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Minor Music at the End of the World
October 3-5, 2025, The International Theater Amsterdam (ITA)
November 2024 at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
Minor Music at the End of the World is a performance in three movements based on Saidiya Hartman’s acclaimed essays “The End of White Supremacy: An American Romance” and “Litany for Grieving Sisters.” Tina Campt helped long-term collaborator Hartman transform her essays into this stage performance. “The Collaboratorium hosted an early workshop to incubate one part of the project at Princeton,” said Campt, “and we staged an open rehearsal of the second part of the project at Brooklyn Academy of Music. The work has evolved a lot over the past year and we’re very excited about the world premiere in Amsterdam.” Campt moderated a post-show conversation about the performance on October 5 in Amsterdam along with other events listed below. Commissioned and presented by Hartwig Art Foundation.
Written by Saidiya Hartman
Directed by Sarah Benson
Executive Produced by Tina Campt
Featuring Andre Holland and Okwui Okpokwasili
Film by Arthur Jafa
Lighting Design by Jane Cox; assisted by Tess James
Sound Design by Stan Mathabane ’17
Additional Programming for Minor Music
Other events organized by Tina Campt include:
- October 4, 2025 — Minor Music at Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam with Hartwig Art Foundation. A special program of talks and encounters with Saidiya Hartman, Arthur Jafa, Precious Okoyomon, Cameron Rowland, Pelumi Adejumo, and Alexander Ghedi Weheliye, moderated by Quinsy Gario and Derica Shields.
- October 5, 2025 — After Talk at International Theater Amsterdam (ITA) with Saidiya Hartman, Sarah Benson, Okwui Okpokwasili, André Holland a.o, moderated by Rita Ouédraogo and Tina Campt.
- October 3-17, 2025 — Arthur Jafa exhibits the works Love in the Message, the Message is Death (2016) and APEX (2013) at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Watch Trailer for Minor Music
Think from Black: a Lexicon — Part I
January 26-28, 2023, at the University of Johannesburg
A unique three-day convening in Johannesburg presented by the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class in collaboration with the Practicing Refusal Collective (PRC) and co-sponsored by the Princeton Collaboratorium and the Columbia University Institute for Research on Women and Gender Studies. A local cohort of seventeen artists, thinkers, writers, curators and practitioners joined visiting PRC members for a series of intimate discussions, listening sessions, shared meals and creative activations.
Watch Video from “Think from Black”
A screening of Elegy — Lerato ‘Tambai’ Moloi was presented at the Johannesburg Art Gallery on January 28, 2023, as part of ‘Think from Black: a Lexicon’ — a transnational Black feminist convening presented by the Practicing Refusal Collective and the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class, University of Johannesburg. Watch Elegy
Photo Gallery from “Think from Black” Event
