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The last place they thought of / editor, Daniella Rose King.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Modern--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Art, Modern.
- Women, Black--United States--Social conditions--Exhibitions.
- Women, Black.
- Geography--Psychological aspects--Exhibitions.
- Geography.
- Human geography--Exhibitions.
- Human geography.
- African diaspora--Exhibitions.
- African diaspora.
- Psychological aspects.
- Geography--Psychological aspects.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Geography--Psychological aspects--Exhibitions.
- United States.
- Women, Black--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 106 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, [2020]
- Summary:
- "The Last Place They Thought Of explores how geographical, ideological and spatial paradigms determine and reproduce uneven social relations. Four artists - Torkwase Dyson, Lorraine O'Grady, Jade Montserrat, and Keisha Scarville - take very different approaches to this phenomenon, deeply considering how histories of racial, sexual, and economic exploitation have shaped our understanding of geography, and the realities of our environment. Through abstraction, performance, and fiction, this intergenerational group of artists conspire with a cadre of writers, including Katherine McKittrick, from whom the exhibition title was borrowed. Illuminating histories of black women's liberation, resistance and concealment throughout the black diaspora, this exhibition creates a discursive locus to reconsider geographic space; as it pertains to the environment and our changing climate, how it regulates the production and performance of identity, and upholds material and metaphorical borders and boundaries. -- McKittrick herself was referencing Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, an autobiographical narrative of Harriet Jacobs's protracted escape from bondage, hiding in “the last place they thought of”; the crawl space of her grandmother's attic. Literal and rhetorical marginalization, being in the last place is an experiential geography of black gendered bodies. This exhibition and accompanying publication seeks to explore the possibility of different, critical engagements with geography through the lens of black female subjectivities and feminisms"--Gallery website.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Amy Sadao
- Acknowledgements / Daniella Rose King
- Geographies of domination, transatlantic slavery, diaspora / Katherine McKittrick
- The last place they thought of / Daniella Rose King
- Installation photos
- How bodily geography can be; The margin: Black feminism and geography
- Vantapower / Treva Ellison.
- Notes:
- Artists: Torkwase Dyson, Jade Montserrat, Lorraine O'Grady, Keisha Scarville.
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition curated by Daniella Rose King and organized and presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, April 27-August 12, 2018.
- Edition of 750.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780884541424
- 0884541428
- 0884541452
- 9780884541455
- OCLC:
- 1202738942
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