- Dissident Display
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Dissident Display (left) is located in a circa 1890 house.
Dissident DisplayWashington Post is a multimedia studio and gallery at 416 H Street NE in Washington, D.C.. Founded in 2005 by video artist Ayodamola Okunseinde,[1] graphic designer Adrian Loving, and filmmaker Eric Brewer.[2] Dissident Display is known for progressive multimedia content production and provocative art exhibitions. In addition to its commercial output, the studio also organizes and participates in exhibitions, film festivals and other creative endeavors in the contemporary arts community. Some of Dissident Display's clients include Motorola, Motown, Howard University, Saks Fifth Avenue, and New York Fashion Week.
The Dissident Display mission is to produce, present and promote aspects of contemporary arts in a variety of creative methods, based on a philosophy of post-modernist deconstruction, re-contextualization and presentation of the arts and cultural elements.
Dissident Display has three main departments:
- A multimedia production studio.
- An art gallery.
- A non-profit arts education organization.
List of Dissident Display Productions
September 2008 - Artist Talk/Performance State Dept. + Meridian International Center "Promoting Tolerance Through the Arts" (Holly Bass, Yoko K.)
September 2008 - Exhibition Space Invaders (Ayodamola Okunseinde, Adrian Loving, John Trevino, Holly Bass, Jefferson Pinder, Ayo Ngozi, Yoko K.)
May 2008 - Exhibition Black Rock City: Images by Osunlade (Osunlade)
April 2008 - Exhibition/Performance Move-ments: A Journey Through Dance From the Artists Perspective (Complementary Noise / Dissident Display)
September 2007 - Exhibition/Performance Wild Style (Charlie Ahearn Charlie Ahearn/ Chief Rocker Busy Bee)
May 2007 - Performance Underwater: live organic electronica, visual art and human sculpture that takes you out of your element (Dissident Display / Aphrodizia) - 14th & Church Street, Washington DC
April 2007 - Performance/Artist Talk Show and Prove: Hip Hop as Hybrid Culture (Holly Bass)
March 2007 - Artist Talk The Witner Years. Paintings, Drawings + Life in L.A. (John Trevino)
March 2007 - Forum The No F*******g talking about your non-profit job, art crit group! (Steve Frost)
March 2007 - Exhibition SCENE (at) NIGHT: Places, Performances and Personalities. (Jati Linsey) ADULT PLAYGROUND: Strip Club Stories in Words and Pictures. (Steven Cummings)
February 2007 - Screening/Art Forum The Function of Morphing Images in William Kentridge's "Drawing for Projection" (Benjamin Benus)
February 2007 - Exhibition Wonderland: Surrealism & Fashion (Yvonne Taylor / Matthew Taylor) Behind the Runway: Images From The Dissident Display Collection New York Fashion Week 2003-2006 (Dissident Display)
February 2007 - Exhibition Dissident Display presents: Aphrodizia: Seduce and Destroy (Dissident Display / Aphrodizia)
October 2006 - Exhibition Dissident Display Gallery Opening (Valentina Loi / Piero Passacantando / Steve Frost)
September 2006 - Exhibition Paris Review: 16 mm Film and Photography from Dissident Displays Paris Retreat (Dissident Display)
November 2008 Ayo vs Ayo - The Fela Remix - Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art - Washington, DC.
September 2008 Space Invaders - Dissident Display Gallery - Washington, DC.
September 2008 Tamarindo Recycles - Bar1 - Playa Tamarindo, Costa Rica.
August 2008 Quart Bag Show - Civilian Art Project - Washington, DC.
July 2008 Fare Well - The End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise! - Capital Fringe Festival, Washington DC.
June 2008 Fare Well - The End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise! - Utah Arts Festival - Salt Lake City, UT
June 2008 Contemporary& Urban Dance: Farewell - The Go Down Arts Centre - Nairobi, Kenya
May–September 2008 A People's Geography: The Spaces of African American Life - Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland - Baltimore, MD.
April 2008 Fare Well - The End of the World As We Know It OR Dancing Your Way to Paradise! - The George Washington University Marvin Center - Washington DC.
April 2008 Move-ments: A Journey Through Dance From the Artists Perspective - Dissident Display Studios & Gallery, Washington DC.
April 2008 Dance Works - Spring 2008 - The George Washington University / Marvin Center - Washington DC.
March 2008 FUGITIVE: ascription of false identity via electronic systems - Intended to Provoke: Social Action in Visual Culture[s]” - George Mason University, VA.
January 2008 2.8 1/3 Redux - (Dissident Display / Paul Miller AKA DJ Spooky) - Irvine Contemporary, Washington DC.
2008 24 Hour Film Project - A Little Stuntman - AIF Theater - Silver Spring, MD
November 2007 Ears.Eyes.Open Concert Series - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD.
April–May 2007 No Representation [abstraction in the capital] - Warehouse Theater Gallery, Washington DC.
2007, 2008 24 Hour Film Project - Dissident Threat - AIF Theater - Silver Spring, MD
April 2007 ColorFieldremix - Curators Office [1], Washington DC.
Notes
Coordinates: 38°54′1.5″N 76°59′59.3″W / 38.900417°N 76.999806°W
Categories:- Art galleries in Washington, D.C.
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