Cultural Compass
PEREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI (PAMM)
Moses Sumney is the headliner for the Signature Art Week celebration ‘PAMM Presents.’
PAMM Presents
Interdisciplinary artist and musician Moses Sumney is the headliner for PAMM Presents, the museum’s signature Miami Art Week celebration. The event is co-presented with UTA and will take place at PAMM on Thursday, December 2, from 8pm to 11pm.
The evening will feature three activations by Sumney, including a screening of the artist’s upcoming film, Blackalachia; the debut of new self-portraits by the artist; and a live performance by Sumney, whose album græ was dubbed one of the greatest albums of 2020 by The New York Times, Pitchfork, and Rolling Stone. Guests from the worlds of art, fashion, business, and philanthropy, including PAMM members and donors, can expect to enjoy cocktails, live music, and dancing on the museum’s waterfront terrace throughout the evening.
“We are thrilled to present PAMM Presents this year with UTA and my dear friend Arthur Lewis, who continually catapults pioneers of contemporary culture into the spotlight,” said PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. “We are honored to host Moses Sumney — an exceptional musician and artist who embodies the unique diversity of the crowd this event brings in annually, as well as Miami’s rich cultural landscape. The creativity and openness Moses offers up through his art and music mirrors the vision of community and inclusivity that PAMM embraces and strives towards as an institution.”
Prior to PAMM Presents, Sumney will present an exclusive, invite-only screening in PAMM’s Auditorium of Blackalachia, his new film recorded in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains which makes its world premiere on December 8. Following the film debut will be a live Q&A with Sumney and PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. If you are interested in attending the screening, please email Ali Rigo (ali@culturalcounsel.com). In the Vattikuti Learning Theater, Sumney will present a new collection of large-scale self-portraits taken on film.
“As an artist who strives to break barriers of genre and boundaries of access, it’s an incredible honor to collaborate with UTA and Miami’s flagship art museum PAMM for my inaugural Basel experience. Along with performing, I’ll be sharing some personal artworks that I’ve held bashfully close to my chest for some time. I couldn’t have asked for a more graceful advocate than PAMM, whose curation and programming align acutely with my vision for the world,” said Moses Sumney.
“Moses Sumney is a talent beyond any constrictions of media or genre and we are so excited to play a part in this spectacular, multilayered project he has created for PAMM Presents,” said Arthur Lewis, UTA Partner & Creative Director of UTA Fine Arts/Artist Space. “I cannot wait to see Miami’s vibrant community embrace him and his artistic vision.”
The museum’s Art Week Highlights
In addition to PAMM Presents, the museum’s Art Week Highlights include the opening of Zhivago Duncan: Pretentious Crap installation on Tuesday, November 30, Across the Afro Diasporas, a discussion co-hosted by Miami-based gallery El Espacio 23 on Wednesday, December 1, led by PAMM Curator Maria Elena Ortiz and Zimbabwean-born assistant-curator at Zeitz MOCAA, Tandazani Dhlakama; an Artist-Led Tour by Marco Brambilla on Friday, December 3, featuring his exhibition Heaven’s Gate; and an Indigenous Contemporary Art Panel, featuring leading indigenous voices and activists Houston Cypress and Khadija Cypress, the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum’s Assistant director Durante Blais-Billie, Chilean artist Felipe Mujica, and PAMM Curator Jennifer Inacio on Saturday, December 4.
Marco Brambilla
Get an insider’s view of Heaven’s Gate with a special conversation and opportunity for discussion with artist Marco Brambilla and PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. Heaven’s Gate is a monumental new work by video artist Marco Brambilla. A lavish, satirical, and vertigo-inducing meditation on the Hollywood ‘Dream Factory,’ Heaven’s Gate is a work of digital psychedelia employing the same state-of-the-art computer compositing technology as the films it references. December 3, 1 pm.
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
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