point comfort 2020

Dennis Manuel: The Eye of AFROPUNK

Point Comfort Art Fair + Show 2020 will feature "Dennis Manuel: The Eye of AFROPUNK" a photographic art exhibit. Dennis Manuel is a performance photographer that has captured images of Black performance art for 20 years. Recognized as the go-to photographer of New York musical performances, he reaches his apex in the genre as the official photographer of the AFROPUNK Festival. “Dennis Manuel: The Eye of Afro Punk” will include an outdoor video installation projected on the outside walls of the gallery, and on screens within the interior gardens. Our goal is to maintain an open air gallery experience, with a limited option to see the exhibit within the gallery. By projecting the interior exhibition outside, we hope to achieve an innovation in gallery experiences. COVID 19 restrictions will be strictly enforced with temperature tests upon entry, masks and social distancing.

AFROPUNK is a cultural movement with its origins in the groundbreaking 2003 documentary that resulted in a movement featuring the clash of Punk and Afrofuturism. The documentary by James Spooner, explored the roles of African Americans within what was then an overwhelmingly white punk scene across the United States of America—and taking place as the world shifted with the galvanizing power of the internet. From its humble beginnings AFROPUNK Festival has become a global movement. an annual arts festival that includes live music, film, fashion, and art produced by Black artists. The festival made its debut at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in 2005, and has since expanded to other parts of the world or Atlanta, London, Paris and Johannesburg, South Africa. Dennis, as the official photographer of this global movement has captured it all. Hampton Art Lovers is proud to curate this photo explosion of the evolution of Black folk expressing alternative realities of culture beyond the mainstream aesthetic of what it is to be African American or Blackness in a global perspective. This exhibition is not just about the "Performer", but also the "People" that ground the movement and the "Scene" that produces the vibes.

AFROPUNK is not just a music movement, but the soundtrack for social change, more relevant today as in 2013. That’s why its festival stages are famously lined with banners bearing the rules: “No Sexism, No Racism, No Ableism, No Ageism, No Homophobia, No Fatphobia, No Transphobia, and No Hatefulness”. Refreshing ideas after four years of increased racial tension in America, fanned by an American President. The Charlottesville car attack into a crowd of peaceful protesters, killing Heather Heyer, was the call to action. The state sanctioned murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the international protest that ensued were the capstone. The result for many, was a renewed American consciousness that lifted Kamala Harris as the first woman to serve as Vice President of the United States, a Black woman. This national trend also extended to South Florida, where we saw record numbers of African Americans assuming elected office, and the first woman elected countywide as Mayor of Miami Dade County.

COVID 19 restrictions will be strictly enforced with temperature tests upon entry, masks and social distancing.

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