ECHOES Episode 8
ECHOES is a monthly series where we spotlight our community of contributors—writers and artists who’ve been central to Art Papers creative and rigorous coverage over the years. New episodes release the last Saturday of each month and are available on Youtube and Spotify.
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This month, we revisit a conversation between artist and writer Christopher Robert Jones and writer Logan Lockner. They discuss the film Blue by Derek Jarman, the focus of Christopher’s contribution to the Summer 2021 issue, Speculative Masculinities. Christopher’s piece is titled Blue Cripistemologies: In and Around Derek Jarman. Christopher and Logan also discuss the films of Marlon Riggs’, specifically Tongues Untied and Black Is…Black Ain’t. They consider how all these films, along with other works, have and are being historicized and how this process is happening with the works themselves but also with the cultural phenomena they are responding too, namely the HIV/AIDs crisis.
Christopher Robert Jones is an artist and writer based in Illinois. They are a Research Assistant Professor in the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the co-founder of Crip*—Cripistemology and the Arts, a creative research project centered around cripistemological approaches to creative production, pedagogy, and applied research.
Logan Lockner is a writer, editor, and critic. He writes about contemporary art, film, and books for publications including 032c, Art in America, ART PAPERS, frieze, and GAYLETTER, and hosts the radio show In Conclusion: A Review of Reviews on Montez Press Radio. He contributed to the artist monograph TOYIN OJIH ODUTOLA: THE UMUEZE AMARA CLAN AND THE HOUSE OF OBAFEMI (Rizzoli Electa, 2021). Previously, he was editor of the Atlanta-based magazine Burnaway. He has written texts for exhibitions at galleries such as Bodega, New York; Lehmann Maupin, New York; Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York; and DOCUMENT, Chicago.