
  29. McClodden . Tiona Nekkia . 2019-07-03 . The Brad Johnson Tape, X - On Subjugation, 2017 . Souls . en . 21 . 2–3 . 209–214 . 10.1080/10999949.2019.1701342 . 216609529 . 1099-9949.
  30. Copeland . Huey . December 1, 2020 . A Questionnaire on Decolonization . 2023-05-20 . October . 174 . 3–125 . 10.1162/octo_a_00410. 229344459 . free .
  31. Book: Drew . Kimberly . Black Futures . Wortham . Jenna . . 2021 . 9780399181153 . 72–81.

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