Garrett Bradley and Arthur Jafa: a Negro, a Lim-o (2022) 

Production | Exhibition Grant

a Negro, a Lim-o (2022) is a collaborative video work by Garrett Bradley and Arthur Jafa that evokes the spirit of Just Above Midtown (JAM)–a gallery founded by artist Linda Goode Bryant in 1964 as a self-described laboratory foregrounding the work of African American artists and other artists of color. Garrett Bradley and Arthur Jafa have collaborated to make two films, installed and projected as being in dialogue with one another. Derived from each artists’ personal relationship with JAM, JAM archival material, conversations, and original footage, a Negro, a Lim-o (2022) serves as the  inaugural commission for Project EATS Art Inside/Out to be shown on Project EATS farms in Brownsville and on the Lower East Side as well as on private local community networks established by and surrounding Project EATS Farms in the Bronx, NY and Brooklyn, NY as an extension of the MoMA exhibition Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces on view October 6, 2022–February 18, 2023.  Project EATS’ presentation of a Negro, a Limo- (2022) reaches beyond gallery walls– presenting within the nexus of an incredibly racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse New York City public with the everyday opportunity for nearby residents to engage with art even just by looking out of their windows.