Crystal Z Campbell: Go-Rilla Means War Screening and Artist Talk
Visual Studies Workshop
31 Prince St.
Feb 2, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Featuring 35mm footage salvaged from a now demolished black civil rights theater in Brooklyn, New York, Go-Rilla Means War is an experimental short that merges fact and fiction. The film is a relic of gentrification and highlights the complex intersections of development, cultural preservation, and erasure in the form of an intricately spoken parable and celluloid frames weathered by decades of urban neglect.

Crystal Z Campbell is an interdisciplinary artist and writer of African-American, Filipino, and Chinese descents. Campbell combines physical archives, found objects, and internet sources while questioning the politics of the witness. Campbell exhibits internationally and has been resident at Skowhegan, Whitney ISP, MacDowell, Smithsonian Museum, and Tulsa Artist Fellowship.