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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 107–117.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... Written from a movement artist's perspective, the essay provokes with speculative formations that reveal citational activities always evident in black performance. Copyright © 2021 Thomas F. DeFrantz 2021 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 27–36.
Published: 01 April 2021
... this poiēsis as polygenous and para‐semiotic, the essay argues that it is a performative black critique of capitalism's commodification of life. Something about Negro liquidity, however, is phantasmagorical and fetishistic, in Marx's sense. The $500 market price for a young Negro male, reflected in the face...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 28–43.
Published: 01 April 2023
... feminism sexuality As scholars ranging from Tricia Rose to Daphne Brooks have made clear, Black women performers’ aesthetic or critical innovations have tended to be disregarded, even where they have achieved popular or commercial success. 1 Known for subversive music videos that range from sci-fi...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 88–117.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Sybil Newton Cooksey Abstract Through sensitive engagement with the experimental films of Arthur Jafa, the flex choreography of Storyboard P, and performance of #BlackLivesMatter protests, this essay submits revenant motion as a concept through which to think about black being and phenomenology...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 48–67.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of the condition of black social death. Inspired by David Marriott's essay on “corpsing,” deader than dead 's “falling out of character” (Lewis's dancers literally fall to the floor, find themselves revived, and then fall again) revels in and reveals the repeated performance of black life as death to be both...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 97–105.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., and musician and theorist James Gordon Williams. Titled You are mine. I see now, I'm a have to let you go , the piece was performed live at the Hammer Museum during their 2018 biennial event “Made in L.A.” This special section of liquid blackness aims to sample the fully realized collaboration and audiovisual...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 91–95.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., and musician and theorist James Gordon Williams. Titled You are mine. I see now, I'm a have to let you go , the piece was performed live at the Hammer Museum during their 2018 biennial event “Made in L.A.” This special section of liquid blackness aims to sample the fully realized collaboration and audiovisual...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 136–155.
Published: 01 October 2024
... app me.” The analysis reads with scholar-artist Chaz Barracks's ($Chaz-Antoine) 2020 film Everyday Black Matter and rap duo City Girls’ 2020 antiwork anthem and video “Jobs.” This writing performs an audacious gathering as it is submitted in tandem with Barracks's article for this issue, which offers...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 62–75.
Published: 01 April 2023
... an analytical category and practice he calls limbologics: the production of indeterminate ontologies, temporal and spatial imaginaries that are created in relation to conditions of encroachment and violence. Through personal narrative, ethnography, and artist interviews Chapman situates black queer performance...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 49–56.
Published: 01 October 2021
... obscure song lyrics and titles, largely drawn from an archive of Black women's performance. Copyright © 2021 Mark Anthony Neal 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Black women Victoria Spivey Five Days of Bleeding...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 108–123.
Published: 01 October 2024
... Artist into the white American art canon, as their work now appears alongside Jackson Pollock's or Edward Hopper's in an internet search. This performative act was only the first in a series investigating issues of recognizable form and practices of identification. In 2021 Mother of All Demos II...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 21–37.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the sound i saw (David Zwirner Gallery, September 5–October 26, 2019). To my eyes and ears, the two shows were in contrapuntal discourse. While the Zwirner gallerists hung DeCarava's quintessential black and white photographs of African American improvising musicians and jazz performance settings in white...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 4–25.
Published: 01 October 2023
...‐ performs in Black studies and the way black aesthetic practices often hinge on anaoriginarity and anachronism as they seek to effect anarchitectural interventions in the languages and institution of artmaking. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Alessandra Raengo 2023 This is an open access...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 4–15.
Published: 01 October 2024
... when and where modes of inquiry and their forms of expression start and stop. Black studies, for example, assumes it plays a considerable role at the beginning of the end of the world; as such, the scholarly contributions to ecocriticism, performance studies, computing, queer theory, and abolition...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 38–59.
Published: 01 October 2022
... FWP as a performance within a black aquapelagic assemblage. In alignment with Kamau Brathwaite's “the unity is submarine,” 30 which poses a submerged collective, FWP is a subversive submarine intervention operating as an expression of unity and refuge for citizens of Flint through its provisions...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 24–43.
Published: 01 April 2024
... practices described as formless embrace a de form that already constitutes blackness, and not formlessness as a visual/performance motif, as is often the case in Western aesthetics’ “epistemic turns and revolutions.” 1 The “West,” here, is not a specific geographical location; rather, as Édouard...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 28–45.
Published: 01 October 2023
...) and A Symphony in Black (1935), the jazz shorts directed by Fred Waller and composed by Duke Ellington, that drags and never quite lands. Tap dancers perform but the sound of their striking taps is notably absent; instead, shadows flicker on screen and we wait to hear a rhythm that we see but never comes...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 6–31.
Published: 01 April 2022
... American Slave Narrative , edited by Ernest John , 391 – 414 . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . Capper Beth , and Schneider Rebecca . “ Black Performance and Reproduction: A Set of Four Essays in a Round (Introduction) .” TDR / The Drama Review 62 , no. 1 ( 2018...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 4–24.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Gay Men . 1991 . Reprint, Washington, DC : Redbone , 2007 . Keeling Kara . “ Queer OS .” Cinema Journal 53 , no. 2 ( 2014 ): 152 – 57 . Knight Arthur . Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2002...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 2–23.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., is both determinant and determining, engendered and engendering—all the while setting up blackness as a gift that keeps on giving. The practices Zondi focuses on—Germaine Acogny (Senegal) and Faustin Linyekula (DRC)—instead strive to perform an “anarrangement” of the choreographic apparatus “ ‘against...
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