Opening Night Party | Rashid Zakat: Revival!

Overview

Celebrate the opening of the 29th annual Philadelphia Fringe Festival with us at Fringe Bar!

Filmmaker and artist Rashid Zakat will perform Revival! A benevolent interruption in public space, Revival! feels like walking into a dance party and DJ set. This audio-visual meditation attempts to reimagine and practice what collective joy and resilience look like in times of crisis. Using aural- and image-based motifs from the African diaspora, the artist reverberates the intimacies and pleasures of shared spiritual experiences from across time and place. Black aliveness is the political imperative of this piece: an invitation to be candid, loud, playful, and to revel in the glory of communal excitement and civic joy.

About the Artist

Rashid Zakat is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and dj. His work over the past two decades
consists of short films, documentaries, music videos, internet art, photography, dance parties
and installations.

Black social aliveness is the political imperative of Rashid’s work, disrupting the systemic
containment of Black people and centering their urgencies, curiosities, ways of relating to one
another and collective expression. He seeks for audiences to be loud, enlivened and to revel in
the glory of communicable excitement and pleasure.

Rashid has been exhibited by Black Star Projects, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Fabric
Workshop in Philadelphia, The Portland Museum of Art, Critical Distance Center, The Leonard
Pearlstein Gallery, Mural Arts Philadelphia, Common Field, The Black Soil Film Festival, The
Lenfest Institute, The Barnes Foundation, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The Wave
Farm, Movement 4 Black Lives, Theater In Exile, The Black Library and many more.
He has been generously supported by The Independence Media Foundation, The Pennsylvania
Council for the Humanities, The Velocity Fund and is a 2021 Pew Fellow.