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Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duplan, Anais, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists' writings.
- Artists.
- Performance art.
- Sociology.
- Artists' Writing.
- Genre:
- Discursive works
- Interviews
- Essay Collection.
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified], 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."-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- Standard Copyright.
- Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).
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