dadaLab will host the 7th annual Burn and Bury Confederate Flag: 2022 on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30 at 2PM, hosted by John Sims and featuring Chas Moore, co-founder of the Austin Justice Coalition, performance artist Dragonfly, and poet/writer Brooke Elise Axtell. A potluck reception will follow.
In 2015, Sims made a national call to burn and bury Confederate flags in response to the Charleston Nine Murders, to confront the legacy of American slavery and honor the memory of social justice soldiers who fought against slavery, for Civil Rights, and fight against current institutional and cultural white supremacy. This led to the creation of the annual Burn and Bury Memorial Day event, The Burn and Bury Video Anthem and a Burn and Bury Confederate Flag Support Kit .This annual performance seeks to create a new ritual for all Americans to engage in a moment and space of healing and transformation. For more on this project, see Sims’ CNN OP-ED piece, Don't Resurrect the Confederacy- de-Zombify it. For the live stream visit johnsimsprojects.com/live.
John Sims, John Sims, a Detroit native, Sarasota based multimedia artist, writer, and activist who creates art and curatorial projects spanning the areas of installation, performance, text, music, film, and large-scale activism, informed by mathematics, design, the politics of white supremacy, sacred symbols/anniversaries, and poetic/political text. For 20 years he has been working on the forefront of contemporary mathematical art and leading the national pushback on Confederate iconography.
Currently, he is Resident Artist at the La Mama Experimental Theater Club in NYC, and at the Ringling Museum, where he developed the new performance piece 2020: (Di)Visions of America. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, NBC News, USA Today, US News/World Report,NPR, The Guardian, ThinkProgress, Al Jazeera, Art in America, Sculpture, Hyperallergic, New Art Examiner, Science News, Nature and Scientific American. He has written for CNN, Al Jazeera, Tampa Bay Times, Detroit Free Press, The Huffington Post, Guernica Magazine, and The Rumpus and TheGrio.
