5:30 PM Cash bar
6:30 PM Lecture Hall opens
7 PM Lecture from artist John Akomfrah
The Nasher Museum presents acclaimed British filmmaker John Akomfrah, 2017 winner of the UK’s Artes Mundi Prize, who will discuss his new three-channel video Precarity, which tells the story of the near-mythological jazz figure Buddy Bolden of New Orleans. The Nasher Museum co-commissioned the video, which premiered at Prospect.4 in New Orleans, and is a major exhibition on view at the Nasher Museum, March 29 through August 26, 2018.