📡No Humans Involved is now open @hammer_museum 🦋⚡️Curated by the inimitable Erin Christovale @erinzulie 🤍⚡️The exhibitions includes 🌘The Space Congregation, 2019 and Ascension of the Holy Vessel, 2020🌒 Thank you Erin, Vanessa, Hammer Museum and @nightgallery ❤️‍🔥⚡️🦋🫀 Repost @erinzulie : In 1992 Jamaican scholar and theorist #SylviaWynter penned a critical text, “No Humans Involved: An Open Letter to My Colleagues.” The title refers to an internal code that was used by the Los Angeles Police Department, usually in relation to cases that disproportionately involved Black and Brown Angelenos who were often identified as sex workers, gang members, or drug traffickers. The code became public knowledge in 1992, shortly after the trial and ultimate acquittal of the four police officers charged with the use of excessive force in the brutal beating of Rodney King. In her open letter, written to her colleagues as a call to action, Wynter argues that the origins of Western humanism, steeped in imperial pursuits and colonial violence, determine contemporary constructs of race, gender, class, sexuality, and other categories that continue to shape our lived experience and justify or deny our humanity. The exhibition, #NoHumansInvolved showcases the work of #EddieAparicio #TauLewis #LasNietasdeNonó #SondraPerry #SANGREE #WangShui and #WilmerWilsonIV whose practices disrupt and interrogate Western ideals of humanism. Through conceptual and material explorations, these artists and collectives across the diverse regions of the diasporic Americas consider the systems, institutions, lineages, and cultural objects that uphold our sense of being via sculpture, textiles, performance, installation and multimedia interventions. By centering the nonhuman or anti human as a point of departure, highlighting ancient and indigenous technologies, and utilizing artificial intelligence software, No Humans Involved, attempts to provide a contemporary response to Wynter’s original call to action💜