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A Closer Walk with Thee: Performance by Theaster Gates

Presented by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC)

July 17, 2010

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The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston presents a Performance by Theaster Gates,* Saturday, July 17, 2010 at 2pm.  *Special location: Houston Museum of African American Culture, 4807 Caroline Street.

Artist Theaster Gates performs A Closer Walk with Thee (2010), a musical work that is part of his installation for CAMH's Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft. Gates creates, in his own words, "sculpture, performance, space, and friendship."

In Dave: A Legendary Black Clay Superhero and A Closer Walk with Thee (both 2010 and on view at CAMH), Gates provides a stage for his own music inspired by the writings of Dave the Potter, a slave born in South Carolina at the beginning of the nineteenth century who made pots for the plantation he served. Using the words Dave inscribed on the necks of the pots--his name, biblical verses, and couplets--Gates has created a musical piece, with lyrics in call-and-response form, with Dave's prompts and Gates' replies.

Performing with Gates are Yaw Agyeman, vocals; Charisma Sweat, vocals; Khari Lemuel, cello; and Joshua Abrams, bass.

Pictured:  Theaster Gates, Temple Performance in the artist's installation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2009. Photo: Sara Pooley. Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

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