The Black Earth Study Club comprised a series of transdisciplinary public programs held at SI on the occasion of Nolan Oswald Dennis’s exhibition, overturns. Unfolding over four thematic chapters between January and April 2025, the programs brought together artists and scholars predominantly from the African continent and its global diasporas to reflect on Black metaphysics, anti-colonial pedagogy, cosmo-computation, and land dispossession. Guided by Dennis’s artistic, scientific, and philosophical ruminations on the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonization, these lectures, workshops and performances aimed to create a temporary space of conviviality, sociality, and collective study.
Sat Apr 12 2025, 2:00—5:30pm
Sat Mar 15 2025, 2:00—4:00pm
Wed Mar 12 2025, 7:00pm
Wed Feb 19 2025, 7:00pm
Sat Jan 25 2025, 2:00pm