Month: August 2024
Tiffany Smith: Back Home
During my first meeting with artist Tiffany Smith, she showed me a photograph of her grandmother. It was a black-and-white...
Gestures of Refusal:
Black Photography and Visual Culture
Gestures of Refusal: Black Photography and Visual Culture is the third installment in the Seeing Black1 series curated by Shana M. griffin. Currently on view at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, Gestures is vast and disarming. Before going, I wondered what it would look like: refusing / reiterating / recognizing a way of recounting (all) the ways that we appear to one another—as artists, as humans—swept up in the throes of Blackness. Recognizing. Reiterating. Refusing.
Africatown
My first visit to Africatown was by way of US Highway 90 and the Cochrane-Africatown Bridge, which spans the Mobile...
A Site of Evanescence
How do you perform with an endangered fish? By becoming imperceptible. How do you become imperceptible? By finding the point...
Tirzo Martha: Things in Perpetual Becoming
Tirzo Martha is an artist based in Curaçao and the founder of Instituto Bueno Bista (IBB). I traveled to Curaçao...