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Uzor’s first work for George Floyd, 8′46″ George Floyd in Memoriam, presents a way to theorize blackness at the intersection of the aesthetic, the social, and philosophy. Uzor’s 8′46″ George Floyd in Memoriam is paired with an analogous work in the visual domain by German Ghanian, Swiss-based artist Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah titled White Gaze II Black Square. These artworks engage a history of painting and musical works, as well as philosophical discourses, that question the relation between a subject and an object. The author unfurls such investigation alongside Fred Moten’s influential essay “The Case of Blackness.” Ultimately, the artworks open the possibility to theorize Black lives and blackness even within spaces that claim to be race free and within antiblackness.

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