Features

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.

Type:
Reviews
Source:
Summer 2024
Location:
New Orleans, LA
Credit:
Text / Sherae Rimpsey

Letters to My Friends: Indigenous Land as Monument

Being an academic, I am often more interested in ideas than in the visceral. The idea of what creates a visceral reaction, the how, the why, the what, and then what transpires, preoccupies my busy mind. My therapist prescribed returning to my body, in any way that I can. So, a monument really has to be something to grab my attention.

Type:
Features
Source:
Fall 2023
Credit:
Text / omeasoo wahpasiw