CCAM Sound Art Series: Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother)

For the fourth and final event in the Spring 2021 Yale CCAM Sound Art Series we are excited to welcome Camae Ayewa!
Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother) is a national and international touring musician, poet, visual artist, and workshop facilitator, and has performed at numerous festivals, colleges, galleries, and museums around the world, sharing the stage with King Britt, Roscoe Mitchell, Claudia Rankine, Bell Hooks, and more. Camae is a vocalist in three collaborative performance groups: Irreversible Entanglements, MoorJewelry and 700bliss.
As a soundscape and visual artist, Ayewa’s work has been featured at Baltic Biennale, Samek Art Museum, Vox Populi, Pearlman Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art Chicago, ICA Philadelphia, Bergan Kunstall, Hirshorn Gallery, and in an upcoming 2018 solo show at The Kitchen NYC. As a workshop facilitator, Camae has presented at Cornell University, MOFO Festival, Moogfest, Black Dot Gallery and others. Camae is co-founder and curator of Rockers Philly Project a 10-year long running event series and festival focused on marginalized musicians and artists spanning multiple genres of music.
As a durational performance artist Camae has been commissioned by Moog Festival, Vox Populi Gallery, Icebox Gallery and others. Camae is also a writer and poet, her first book of poetry called Fetish Bones released on The AfroFuturist Affair small press. As a member of Black Quantum Futurism Collective (BQF), she has been a part of two literary works and several zines, and has been featured in exhibitions at the Schomburg Center, Rebuild Foundation, Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art, and Serpentine Gallery and more.
For this event, Camae will speak with moderator, Ross Wightman about her practice and have an open discussion around her work including poetry, visual art, and her recorded output.
This will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Cover photo: Chris Stitch
The CCAM Sound Art Series is Curated and Produced by Ross Wightman
CCAM Sound Art Logo Designed by Julia Schäfer and Jinu Hong
This online event is broadcast via Zoom and is free and open to all upon registration.
Link to join Zoom Webinar emailed upon registration