Artists Space

Not This

Performance
March 9, 2018, 7pm

Devin Kenny premieres a performance essay that centers concerns related to Blackness, social death, cryptocurrency, the prison-industrial complex, network technology and identity formation.

Not This is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Coop Fund, Amalle Dublon & Constantina Zavitsanos, Devin Kenny, John Neff (February 11 – March 31, 2018)

A BTCManager graphic showing a thermal view of a seated figure adjacent to a display screen depositing bitcoins.
[A BTCManager graphic showing a thermal view of a seated figure adjacent to a display screen depositing bitcoins.]

Devin Kenny is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, musician, and independent curator. He has collaborated with various art and music venues in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and elsewhere, including Recess, Het Roode Bioscoop, REDCAT, MoMA PS1, Freak City, and Santos Party House. A graduate of Cooper Union, he received his MFA in 2013 from the New Genres department at UCLA and is an alum of the Whitney Independent Study Program.

Devin Kenny: Not This. Performance documentation, March 9, 2018, Artists Space. [Video documentation of a mixed-media, audiovisual performance in front of a crowd.]