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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 34–47.
Published: 01 April 2022
... experimentation. The article contends instead that Moten's work is shaped by a sustained attention to “informal” patterns of aesthetic experience, for which the graphic materiality of writing functions as a privileged index. The article then explores the political and temporal implications of writing's...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 66–83.
Published: 01 April 2024
... on the horse of Eadweard Muybridge's famous Animal Locomotion Plate 626, Nope can be read as suggesting the ubiquitous nature of anti‐Black violence. Furthermore, this essay will suggest that the informe nature of the alien, referred to in the film as Jean Jacket, and which eventually reveals itself...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 6–31.
Published: 01 April 2022
... in the relationships between the legal and the paralegal, law and lawlessness, sensibility and sensoriality, form and informality, nonsense and common sense, exclusion and invagination, objecthood and thingness, motion and stillness, as well as the previousness, prematurity, and postexpectancy of black generativity...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 2–23.
Published: 01 April 2024
... installation Ghost Pools , which marks the location of two segregated pools in East Point, Georgia, reinterred in the early 1980s, by refusing to compare or equate them, and attending instead to their repressed informalities. Avoiding the equation of value that sustains most formalist readings, this essay...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 50–83.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... The artworks investigate the relational property of racialized and gendered alterity and open onto a psychoanalytic field of inquiry informed by Black feminist thought to unravel the colonizing borders of intersubjectivity and blur the distinction between desire and jouissance . Placing Lacan's theorization...
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in Artists in Residence: Jason Moran and the Bandwagon Improvising Freedom (After Walker, Kelly, Kentridge, and Komunyakaa)
> liquid blackness
Published: 01 October 2021
, the Three Deuces, and Slugs’ Saloon) in the development of jazz, what Duke Ellington lovingly and determinedly called Negro folk music. The pieces also represent three streams of the Negro folk tradition that inform the Bandwagon's collective attitude: modernist dance orchestras, bebop rhythm and harmonic
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 1.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., editing a journal issue on the difficulties of “form” and the possibilities of informalisms means intentionally reaching toward uncharted territory while also spending time with objects, questions, and methodologies that feel familiar. That is, of course, the hope of a call for papers that asks...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 1.
Published: 01 April 2023
... on the dialogic that informed their editorial processes and is now visible on the page. We hope readers find inspiration in the collegiality of “Black and Queer, Music on Screen,” which features three different interview genres, edited according to the unique goals of each piece: Alix Chapman's conversations...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 107–117.
Published: 01 April 2021
... that engages the technologies of memory/motion/desire/amongnesses. A liquidity of blackness might be bound up with possibilities that flow over, under, and around; sometimes through. But in motion, always, in motion. PS5 controllers will likely analyze biofeedback information, including heart rate...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 49–56.
Published: 01 October 2021
... women inform the life of a late twentieth-century character, navigating much of the same terrain? In Zu-Zu's male tormentors, Cruz references the so-called phenomenon of wilding, which was attributed to the falsely and unjustly accused “Central Park Five” and became a public lexicon to describe...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 130–139.
Published: 01 October 2022
.... Helen's relationship to Cabrini-Green is one of tourism and extraction. She arrives like a truffle pig, hunting for the delectable morsels of information that will earn her the scholarly renown she hungers for. She is disrespectful and arrogant toward Cabrini's residents, and in her rush to disavow...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 4–24.
Published: 01 April 2023
... For our focus in this volume, the resulting histories and futures of audiovisual media in these terms—say, investigating modes of memory informing and being transformed in the video work of Missy Elliot in the 1990s—can help to explore and valorize the dynamic work of artists over the last decade ranging...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 21–37.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., the Three Deuces, and Slugs’ Saloon) in the development of jazz, what Duke Ellington lovingly and determinedly called Negro folk music. The pieces also represent three streams of the Negro folk tradition that inform the Bandwagon's collective attitude: modernist dance orchestras, bebop rhythm and harmonic...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 95–119.
Published: 01 October 2021
... floor, and imagines social arrangements that can withstand the violence of anti-blackness. 12 Deeply informed by Hartman, Okpokwasili also draws from her experience in the physical arrangements with the vocal chorus and experiments in which voices are woven together. In conversation...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 62–85.
Published: 01 October 2023
... The various identities, all on the same sheet, can be reordered and discovered differently depending on how it is folded and refolded, suspending the self-evident gestures and truth claims of “official” information on a two-dimensional page and turning it into something tactile. 2 With the royals folded...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 5–25.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of the musicians, tuning their instruments and getting ready to play ( sound clip 1 ). Fred Moten singles out a similar moment at the beginning of Marvin Gaye's “What's Going On” as the signal of an informality coming into form. 16 But it is a liquid record: both a sound that has passed through film...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 62–75.
Published: 01 April 2023
... out for like thirty minutes. It took the ambulance sixteen minutes, and I don't know if he's dead. That fear and that chaos informs the urgency within my work. This is something that we need to talk about now. Alix: How did you get into punk? What were your first experiences? Alli: My stage...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 38–59.
Published: 01 October 2022
... $30,000. Finally, a bottling demonstration during the installation provided information about the Flint Water Crisis and other “serious water issues happening in Detroit, the Midwest, and beyond.” 3 Flint Water Project is a buoy in a sea of an Afro-Gothic liquidity marking the coordinates...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 84–101.
Published: 01 April 2024
... the labor involved in putting blackness to work in film. Black reformalism responds to and illuminates how conditions of racialization rooted in labor organize film's systems of signification. If, as per Yearwood's charge, black film criticism must go beyond a deracinated formalism and an informal race...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 102–118.
Published: 01 April 2024
... and relegated to an object and thereby socially dead by way of the transatlantic slave trade, might blackness still hold multiplicity beyond its original intent and form? Ross continuously wrestles with this question in their work—that is, as referenced earlier, “black work.” As aesthetic work informed...
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