HAUS FÜR POESIE

Sage Ni’Ja Whitson is a Queer & Transgender artist who works across media. Via “The Unarrival Experiments”, Whitson’s multi-form epic on dark matter and dark energy, they exemplify a critical intersection of the sacred and conceptual in science, technology, art, and text. Whitson has received numerous international awards including a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Visual Arts Award and Creative Capital Award. They are currently a professor of Black Study at the University of California, Riverside, recently serving as the department’s inaugural chair (2023-2025).