A evening of readings at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Performed in the Sky Room, August 3rd 2017.
The readings featured were written or selected by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, on the occasion of her exhibition “Under-Song For A Cipher.” A cast of New York–based performers read texts by authors including Charles Baudelaire, James Baldwin, and Yiadom-Boakye herself in this special summer public program.
From the New Musuem's archival page of the event: "Yiadom-Boakye’s creative practice moves between visual art and literature. As both a writer and a painter, she creates quotidian and otherworldly characters who emerge and develop on the page or the canvas, remaining distinct to the medium in which they were rendered. For this program, Olivia Rose Barresi, Carol Carter, Maurice McPherson, and Yvonna Pearson read poetry, short stories, and scripts selected by Yiadom-Boakye, exploring what emerges when these texts become unmoored from their time and place of origin."