Rebecca Bellantoni
Do I Worry? (MAMA), 2020
Collaboration with Rowdy SS
Further images
“Quiet as it’s kept…”The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
“...the radical (both rooted and out there, immanent and transcendent) sensuality- of and for my people” p26, In the break: The aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, Fred Moten
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Do I Worry? (MAMA), is a new performance work by Rebecca Bellantoni with Rowdy SS. The performance is first and foremost an acknowledgement of the length and ongoing nature of the worry. It honours the generations of Black resistance, joy, creativity and determination.
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The work has deep roots in the lives of Black people and the role of spirituality, religion and music/sound in our experience. The work speaks to the boundless nature of Blackness as life and theory.
The title is taken from Scotty’s 1968 song, I Worry. It is a classic in the canon of early Reggae, Rebecca’s first musical love and a music of resistance, love and power.
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Credits: Curated by Cole Projects
Filmed by @kat_perlak Edited by @rowdy_ss
Sound by @rowdy_ss
“Quiet as it’s kept…”The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
“...the radical (both rooted and out there, immanent and transcendent) sensuality- of and for my people” p26, In the break: The aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, Fred Moten-
Do I Worry? (MAMA), is a new performance work by Rebecca Bellantoni with Rowdy SS. The performance is first and foremost an acknowledgement of the length and ongoing nature of the worry. It honours the generations of Black resistance, joy, creativity and determination.
The work has deep roots in the lives of Black people and the role of spirituality, religion and music/sound in our experience. The work speaks to the boundless nature of Blackness as life and theory. The title is taken from Scotty’s 1968 song, I Worry. It is a classic in the canon of early Reggae, Rebecca’s first musical love and a music of resistance, love and power.
-Credits:
Curated by Cole Projects
Filmed by @kat_perlak E
dited by @rebecca.bellantoni
Sound by @rowdy_ss
“...the radical (both rooted and out there, immanent and transcendent) sensuality- of and for my people” p26, In the break: The aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, Fred Moten-
Do I Worry? (MAMA), is a new performance work by Rebecca Bellantoni with Rowdy SS. The performance is first and foremost an acknowledgement of the length and ongoing nature of the worry. It honours the generations of Black resistance, joy, creativity and determination.
The work has deep roots in the lives of Black people and the role of spirituality, religion and music/sound in our experience. The work speaks to the boundless nature of Blackness as life and theory. The title is taken from Scotty’s 1968 song, I Worry. It is a classic in the canon of early Reggae, Rebecca’s first musical love and a music of resistance, love and power.
-Credits:
Curated by Cole Projects
Filmed by @kat_perlak E
dited by @rebecca.bellantoni
Sound by @rowdy_ss
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