Biography

Sage Ni’Ja Whitson (NY/LA) is a multi award-winning queer trans artist and futurist, noted by Brooklyn Magazine as a culture influencer. They are a United States Artist Fellow, Creative Capital and two-time "Bessie" Awardee who engages transdisciplinarity through a critical intersection of the sacred and conceptual in Black Queer Transembodiedness. They are a sought-after speaker, consultant, presenter, and masterclass facilitator whose offerings have been shared among notable institutions including: Princeton, Cornell, Theatre Academy in Helsinki, and UNESCO. Whitson received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a second MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College.

Project: The Unarrival Experiments

“How do you see something you can’t see?”

“What if Blackness refused to arrive and exists in the unarrival?”

“What is the nature of antebecoming?”

The Unarrival Experiments is a constellation of art/works, that, in dialogue with Yorùbá Cosmology, Astrophysics, and research on the “blackest black,” the work centers the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy through a Black, Queer, and Transembodied lens. While at Camargo, Whitson will be working with local astrophysicist Marceau Limousín toward developing a book and performance work.