My Existential Limits To the Rectification of Past Wrongs

My Existential Limits To the Rectification of Past Wrongs
Tiona Nekkia McClodden

A digital project, part of Risk Pool

Tiona Nekkia McClodden is a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work explores and critiques issues at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality and social commentary. Her interdisciplinary approach traverses documentary film, experimental video, sculpture, and sound installations. McClodden has exhibited and screened work at the Institute of Contemporary Art-Philadelphia, the Museum of Modern Art (New York); the Whitney Museum; MOCA LA; Art Toronto’s VERGE Video program; MCA Chicago; MoMA PS1; the Museum of Contemporary Art (Cleveland); Kansai Queer Film Festival in Osaka and Kyoto, Japan; and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival; among others. Her work will be featured in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. McClodden has been awarded the 2018–19 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism at Bard College, the 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the 2016 Pew Fellowship in the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, among other awards. McClodden curated the traveling exhibitions A Recollection. + Predicated. featured within Julius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental, an interdisciplinary, retrospective project that examined the life, work, and resurgent influence of the composer and pianist. She lives and works in North Philadelphia, PA.

“My Existential Limits to the Rectification of Past Wrongs, Or, So If You See Me Crying, It’s Just a Sign That I’m Still Alive” was published as part of Triple Canopy’s Internet As Material project area, which receives support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Opaline Fund of the Jewish Community Endowment Federation and Endowment Fund. Issue 24, Risk Pool, was made possible through the generous support of VIA Art Fund.

Tags: Artist Project, Essay, History, Identity

24 Risk Pool

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