A Bridge Across Time and Space

In this episode we talk about manifestations of Black connective energy with Kristina Kay Robinson and Erica Vital-Lazare. Robinson is an artist and writer based in New Orleans, while Vital-Lazare is a Las Vegas writer, scholar, and curator of exhibitions like the Barrick’s Seeing/Seen as well as the popular Obsidian and Neon: Building Black Life and Identity in Las Vegas. They’ve been working together on a new project that brings together the multimedia ethos of Robinson’s Afrofuturist creation, Republica: Temple of Color and Sound — on view at the Barrick in Notes for Tomorrow — and Vital-Lazare’s research into Black history and Black space. What happens when “the swampland” of Louisiana gets connected to “the desert” of Nevada? Listen and find out.

Interviewers: LeiAnn Huddleston, D.K. Sole

Interviewees: Kristina Kay Robinson, Erica Vital-Lazare

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This episode of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of art podcast was recorded with support from Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Notes for Tomorrow is a traveling exhibition organized and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI). Photo | Kristina Kay Robinson, Republica: Temple of Color and Sound (detail), 2018-present, sound installation. Courtesy of the artist.