BLK MLK — garrett allen

BLK MLK (blackmilk) (in development)
created by Garrett Allen and Kyle Carrero Lopez
directed by Garrett Allen

Garrett Allen and Kyle Carrero Lopez’s Blackmilk—stylized BLK MLK—employs live and video performance to explore how we exist as Black, queer men and non-binary folks in our era of increasingly-complicated identity politics, though an outlandish, multi-sensory, weblike series of episodic questionings. On the 30th anniversary of Tongues Untied, Allen & Lopez draw upon the seminal Marlon Riggs film, QPOC-centered party spaces, & Jay-Z in pursuit of divining what complete belonging and self-affirming love might feel like beyond a world that demands your segmentation.

BLK MLK had a developmental production at Spectrum NYC, May 2019

with Garrett Allen, Arewa Basit, Darby Davis, Nile Harris, Kyle Carrero Lopez Aaron Ricks, Marcus “Zebra” Smith, and Zhetut
sound + video | Garrett Allen
lights | Garrett Allen and Dan Prosky

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Garrett performed excepts of BLK MLK as part of the exhibition “Not Straight, Not White” at School of the Visual Arts, curated by David Hanlon.