Blackspace : on the poetics of an afrofuture / Anaïs Duplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duplan, Anais, author.

Contributor:

Black Ocean, publisher.

Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund.

Series:

Undercurrents (Boston, Mass.)

Undercurrents

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Afrofuturism.

African American arts--21st century.

African American arts.

Arts, American--21st century.

Arts, American.

Aesthetics.

Liberty in art.

African American artists--Interviews.

African American artists.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 114 pages ; 18 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Black Ocean, [2020]

Summary:

"Black artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future. Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research by trans poet and curator Anaïs Duplan about the aesthetic strategies used by experimental artists of color since the 1960s to pursue liberatory possibility. Through a series of lyric essays, interviews with contemporary artists and writers of color, and ekphrastic poetry, Duplan deconstructs how creative people frame their relationships to the word, "liberation." With a focus on creatives who use digital media and language-as-technology--luminaries like Actress, Juliana Huxtable, Lawrence Andrews, Tony Cokes, Sondra Perry, and Nathaniel Mackey--Duplan offers three lenses for thinking about liberation: the personal, the social, and the existential. Arguing that true freedom is impossible without considering all three, the book culminates with a personal essay meditating on the author's own journey of gender transition while writing the book." -- Publisher's description

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Paradigms for Liberation

Communication After Refusal: The Turn to Love & Polyvocality

Black Screen

New Black Music is This

The Moon's Silent Modulation

My Virtual Pussy, My Artificial Lungs

Making Use of the Mundane: Black Performance & Becoming

Ghettoville

Permission to Speak

We Did Not Originate in the Cosmos

What Tomorrow Sounds Like.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund.

ISBN:

9781939568328

1939568323

OCLC:

1192325691

Publisher Number:

99987490799