Artists Space

Segue Reading Series:
Hannah Black & Tongo Eisen-Martin

Reading
February 6, 2021, 5pm

This reading is presented as part of the Segue Reading Series.

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Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring Hannah Black and Tongo Eisen-Martin. [Bright mint green colored background with black text in the top half of the image that reads, "Segue Reading Series / Hannah Black & Tongo Eisen-Martin / February 6 / 5-6:30pm on Zoom / Suggested donation: Five dollars / Zoom ID: 830 2698 4031." Black text in the bottom right corner reads, "Artists Space."]

Segue Reading Series: Hannah Black & Tongo Eisen-Martin. Reading Documentation. Saturday February 6, 2021, 5pm. Artists Space, New York. [Video documentation of multiple individuals making introductions and reciting poetry with the use of imagery.]

Hannah Black is an artist and writer living in New York. Recent solo shows include Ruin/Rien at Arcadia Missa and Dede Eberhard Phantom at Kunstverein Braunschweig. Her work was part of Manifesta 13 and the 2020 Busan Biennial. She is the author of Dark Pool Party (2016) and Life (with Juliana Huxtable, 2017).

Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used throughout the country. Someone's Dead Already and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Pocket Poets series) won a California Book Award and an American Book Award and was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize.

Program support for Artists Space is provided by The Friends of Artists Space, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, The Cy Twombly Foundation, The David Teiger Foundation, The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The New York Community Trust, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, The Stavros Niarchos Foundation, The Willem de Kooning Foundation, The Danielson Foundation, The Fox Aarons Foundation, Herman Goldman Foundation, The Destina Foundation, The Luce Foundation, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, VIA Art Fund, Arison Arts Foundation, The Chicago Community Fund, The David Rockefeller Fund, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, The Jill and Peter Kraus Foundation, The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation.