Tasha Dougé
Participatory Art Project Launch by Tasha Dougé
Friday, October 9, 2020 6-7 pm EDT + ongoing
@forwhichitstands
Bronx-based conceptual artist Tasha Dougé will perform and record her reinterpretation of the Pledge of Allegiance with her flag artwork, Justice, at the Andrew Freedman Home.
Public Invitation: Tune in to the performance, livestreamed via the Instagram account @forwhichitstands on Friday October 9th at 6pm EDT.
After the performance, all are invited to add their voices to the artist’s re-mix edition of the Pledge of Allegiance by posting a reading of the Pledge of Allegiance with the hashtag #IpledgeAllegiance.
At the close of the exhibition, Dougé will add recordings of participants to her original performance footage, creating a collective chorus for equality and social justice reform.
Image above: The artist with her work, Justice. Photo by Anthony Lewis and courtesy of the artist. Justice, 2016, synthetic hair and cotton, 3 x 5 feet.
“I pledge allegiance to this flag that represents the unspoken but not forgotten true story of this here United States of America and to the Republic that has forgotten why it even stands. I want to remind you that we are one nation under your God and my God. With our lives and stories so intertwined, how could we not be indivisible. All we want. All we deserve.
What we demand is liberty and justice for all.”
Film features: Katarra Peterson, Alexandra Antoine, Natasha Becker, Kay Hickman and Sadaf Padder; Photographers: Doerte Fitschen-Rath, Ralston Smith, Katherine Taylor; Print by: Antoon Taghon of Uptown Fine Arts Printing Studio; Filming by: Walter Puryear III, Katya Akuma, Luis (Eli Efi) Da Silva, Christian McLaren.
Tasha Dougé is a Bronx-based, conceptual, mixed media artist, teaching artist, and cultural vigilante. Her work incites conversations around women, health advocacy, sexual education, societal "norms”, identity, and Black pride. As a proud Black woman of Haitian descent, it's very important and fundamental to Dougé’s practice to depict a more holistic description of Black identity and social contribution. The artist shares, “I use my art to exercise expression, enact empowerment and to serve as a bridge to connect and highlight those that are excluded and overlooked. My voice is the first tool within my art arsenal.”
Bio:
Tasha Dougé’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Essence Magazine and Sugarcane Magazine. She has shown nationally at the RISD Museum (Providence), The Apollo Theater (New York) and Rush Arts Gallery (Philadelphia) and internationally at the Hygiene Museum in Germany. Dougé is an alum of the Laundromat Project's Create Change Fellowship, Urban Bush Women's Summer Leadership Institute, The Studio Museum of Harlem's Museum Education Program, and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute's Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship.
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