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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 98–117.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Jessie Cox; Isaac Jean-François Abstract A meditation on (Black) breathing, this essay reflects on blackness and breathing as motile (un)representable practices. Black subjects are able to resist by breathing in spite of modernity's impulse to cut off black motion at the throat. Though deeply...
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Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 2. The musical score of Jessie Cox's “Breathing,” written for Derrell Acon, which was commissioned by Sally Kurnick and Long Beach Opera. © Jessie Cox, September 2020. Courtesy of the artist. More
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 119–125.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., withdrawing from the immediacy of human perception. We can only touch helium by inhaling it, allowing it to become breath, if only for a moment, before it escapes and dissipates. Helium reminds us to not assume a stability of matter. Gas escapes, and liquid is temporary, suspended, while solids are fluid...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 91–95.
Published: 01 April 2021
... in. Suné’s visuals of beings in the water, breathing and not breathing, are so compelling because the motions and the gestures the performers are enacting feel very intuitive or organic. To me, they signal possibilities of this sociogenic principle—the fact that we can shape-shift into other modes of organic...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 6–31.
Published: 01 April 2022
... the aesthetic can be understood not only as a processing site but also as a space of congregation. 93 McKee, “Staging Mirrors,” 71 . 94 McKee, “Staging Mirrors,” 67 . 95 Cox and Jean-François, “Aesthetics of (Black) Breathing,” 99 . 96 Cox and Jean-François, “Aesthetics of (Black...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 95–119.
Published: 01 October 2021
... with the curator Lydia Bell, Okpokwasili discusses her interest in sound “as a kind of archive, a cultural archive in the body. And all the things that are a part of that sound; the groan, the cry, the laugh, . . . the whisper, the breath, the kind of sound in the breath.” Between affect and breath, the voice...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 88–117.
Published: 01 October 2022
...: Art and Mourning in America , edited by Enwezor Okwui and Nash Mark , 17 – 20 . London : Phaidon , 2020 . Sharpe Christina . In the Wake: On Blackness and Being . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . Sidney Brooke . “ Black Breaths Matter: A Meditation...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 4–25.
Published: 01 October 2023
... have left and gone . . . but there is work here”), to pleading and questioning (“let me breathe to make sure I'm alive and this ain't just some crazy-ass dream”), to offering a meta-commentary on the power of music-making (“heat and pressure, and all the forces that I make”) and on the conditions...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 5–25.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... Sound is perhaps an expression of black salinity, Walcott's rendering of blackness's birth (and death) in saltwater as the “foundation of capitalism and post-Enlightenment global life.” 35 As Woods, Moten, and Williams articulate: “I can't breathe under water and I can't breathe above water.” 36...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 34–47.
Published: 01 October 2024
... breathing, accompanied by on-screen instructions to: take a deep breath keep it there, let your belly feel full hold steady RELEASE. Such words exemplify a tendency found throughout Whittle's work, whereby the artist actively seeks to generate moments of pause and peace even amid ongoing...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 68–91.
Published: 01 October 2024
... and breathing again’ for others.” 18 If we are still living in the aftermath of the Middle Passage, as Hartman proposes, is there a possibility for Black futurity after or beside this aftermath? 19 For sociologist Martin Savransky, Césaire's statement gains a new relevancy today that reaches...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 92–107.
Published: 01 October 2024
...,” 276 . 29 Smith, “Chess,” 276 . 30 Here I draw on Ashon T. Crawley's understanding of “centrifugitivity.” See Crawley, Blackpentecostal Breath , 106 . 31 In self-mate, the moves that solve the problem compel the enemy pieces to deliver checkmate. As such, the participation...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 21–37.
Published: 01 October 2021
... Town, the New World and its wealth, just as my feelings of alienation were about to coolly constrict my airways, what came to mind and, joyfully, thankfully, eased my breathing were Walker's cutouts, Kentridge's collages, Komunyakaa's poetry, and the Bandwagon's sound. They speak of my pains and my...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 107–117.
Published: 01 April 2021
.../slavery-trail-of-tears-180956968/ . Crawley Ashon T. Black Pentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility . New York : Fordham University Press , 2016 . Daniel Yvonne . Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodoun, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé . Champaign...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 120–127.
Published: 01 October 2022
... some more rope.” His words are a haunting invocation of the persistence of black life in the aftermath of the genocidal slave trade. Yet as his vocals stretch on, monotone and authoritative, they eventually become warped as if he's run out of breath. On the last two lines his clear voice is replaced...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 86–95.
Published: 01 April 2022
... (Live at the Village Vanguard, New York 1961)” on loop beside us. Sensual music, prolonged deep, carries up and out our little red convertible, carries up and out into the night air. Snaking among the streets of your birth, I forget how to breathe, make the j a canoe and we sail off in it in laughter...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 38–59.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of children born to pregnant African mothers who were thrown overboard from slave ships during the Middle Passage. The unborn children learned how to breathe underwater while still in their mother's womb. In a similar function to Pope.L's compassionate submerged fugitivity, Drexciya imagines an underwater...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 5–18.
Published: 01 October 2021
... modes (movement, song, breathing, architecture, painting, video, photography, and poetry), but also about citational and publishing practices. 8 Juarez's essay also inspires me to pose this same question to the other contributors in this issue. If the archive comprises the things we carry...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 102–118.
Published: 01 April 2024
... successively blooming that complement the surrounding tulips. Crisp, wet sounds of breathing and sucking nearly drown out the soft distant accelerated ticking that, layered together, invoke not only a temporality but also a spatiality—and perhaps a spaciousness—within the body that anticipates a black now...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 16–33.
Published: 01 October 2024
.... Standard Oil makes this explicit, crediting progress in the region to industry's “magic wand,” which saw the oil and gas industry breathing new life into the “unprofitable cotton fields.” 19 Here, we can recall Marx's description of commodity fetishism as “magic and necromancy.” Indeed, Marx used...
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