Join us for A Vital Signs Artist Night, cohosted by the Angelito Collective.
During this special night in celebration of the exhibition Vital Signs: Artist and the Body, artists bring the theme of transformation and the body to life in MoMA’s galleries and other spaces through storytelling, creative prompts, music, screenings, conversation, and performance. Emphasizing creativity and connection, we’ll explore ideas related to freedom, belonging, and building a future where everyone feels seen.
The Angelito Collective is a creative initiative prioritizing trans and queer visibility in the development and sustainability of an economic network. Angelito is working toward a global renaissance, guided by the pillars of equity, collaboration, and representation.
This event is free and open to all. All artist activations are open-seating and available on a first-come, first-seated basis. Join us before the event for the event In Conversation: Suzanne Jackson and Ann Leda Shapiro at 6:30 p.m. in Titus Theater 2.
What’s happening
7:30–10:00 p.m.
Viewing of Vital Signs: Artists and the Body, Floor 3
7 Deadly Sins, a film by Miss Kam, Creativity Lab, Floor 2
Reception, Lobby, Floor 1
7:30
Notes on Cunt: Words and Sounds, Volume 2, a soundscape by Zora Jade Khiry, Lobby, Floor 1
7:45
Drawings for for Christina, A performance by Creighton Baxter with a description by Marcelline Mandeng Nken, Gallery 3E, Floor 3
8:15
7 Deadly Sins, a film by Miss Kam, introduced by members of the Angelito Collective, Titus Theater 2
8:30
The Unsinkable, a performance by ms. z tye, Gallery 3E, Floor 3
8:45
LADY SINGS THE BLUES, A performance by Fatima Jamal, Lobby, Floor 1
9:15
DJ set by DEMIIGODDESS of Angelito Collective, Lobby, Floor 1
Artists
The Angelito Collective is a creative initiative prioritizing trans and queer visibility in the development and sustainability of an economic network. Angelito is guided by the pillars of equity, collaboration, and representation, working toward a global renaissance. Members include Demíyah, Solàngel, Sinn Apsara, Divine, Jordan “Miss Kam” Kamara, and Ramie Ahmed.
Creighton Baxter explores temporality, remembrance, and the sensorium by transforming images and gestures with repetition. She has created commissioned performances for Boston University and the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, and has participated in exhibitions at Andrew Kreps Gallery, David Castillo, and Allen Memorial Art Museum, among others. Baxter has contributed illustrations to the Yale Review and Duke University Press, and has produced writing for Et Al. Projects, JB Blunk Estate, and Telematic Media Arts. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
Fatima Jamal is the writer and director of the forthcoming feature-length documentary No Fats, No Femmes. Her practice considers “the least of these” and the disinherited—those discarded and disappeared from Black collective imaginings and networks of care. Also known as “fatfemme,” a moniker that encapsulates life at the intersection of fat and femme identity (“spaces that people are afraid to occupy”), Fatima produces work straining—perhaps yearning—toward a world capacious enough to hold a fat, Black trans woman. Her work has been featured in Artforum, Seen, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and TriBeca, and at the Tate Modern. She is currently a first-year MDiv candidate at Union Theological Seminary and is working on her first manuscript whenever she can steal away.
Zora Jade Khiry is writer, DJ, and performer from Florida by way of Brooklyn by way of the Gullah. As a yung, lit bitch, her work across mediums explores themes of waywardness, fabulation, and surrealism, searching for the mystical in the mundane. She has performed at places like the Poetry Project, Brooklyn Museum, and the People’s Forum. Her work can be found at the Poetry Project, Changes Review, and Factory International.
ms. z tye, aka zerina tye, is a Brooklyn-based artist interested in physical investigations, including, but not limited to, movement, voice, sculpture, and theater. z explores concepts through ancestral praise. She is intrigued by somatic relations and how they associate with emotional connectivity. She has been included in exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of Art, Volta/Armory Art Fair, Swivel Gallery, Untitled Art Fair, Cierra Britton Gallery, the Living Gallery, Long Gallery Harlem, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Postmasters Gallery, Fridman Gallery, Art in Buildings, and Participant Inc. Her choreographic work has been commissioned by the Kitchen, BMW, the Shed, Danspace, Lotto Royale, MQBMBQ, BOFFO, Jack, Gibney, Movement Research, and Dance Canvas.
Accessibility
The Creativity Lab is equipped with an induction loop that transmits directly to hearing aids with T-coils.
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation is available for public programs upon request with two weeks’ advance notice. MoMA will make every effort to provide accommodation for requests made with less than two weeks’ notice. Please contact [email protected] to make a request for these accommodations.
All-gender restrooms are located on Floors 1, 3W, and T1.
MoMA is wheelchair accessible. Ask us to borrow a wheelchair. Wheelchair-accessible seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information on accessibility at MoMA please visit moma.org/visit/accessibility.
The Adobe Foundation is proud to support equity, learning, and creativity at MoMA.
Access and community programs at MoMA are supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
Major funding is provided by the Agnes Gund Education Endowment Fund for Public Programs, the Jeanne Thayer Young Scholars Fund, and the Annual Education Fund.