• Dreaming South
  • Artist Statement
  • Outsider preservation initiative
  • FOLK FEST 2023
  • Coffee//Koolaid & the tabernacle of rememory
  • Vestiges Heritage Project
  • MEDIA ARCHIVE
  • MEMORY MATTER(S)
    • Heritage Preservation think board
  • Collaborative Explorations
  • Heritage Settlement Retreat
  • quantum-ecology
  • Performance Index
  • Artist Fellowship with the Crossroads Project at Princeton’s Center for Culture, Society, and Religion Portfolio
  • Southern Android Heritage House
  • THE INBETWEEN SPACES
  • Heritage Preservation Initiatives
  • Dreaming South
  • Artist Statement
  • Outsider preservation initiative
  • FOLK FEST 2023
  • Coffee//Koolaid & the tabernacle of rememory
  • Vestiges Heritage Project
  • MEDIA ARCHIVE
  • MEMORY MATTER(S)
    • Heritage Preservation think board
  • Collaborative Explorations
  • Heritage Settlement Retreat
  • quantum-ecology
  • Performance Index
  • Artist Fellowship with the Crossroads Project at Princeton’s Center for Culture, Society, and Religion Portfolio
  • Southern Android Heritage House
  • THE INBETWEEN SPACES
  • Heritage Preservation Initiatives
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                          Viktor L. Ewing | Givens 

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IG: SouthernAndroid00 
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Education 
2017 Masters of Fine Arts at Columbia College Chicago Interdisciplinary Arts Book and Paper 
2015 Masters of Arts Interdisciplinary Arts , Columbia College Chicago 
2010 Fisk University Bachelors of Arts Sociology : Art , Nashville TN 
Vanderbilt University Institute for International Education Scholar international fellowship: 
  • 2011 Edna Manely College of Performance and Visual Arts Kingston, Jamaica 
  • 2009 Universidade Federal da Bahia Salvador , State of Bahia , Brazil 2008 University of Ghana Accra Legon Accra, Ghana 
  • 2008 Howard University, Washington DC 
  • 2007 Rust College , The Gambia, West Africa Introduction to Departure, a cross pollination study 

Advisory Board member to the Mary Allen Museum of African American Arts and History, Crockett TX


2025
  • Mississippi Center for cultural production Fellow 
  • In the Name of the Mother tree Jupiter performance studio  Apollo Theater Harlem NY 
  • Fisk University 91st Spring Arts Festival Readers Series Nashville TN
  • Black Artist Retreat Houston TX 
  • Black Houston's Symposium  Rice University Houston TX 
  • Cowboy Sunday Folk Fest

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2024
  • More than watermelon: Juneteenth Observation intervention  Museum Fine arts Houston TX
  • Immersion Ritual Theatre: Constellation// Links Hall,  Chicago IL 
  • Sipp Culture: cultural crossroads intensive, Utica MS         
  • Black Sacred Arts Conference: MUDFISH Yale University New Haven, CT
  • In the Name of the Mother Tree Jupiter Performance Studios , Harlem, NY 
  • Black Houston's Symposium: Center for Engaged research, Rice University Houston TX 
  • Dah Blues womens dirge, Wooters Library Crockett TX 
  • Concrete Rose photo retrospect of PAtric Mccoy , Lyric Opera House, Chicago IL 
  • At  first glance, Blanc Gallery, Chicago IL 
  • Who lit the Fire: Contemporary Art Center New Orleans LA 
  • Folk Fest “ keep on keepin’ on “ Kindred Books
  • Rice University Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative learning
  • The Keeping, Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn NY Public


2023
  • Black Sacred arts Conference “ Vernacular Sublime: Domestic
  • space as sanctuary” Yale University, New HavenCT
  • Black Houston Symposium” Beyond Concrete Routes and
  • Roots: Rural Urban cultural cross pollination : Rice University Houston TX
  • Sankofa as Praxis: African American Research Center at the Gregory School
  • “Curious Corner of Viktor le” interactive educational installation, Wooters Library Crockett TX

2022
  • Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona Spain 
  • Munch Museum, Oslo Norway “ Keep hope Alive” a sonic Jamm 
  • Bourse de Commerce w/ Ideal Trouble Festival “ chilled my body but not my soul” 
  • Daughter of the Temple: University of Houston Opera House 
  • Coffee// Koolaid and the Tabernacle of ( re)memory Community Artist’s Collective Houston TX 
  • Til dah wata Comes: Community arts procession meditation: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Museum of Fine arts Houston TX 


2021 
  • Afro Atlantic histories research residency: Southern Android Institute: San Juan Puerto Rico 
  • Contemporary Arts Museum Heritage Auction; Houston TX 
  • Black Spatial Relics Annual Convening: Digital Libation Series 009009: “ In the End it will all change the same” 
  • Heritage House Resident arts Module: Southern Android
  • Institute: Crockett TX 
  • Tabernacles and Altars- IRL Performance Center New York NY 
  • Lets go Out and Play- Roulette Performance lab- Ganavya Doraiswamy New York NY 
  • Followin’ dah spanish moss : an Eatonville research intensive: Southern Android Institute: Eatonville Florida 


2020 
  • Freedom Summer Visual Mix Tape: CAHM Lab artist residency Intensive: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston TX 
  • Mothership 9: Virtual Exodus: The great Cosmic Migration Digital Performance Saloon: Elastic Arts, Chicago IL 
  • In Search for Lucille: Ancestral Reverence Intensive, Carson House Plantation Marion NC 
  • Brown Ecologies Residency Retreat: Esperanza Spalding Productions: Tygh Valley Oregon 
  • Jubilee 11213: Black Spatial Relics MicroGrant for Community Care Performance Research Digital Saloon Lab NY 
  • Inter//Stellar: Devised Digital Theater: National Black Theater & NYU Tisch School of Drama NY 
  • Requiem for Jazz: University of Chicago: SunDance film Festival Documentary: Angel Bat Dawid and tha Brotha Hood 
  • Heritage Settlements Retreat: North Star 'nd Associates: Southern Android
  • Institute Crockett TX 
  • Beyond Space exhibition : Detroit Carr Center : Curator Carrie Mae Weems / Anita Bateman 
  • Revival: Detroit Carr Center: Performance Cultural Arts intensive: Southern Android Productions 
  • Black Artist Retreat: Armory New York City: : Theaster Gates Curator 
  • REACH Festival Kennedy Center: Washington DC; Carrie Mae Weems curator 
2019 
  • The Spirit that Resides: 13th Havana Biennale : Magnan Gallery: Carrie Mae Weems 
  • Black Spatial Relics Conference 
  • Beyond Space exhibition & symposium, Detroit Carr Center Le Guess Who? Jazz Festival Utrecht NL 
  • ReWire International Festival: The Hauge NL 
  • Hyde Park Jazz Festival: Chicago IL 
  • Jazz Fest Berlin 
  • Uber Jazz Festival: We are Starzz: Hamburg Germany 
  • Beyond Space symposium, Detroit Carr Center 
2018 
  • Mo’lasses (re)enactment Fisk University Spring Arts Festival Nashville TN Song of Solomon a Opera , Co-prosperity lab , Chicago IL Recollection recall: afrofututrity Google Fiber Nashville TN In search of my familiar Southside Community Arts Center Chicago IL 
2017 
  • Remnants of a Dream: Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, Recalled Recollections Ancestral Lore: DuSable Museum, Chicago IL LIT: Mo’lasses: MFA Thesis Exhibition: Book and Paper Gallery Columbia College Chicago. 
  • Black Box : An Afrofuturist Opus : LeRoy Nemian Center, School of the Art Institute 
  • Old Black magic, Chicago Art Department ACRE residency Exhibition, Chicago IL 
  • The Revival :Chicago Home Theater Festival, 4H gallery , Chicago IL 
2016 
  • The in-between spaces; Black Matter, Black Magic, Black Manhood: Root Work Gallery, Chicago 
  • Before I wake: Elastic Arts Center. ,Chicago IL, Washington Park Eliza’s Peculiar cabin of Curiosities: ; Lynden Sculptural Garden Milwaukee WI. Black Art; Ancestral Legacy; Civic Center of Crockett, Dallas Museum of Art 
  • 88th annual Fisk University Spring Arts Festival : Alfred Steglitz Gallery, Nashville 
  • Ancient Futurity: Afro-futurism Conference , The New School New York Sugah’ Another kind of sweet: BING arts incubator, University of Chicago Conjuring tomorrow: an immersive exhibition. C33 Gallery,Chicago IL Aint’ I, She a Woman Ain’t she: Hunter International Gallery 
2015 
  • Engage/ Connect: Anthropological Mixed Tape Performance saloon : HAUS Creative Arts Center, Columbia College 
  • Black Intersectionality Critique University of Chicago , Arts Incubator ,Chicago IL, 
  • Ancestors Wake ,College Art Association Video Art Graduate Saloon ,New York 
  • Connect/Engage , Arcade Gallery Department of Exhibition and Performance Spaces Columbia College 

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I excite when I hear read watch once lived story poems of emancipation's Jubilation--cotton picking plucked in burlap sacs full of weevils wobbling 'bout the treacherous bulb-- drifted on the shores of the Atlantic in the bosom of Osun where cakes were offerings of meal tilled and readied by han-- the stars and mathematics--rituals and villages filled with shoes made for walking the nomadic tribes --the drifters the seeds--  it all reminds me of my reason, gives possibility on as to how life was simplicity tightly wove sewn crocheted into complexity, cause those living then considered what life living would be fore me in the now."

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