VIEW FROM THE EDGE! On Periphery-Center Relationships

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Event Description

VIEW FROM THE EDGE! is a variety show written and directed by Tunde Wey that explores the African continent as Mother. Through performance, vignettes, interviews, monologues, and movement, this intimate production posits Africa as corporeal and corpse, shaped by catastrophe and ongoing colonial stratagems.

Content warning: This event includes content about cancer, illness, and death.

Please note that this is an in-person-only event. A recording of the show will be released at a later date on the Harvard GSD YouTube channel.

Performers

SHEENA DHAM (she/her) is a musician, composer, and songwriter living in Oakland, CA. Her songs, compositions, and performances have been featured in international art hubs including the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), de Young Museum (San Francisco), and Proyectos Públicos (Mexico City), outdoor brands that include the North Face and Arc’teryx, and documentary film featured at Cannes International Series Festival, SeriesFest, and beyond. In addition to her work as a composer, she is signed with Psychic Eye Records as an experimental multi-genre musician. Her latest album, Familiarity Heuristic, is available on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms.

John Peterson, architect, educator, and activist, is the Curator of the Loeb Fellowship. Peterson is the founder of Public Architecture, a national nonprofit organization based in San Francisco. The organization’s work has been showcased at the Venice Architecture Biennale, MoMA, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Benaki Museum in Athens, and the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. Peterson’s work has appeared in several books and publications, including The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong, The New York Times, Architectural Record, Architect, Metropolis, and the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

Tunde Wey is a social practice artist living between Nigeria and the United States. Working at the intersection of capital and the political economy, Wey’s work engages material hierarchies and disparities, focusing particularly on how economics and finance impact working-class Black people globally. He uses food, writing, film, performance, installation, and finance to confront these disparities and attempts interventions in the same mediums.  Wey’s work has been widely covered in national and international publications. He is a 2025 Harvard Loeb Fellow; a 2024 CANNESERIES Official Selection; a recipient of the Monroe Fellowship from Tulane University and the Ford Foundation Just Films Grant.

This event is part of ArtsThursdays, a university-wide initiative supported by Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA).

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