THE BLOCK (2020)
ARCH 4010 | FALL 2020
INSTRUCTION:
PROF ELGIN CLECKLEY
The Block (2020) is an active retelling of African
American history, in which the spatialized and
immersive reconstruction of Romare Bearden’s
“The Block” (1971) assembles experiences
from various American cities transcending
time within a single Harlem Block composition.
Visitors play the roles of spectators, subjects
within collaged spaces of Isabelle Wilkerson’s
“The Wamth of Other Suns”, and even the artist
themselves, empathizing with the daily life
experiences and emotions of individual times
places and people of the Great Migration while
unveiling and celebrating the shared realities
throughout.