Jibade-Khalil Huffman Poems For Every Occasion

Interdisciplinary artist Jibade-Khalil Huffman builds on a foundation rooted in poetry, synthesizing traditional and contemporary linguistic forms into a creative practice that employs multimedia platforms including videos, photographs, performances, and text-based works.

Poems For Every Occasion features recent videos and digital-based collages using Huffman’s personal archive of constructed images, text, and sounds, combined with an exhaustive database of pop culture material. In an era where daily life is mediated through our screens, Huffman’s work reveals the effects of a media-saturated environment on the American imagination, and transforms the ideas and aesthetics of mass communication into a socially informed artistic practice.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.