{"id":1697,"date":"2019-07-21T05:55:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T05:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prismaticfestival.com\/?page_id=1697"},"modified":"2020-07-10T16:56:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T16:56:25","slug":"barak-ade-soleil","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/prismaticfestival.com\/index.php\/barak-ade-soleil\/","title":{"rendered":"Barak ad\u00e9 Soleil"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Barak ad\u00e9 Soleil is an award-winning contemporary artist, independent curator, and facilitator who has been working professionally since 1991. Barak\u2019s creative practice speaks to the expanse of performativity and the labor of the body; utilizing techniques drawn from the African diaspora, queerness, disability culture, and postmodernism. \u00a0\u00a0Barak is the founder of D UNDERBELLY<\/em>, an interdisciplinary network of artists of color, and recipient of the prestigious Katherine Dunham Choreography award given by New York\u2019s AUDELCO<\/em> for excellence in Black Theatre.<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Recent acknowledgements for creative works include: 3Arts Foundation Award<\/strong> (2016)<\/em>; 3Arts Robert Rauschenberg Residency Fellowship<\/strong> (2017)<\/em>; and Art Matters Foundation Award<\/strong> (2017)<\/em>.\u00a0 Recent presentations include: \u201cfrom here to there\u201d<\/strong> for 2018 exhibition Chicago Disability Activism, Arts & Design, 1970\u2019s to Today at Gallery 400; and \u00a0\u201ca series of movements\u201d<\/strong> for both 2018 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art (Toronto),\u00a0 and VAE\u2019s Everyday Series at Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, NC.\u00a0\u00a0 At 205 Hudson Street Gallery, NYC, the newest work ‘markings” premiered as part of the 2019 group exhibition Refiguring The Future.\u00a0<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In Canada, among various endeavors, Barak has served as Artistic Director for Tangled Art + Disability, developed creative work at Montreal Arts Interculturels (MAI),\u00a0 and currently working as a Consultant in Artists’ Impact for The Deaf, Disability Mad Arts Alliance of Canada (DDMAAC), and co-curator of The TALK: 2019 for the upcoming Prismatic Arts Festival.\u00a0<\/p>

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