16 April 2024
Saul Williams
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Saul Williams, (born 1972, New York, USA), American poet, musician, and actor. His diverse repertoire spans music, literature, and film. Notably, he codirected the acclaimed sci-fi musical Neptune Frost with Anisia Uzeyman and starred in the award-winning film Slam. Saul’s discography includes six albums featuring collaborations with notable artists like Trent Reznor and Janelle Monáe. His literary opus comprises five poetry collections.
In When Solidarity Is Not a Metaphor, Williams’s Charging Station, cocreated with Uzeyman, resonates with the exhibition’s ethos of communal engagement and reflection, offering a locus for shared resistance against reigning narratives as an act of with-ness beyond mere rhetoric.
Anisia Uzeyman, (born 1975, Gihindamuyaga Mbazi, Rwanda), a multifaceted actress, playwright, and director, explores the confluence of theatre and film with a unique, poetic vision. Studied the Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique, she is the cinematographer and the codirector, with Saul Williams, of the sci-fi musical Neptune Frost, which earned accolades including a première at Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight 2021. Her directorial debut, Dreamstates, shot entirely on iPhones, challenges conventional filmmaking, blending road-movie aesthetics with digital-age storytelling.
In When Solidarity Is Not a Metaphor, Uzeyman’s collaboration with Saul Williams in Charging Station embodies the exhibition’s ethos, offering a communal avenue for dialogue and reflection, akin to the intimate yet expansive reach of solidarity itself, as envisioned by the show’s curatorial perspective.
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