So thrilled to feature the brilliant Rashaad Newsome in In the Black Fantastic @hayward.gallery. Here, he discusses the history of voguing and the theme of resistance in his video piece Build or Destroy (2021): "By using our voice and our creativity we can all change, not only ourselves but the world around us..." Hayward Gallery Shorts In Build or Destroy (2021), Newsome animates the bedazzled and blazing body against an original soundtrack. The piece explores ideas around identity construction - particularly Black trans femme identity - and how performance might offer space for its creation and detonation. FEATURED DANCERS 🔥 @honey.balenciaga 🔥 @divo_couture Rashaad Newsome’s (@rashaadnewsome) work blends several practices, including collage, assemblage, sculpture, film, video, animation, photography, music, computer programming, software engineering, community organising, and performance, to create a divergent field that rejects classification. Using the diasporic traditions of improvisation, he pulls from the world of advertising, the internet, Art History, Black and Queer culture to produce counter-hegemonic work that walks the tightrope between social practice, abstraction, and intersectionality 🔮 In the Black Fantastic Hayward Gallery 📅 Until 18 September 2022 🔗 More Info & Booking link in bio #RashaadNewsome #Voguing #MotionCapture #MotionCaptureArt #VideoArt #Animation #InTheBlackFantastic #Afrofuturism #Folklore #MagicRealism #Art #BlackArt #BlackArtist #Gallery #GalleryOpening #HaywardGallery