Dread Scott works in a range of media: performance, installation, photography, video, screen-print and painting. The thread that connects his work is an engagement with sharp social questions confronting humanity and a desire to push formal and conceptual boundaries. (Excerpt and images below selected from grant proposal. All works are copyright of the artist.)
Harpo Foundation is pleased to provide Mr. Scott with a direct artist grant to assist his production and development of new work.
Documentation of “On the Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Genocide and Slavery,” a performance by Dread Scott, 2014. Project produced by More Art. Photographed by Mark Von Holden 
“On the Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide,” 2014, performance, duration 22 minutes 
“…Or Does it Explode?” 2009; Duratrans, Lightboxes, spoken word audio; 16 x 28 x 1 feet; The audio is interviews with youth in the photographs who articulate their dreams and reveal obstacles and challenges to those aspirations. 
“Stop,” 2012, 2-channel HD projected video, RT 7:16. The installation is a projection on two opposite walls of young adults from East New York Brooklyn and Liverpool UK who have been stopped numurous times by the police. In the video each repeatedly states the number of times they have been stopped. 
“Wanted,” 2014, community based project: performance, meetings, Wanted posters 
Documentation of Wanted project. Wanted is a community-based art project that address the criminalization of youth, particularly Black and Latino youth, in America. Fake wanted posters were created for non-illegal activity that the police routinely harass the youth for. These were posted in many shop windows in Harlem, NY.