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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 34–47.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Christopher Law Abstract This article explores how two key problems of philosophical aesthetics, temporality and form, are rethought in Fred Moten's consent not to be a single being trilogy. The article proposes that Moten's work is notable for its refusal to affirm a link between aesthetic...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 86–95.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Fahima Ife Abstract An excerpt from an experimental series, “Grief Aesthetics” is a lyrical essay on intimacy and writing. The essay participates in the double black study of eroding and composing a new sentence, a new sentence sounded in refusal (of the social pact of writing, of grammar), a new...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 98–117.
Published: 01 April 2022
... on the erasure of Black liveness alongside such erasure, while also listening to those composers and aesthetes that are erased when we do not listen for their breathing. (Black) breathing is channeled into/through instruments, making it musical, and through these sonic transmutations of states of matter...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 78–97.
Published: 01 April 2023
... trans sex worker who became infamous in 1836 following her arrest in New York City, as producing a black trans aesthetic of brokenness. Using a collage style of placing distinct frames upon frames, Tourmaline mixes speculative retellings of Jones's life alongside archival footage of Latina trans...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 75–88.
Published: 01 April 2021
... practitioners of African origin, liquidity is addressed here as a curatorial category, denoting a shared versatility of practice, and in aesthetic, geographic, and temporal terms. Aesthetic strategies such as the use of water as a thematic device and of music to weave a tapestry of auditory affinities across...
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Published: 01 October 2024
FIGURE 18. The ornamental aesthetics of Dr. Coghill's ($kalyncoghill) nails. Everyday Black Matter (Chaz Barracks, 2020). Frame grab. More
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 50–83.
Published: 01 April 2022
... tropical ecology in her practice. Within what Anzinger terms an “aesthetic syntax,” the mirror is a catalyst around which her abstract compositions—which include paint, clay, synthetic hair, and Aloe barbadensis plants—conceptualize a racialized and gendered self that emerges from the reflective...
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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 2. An example of the aesthetic form of Salacia where smaller frames sit on a static background. Tourmaline, Salacia (2019). 16 mm, digital video, sound. Frame grab. Courtesy of the artist and Chapter NY, New York. More
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Published: 01 April 2024
Figure 6. Denise Ferreira da Silva's “modern ethical scene of value.” Exchange as an aesthetic problem and a problem for aesthetics. More
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 28–43.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Jasmine A. Moore Abstract This annotated playlist follows Missy Elliott's musical cinema. Paying particular attention to the use of speculative tropes, it argues that Elliott's work draws on Black feminist aesthetics to paint paths through memory, nostalgia, sexual autonomy, and spiritual rebellion...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 6–31.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Alessandra Raengo Abstract Thinking with Fred Moten's approach to aesthetics in the trilogy consent not to be a single being and Kevin Beasley's A view of a landscape: A cotton gin motor, 2012–18 , this introduction reflects on the way the philosophical project of aesthetics is entangled...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 110–124.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Weheliye's interests in the textures of Black, BlackFem, and Black queer and gender-variant life and aesthetics as discussed in the interview, torralba offers texturality as an analytic that characterizes the scholar-critic's work. Together, the essay and interview highlight how Weheliye's oeuvre enables...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 39–47.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... This methodological maneuver is part and parcel of Hammons's decades‐long practice and serves to enact a Black aesthetic determination already sleeved in its own method. This article works to unpack how Hammons throws into methodological disarray the question of art's histories by his relentless invocation of Black...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 4–13.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Sybil Newton Cooksey; Tashima Thomas Abstract The introduction presents Afro‐Gothic as an aesthetic and theoretical framework for understanding the various works in the special issue, which includes essays, interviews, a playlist, and a roundtable. Taking up Cauleen Smith's Crow Requiem (2015...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 88–117.
Published: 01 October 2022
... in this era. The entwined reflections on black life, death, and aesthetics offered up by Jafa, Claudia Rankine, Hortense Spillers, Elizabeth Alexander, and Sylvia Wynter shape these speculations toward a black creative, curatorial, and cultural practice attentive to the other(wise) worlds opened by uncanny...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 162–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Sybil Newton Cooksey; Tashima Thomas; Leila Taylor; Lea Anderson; John Jennings; Paul Miller (DJ Spooky) Abstract The roundtable gathers specialists dedicated to thinking through the Afro‐Gothic as a conceptual approach to black aesthetics and as a theoretical framework. In the spirit...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 62–75.
Published: 01 April 2023
... within limbo as an African Diasporic cosmology and aesthetic. He argues that we must grapple with crisis as limbo because the analogy gives us something we would not get with any other concept. That something is what is needed to move us toward a place where even in the midst of immanent disaster...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 4–25.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Alessandra Raengo Abstract Thinking along Ariel Brown's 2021 video history | alchemy | evolution , this introduction approaches “suspension” as a concept, hermeneutic, aesthetic practice, and ethics of intellectual praxis by focusing on the way it dovetails with the radical work the prefix ana...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 88–99.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Luke Williams Abstract The artwork of sculptor, draftsperson, and installation artist Michael Richards (1963 – 2001) challenges prevalent assumptions about the physical properties, and therefore the aesthetic application, of suspension in Black cultural production. As an African American...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 102–118.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Kelly I. Chung Abstract Featuring a conversation with the artist, this essay offers a reading of Amina Ross's aesthetic practice across a selection of their work. Alongside Fred Moten's own critique of the overrepresentation of blackness as death-driven, it highlights their ongoing contributions...
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