Critical Race Theory exhibit packs powerful punch at third Ward’s Project Row Houses.
The exhibition “The Curious Case of Critical Race … Theory” is on view through June at Project Row Houses.An exhibition called “The Curious Case of Critical Race … Theory” doesn’t sound like a place to find balance and understanding, does it?
The Education House display provides a simple crash course in the origins and purpose of critical race theory, a scholarly concept that’s been wildly distorted and weaponized to limit what students learn about racism in school. The six artist spaces aim powerfully for the heart as well as the mind, making a compelling case for empathy toward bodies of color and Black lived experience.
“Shelter in Place,” the installation by Adam W. McKinney and collaborators from his organization DNAWORKS, uniquely employs an actual body as its primary medium. McKinney, who lives in Fort Worth, is a dancer-choreographer with a layered personal identity: He’s Black, Jewish and gay, and all of those things inform his art.
McKinney, a potent mover in his mid-40s, performed earlier in his career with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Béjart Ballet Lausanne, Alonzo King LINES Ballet and other leading companies. Spaces hold trauma, too, McKinney notes. While his dance vocabulary doesn’t change from one location to the next, its tone does. “I did a lot of listening, a lot of internal awareness work,” he says. He moves slower and more mournfully at the cemetery, hoping to conjure more than one man’s history: “It’s about sharing the story as part of the fabric that is Texas Black history … to insure that we don’t forget.
McKinney appears as his contemporary self in a tightly-framed video dance he calls “Glorious Clouds” that’s projected as a vertical sliver on one wall, as if it were a ray of sunlight filtering into a sukkah. Here, his intense, spiraling moves explore the “unending circularity” of his own experience. A plaintive soundtrack of yearning — Najeeb Sabour’s music for cello and voice — permeates the room.
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