Courtesy the Artists is a collaboration between Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade, based in New York. Courtesy the Artists invites artists and others to interpret, react to, and enjoy historical texts that inform present creative conditions. Segade and Gaines are members of the group My Barbarian, which has performed and exhibited extensively. Their work is currently on view in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, where they performed an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s agitprop play The Mother. Courtesy the Artists performances include Songs of the Civil War, Studio Museum in Harlem (June 2014), Choir Practice, Recess (December 2013), 24-Hour Ballad, Recess (November 2013), Night Music, Recess (October 2013), and The Meeting, MoMA P.S.1 (October 2012). These projects were made with contributors including Niv Acosta, Gregg Bordowitz, Latasha Nevada Diggs, Adrienne Edwards, Charles Gaines, Miguel Gutierrez, Nick Hallett, Vishal Jugdeo, Christine Sun Kim, Simone Leigh, Thomas Lax, Sara Magenheimer, Sam Greenleaf Miller, Hiroshi McDonald Mori, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Tavia Nyong’o, Jeanine Oleson, Adam Pendleton, Katy Pyle, Matana Roberts, Marina Rosenfeld, Xaviera Simmons, Samita Sinha, Saya Woolfalk, Geo Wyeth, and others.