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CONTACT: RIAN@BLACKBROWNBIENNALE.ORG

b. Houston, TX
has lived and worked in New Orleans, LA and Houston, TX 


BIO


Rian (raven) Crane (he/they/elle) is a organizer and post-disciplinary performance artist interested in black diasporic rebellion as an anti-thesis to borders, gender, and prisons. Their work explores the paradox of hypervisibility for black +/ trans folks as well as the ongoing genocidal settler project of anti-blackness, displacement, colonial-made borders and severed ties from the land. Their work posits black fugitivity as a refusal to the colonial imagination; they imagine blackness in relation to land, water, and nonhuman kindred. He collaborates with other artists and communities to counter isolation, individualism, and the hyper-productivity of End-capitalism.



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Bachelor of Arts from Loyola University of New Orleans: Philosophy | Film
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