Our Newark Futures: An Artist Talk with Shola Cole aka Pirate Jenny
Decolonizing Land Food and Bodies
An Artist Talk with Shola Cole aka Pirate Jenny
Thursday, November 14, 2024
6:30-8:00pm
Main Library
5 Washington Street
4th Floor Auditorium
Please join Shola Cole aka Pirate Jenny for a special dinner/artist talk at the Newark Public Library as a part of the Our Newark Futures series with the Price Institute at Rutgers University-Newark. Cole (they/themme & she/hers) is an inter/anti disciplinary performance artist and Afro-Caribbean/UK-born immigrant. An artist, adult learner, neuro-queer and youthfully mature being exploring their gender non-conforming edges – Cole explores radio, movement, drawing, figure modeling and recently QT/BIPOC land stewardship within her time traveling tool wearing avatar, Pirate Jenny (PJ).
Rooting their work around the “othered” body in service to capitalism and its “systemic grind” and contortions – Cole deepens their art life practice by layering justice in QT/BIPOC farming while integrating newly acquired skills in the trades. In an ongoing response to undoing the colonial foundations in their upbringing, she envisions ‘A Vanderful Life’, a reimagining of community that centers nomadic, mobile design uplifting art and viably radical food futures in QT/LGBIA2+/BIPoC agriculture. Cole is currently working on ‘Till the Othered BAWDY, a piece exploring food access, apartheid and the body through use of Pirate Jenny’s time travel tools.
Light refreshments served.
