Spacebuster - The Summoning 2017
On the occasion of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation’s collaboration with Raumlaborberlin’s SPACEBUSTER “We Like America Tour 2017,” St. Louis-based artist Basil Kincaid led a performance titled The Summoning – a participatory ritual of active memory-making that invited members of the community to share pieces of their clothing that were ultimately stitched by themselves and the artist into a communal quilt.
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Basil Kincaid
Basil Kincaid (b. 1986, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American artist who honors and evolves traditional practices through quilting, collaging, photography, installation and performance. Implementing materials vested with emotional and memorial content, Kincaid allows these mediums to function as spiritual technology that forward various wisdoms born from Kincaid’s greatest values: family, imagination, rest, and experience.
Born in St. Louis Missouri in 1986.
Lives and works in Accra, Ghana and St. Louis, Missouri.
