Tonight I’m going to a panel featuring the fellows from Just a Band, a Kenyan house/disco/funk music group, though they definitely go above and beyond making music. While chatting with them over dinner, I learned a bit about their individual visual artistic styles, which range from photography to illustration to video. Their multi-genre leanings are showcased not only in their music videos (above: “Ha-He” spoofs blaxploitation films; below: they incorporate puppetry and silent film intertitles in “Hey!”, and “Iwinyo Piny” brings some pretty dope animation) but moreover through their new video-art installation KUDIShNyAO!, on exhibition until September 3rd at Rush Arts in Manhattan. Come check out the free event, and/or stop by Rush to see their exhibit!
Wednesday, August 31, 6-8pm
KUDIShNyAO!: An artist talk moderated by Wangechi Mutu
The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art
80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn (in the outside garden)
KUDISHNYAO! is the first exhibition in the United States of Kenyan collective, Just A Band. Just a Band will be giving an artist talk hosted by Wangechi Mutu. The exhibition is being shown at Rush Arts from August 18-September 3, 2011.
