This is a process on looking for the quiet and quotidian / the gentle and interior ways blackness exists outside the paradigm of the public and political. In these notes on tenderness I am calling attention to the ways blackness exist as a sign / as a stand in for expressive and resistant ideologies. Indeed nearly all of what has been written about blackness assumes that black culture is, or should be, identified by resistant expressiveness – a response to racial oppression, a speaking back to the dominant ideology…” 4 “There is not much that can be said about blackness as a public discourse. What is left to say about black subjectivity in contemporary art? “and feel myself in all places … the custodian of a black body, and have to find language for all of what that means to me and to the people who look at me.” 3 There are always implications when using a black body. There is too much suggestion in simplified gestures of depicting black identity that is read as intentional subtlety but is ultimately a reliance on what blackness does for a work of art, the political or contemporary timeliness it provides.
Overlooking the need and responsibility to say more and express more. Subjectivity is fluid / changing and shifting / an ever evolving method of looking / on looking.īlack subjectivity in art often seems to move at an almost languid or listless pace.
An attempt/ to move beyond the public and political meanings of what blackness evokes These are notes on tenderness / a brief anthology, collecting remnants, flesh memory of blackness as soft and varied. The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity The Local Is Not Defined by Proximity
0 kommentar(er)
