... Swiss Nigerian composer Charles Uzor’s work Bodycam Exhibit 3: George Floyd in Memoriam provides an opening to begin theorizing Black lives and antiblackness in Switzerland. In the global Black Lives Matter protests, Floyd’s murder became linked, in Switzerland, to the case of Mike Ben Peter...

... This chapter returns to Uzor’s Bodycam Exhibit 3 to uncover what emerges in this piece when thinking and listening in this transformed way, as the previous chapters have proposed. Bodycam Exhibit 3 problematizes the structure of the archive, sovereignty, and narrativization through its...

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... The postface is a final reflection on the continued relevance of Charles Uzor’s works for George Floyd in relation to the current issues around antiblackness in the world, and specifically also in Switzerland. This includes the more general aim of the author to demonstrate how in the very all...