Imagining Digital | Deeper Lecture: Pamela Sneed

Early Bird Price Through August 31: $15
General Price: $20

Sneed presents and discusses work from a new hybrid poetry book, 9:29, which reflects on the Floyd uprisings, her father’s death, the pandemic, and lots of film reviews.

ABOUT PAMELA SNEED

Pamela Sneed is a New York-based poet, performer, visual artist, and educator. She is the author of Funeral Diva, a memoir of the AIDS crisis, which won the 2021 Lambda Lesbian Poetry Award. Other published works include Sweet Dreams (2018), KONG (2009), Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery (1998). She appears in Nikki Giovanni’s The 100 Best African American Poems and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. Sneed is widely published in journals such as The Brooklyn Rail, ArtForum, The Paris Review, and Frieze. Sneed has performed at the Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Poetry Project, The High Line, the New Museum, and Toronto Biennale, and she was the inaugural reader for the Living Gallery series (now WORD!) devoted to word-based performance, curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa at Gibney.

We encourage you to join this digital event in real time to participate in discussion and artist Q&As! However, if you are unable to join us at the time of the event, the full recording will be made available to all attendees 48 hours after the live event. Patrons will have access to that recording for 10 days via Gibney’s Vimeo account.

The Deeper Lecture series, curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa features talks or other interactive discourse events designed to acquaint Gibney’s community of artists and audiences with the most provocative, influential, and inspiring minds at work in the arts, humanities and activism.

Photo by Lia Clay.