CUE Art Foundation announces: 'Remnants of an Advanced Technology by Alisha B Wormsley
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CUE Art Foundation announces: 'Remnants of an Advanced Technology by Alisha B Wormsley
Alisha B Wormsley, The Chariot (Ride or Die again), 2022; photo print on fabric, fabric, and metal leaf. Photo courtesy the artist.



NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, September 15th, CUE Art Foundation opened Remnants of an Advanced Technology, a solo exhibition by Pittsburgh-based artist Alisha B Wormsley, with curatorial mentorship from Joeonna Belladoro-Samuels. The exhibition, presented at CUE’s gallery space (137 W. 25th Street) is the first solo show by the artist in New York City. During the opening reception, artists Li Harris, Jasmine Hearn, and Jamila Raegan—longtime collaborators of Wormsley’s—will each host a ritual offering to bless the Children of NAN archive. The show will remain on view until October 22nd, 2022. Attendance during gallery hours (Wed–Sat, 12-6 pm) is free; no reservations are required.

It is right that a woman should lead. A womb is what god made in the beginning. And in the womb was born Time and all that fills up space. So says the beautiful spirit. –Mother Seal via Zora Neale Hurston

Remnants of an Advanced Technology is a solo exhibition by artist Alisha B Wormsley with curatorial mentorship from Joeonna Belladoro-Samuels. The exhibition is rooted in the artist’s ongoing project, Children of NAN, a physical and theoretical archive that documents the ways in which Black womxn care for themselves, each other, and the earth. Remnants of an Advanced Technology draws from this archive to present three bodies of work: photo-based quilts, tapestries, and vessels. To the artist, these objects become maps, circuits, and the womb. Collectively, they begin to formulate a creation story imbued with notions of sovereignty, one that is grounded simultaneously in ancient and futuristic practices.




“There are not enough words, spaces, and worlds dedicated to the richness of Black women,” begins exhibition catalogue essayist Amanda Dibando Awanjo. For the past two decades, Wormsley has positioned herself as an archivist of this matter. The objects, photos, video, films, sounds, philosophies, myths, rituals, and performances she has accumulated as part of Children of NAN serve as a growing survival guide, a tool that lives between legacy and prophecy. Remnants of an Advanced Technology at CUE—the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York City—is but one story in the world being created by Wormsley: a thriving radical dimension that centers the agency and decolonized dreams of Black womxn.

Advancing “technology” beyond the purview of the privileged and powerful, Wormsley imagines another realm—one in which care, healing, sacredness, and science converge through Black matriarchal presence. Through the works in the exhibition, she creates portals through time, space, and spirit, transforming an object “into a shrine of itself, and then build[ing] around it until its singularity gives way to a constellation,” remarks exhibition mentor Joeonna Belladoro-Samuels. “In beholding her works and her materials, I can’t help but find home. They are charged with memory, and offer me the aspiration of becoming part of the world being constructed by her hand.”

Alisha B Wormsley is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer based in Pittsburgh, PA. Her work contributes to the imagining of the future of arts, science, and technology through the lens of Black womxn, challenging contemporary views of modern American life through whichever medium she feels is the best form of expression. This includes actions such as creating an object, a sculpture, a billboard, a performance, or a film. Wormsley thrives in collaboration.

Over the last few years, Wormsley has designed public art initiatives including Streaming Space, a 24-foot pyramid with video and sound installed in downtown Pittsburgh, as well as several park designs and a newly commissioned public artwork at the Pittsburgh International Airport. Wormsley’s ongoing public program, There Are Black People In the Future, gives mini-grants to open up discourse around displacement and gentrification. In 2020, she launched Sibyls Shrine, an arts residency for Black creative mothers that has received support from the Heinz Endowments. In 2022, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship with longtime collaborator Li Harris to engage in site-specific fieldwork in international and national topographical locations, with the goal of making a film that establishes a series of portals to an inner space reality for Black exponential potential of Being. Wormsley was recently selected with collaborator Kite for Creative Time’s 2023 commissioned open call. Integrating media, public space, and public interaction, they will design invitations for rest and reimagination rooted in practices of Afro-Futurism and Indigenous Protocol.

Wormsley’s work has been exhibited widely, most recently at the Oakland Museum, VCUArts Qatar, Speed Museum, Artpace, Times Square Arts, Mattress Factory Contemporary Museum, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. She has received fellowships from Monument Lab and the Goethe Institute, as well as the Sundance Interdisciplinary Grant and the Carol Brown Achievement Award, among others. Wormsley holds an MFA in Film and Video from Bard College, and is currently a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University.










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