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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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Published: 01 October 2024
FIGURE 9. Red/Adelaide and Adelaide/Red's dance-off is cut with memories of Adelaide as a ballerina, creating intercuts as “joints” that disarticulate the association between Red and a being-toward-death. Us (Jordan Peele, 2019). Frame grab. More
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 95–119.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of the trembling archive. Thinking with Saidiya Hartman's elaboration of the chorus, Okpokwasili's practice offers consideration of the archive as tremulous, in which fragments of imagination and memory cannot be disentangled. As she draws on an unruly lineage of embodied protest practices, the artist discusses...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 168–203.
Published: 01 April 2022
... reconstituting images, artifacts, memories, and speculative histories. Prettyman also explores Blount Moorhead's role in shaping an art and moving image collective of Black media makers in Baltimore, coining the phrase “the Baltimore Arts and Image Renaissance (BAIR),” and citing Baltimore as an important base...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 75–88.
Published: 01 April 2021
... place and time act as means of conjuring narratives of collective memory, of multiple pasts always within reach of the present, across the African diaspora. Finally, the essay considers how Diasporadical Trilogía in particular embraces fantasy as a liberatory form, a means of resistance to notions...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 4–24.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of critical frameworks and contingent practices for understanding not simply the intersectional and disidentificatory aspects of sexed and raced belonging but also, more generally, tensions between personhood and collectivity, between media change and media memory, and between discursive and media histories...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 38–59.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of Islands,” 7 . 20 R. Walcott, “Black Aquatic,” 65 . 21 Mies and Shiva, Ecofeminism , 14 . 22 Wardi, Water and African American Memory , 6 . 23 Tampering with the water supply is a modish tactic of villains in film, literature, live action television, and other forms...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 88–117.
Published: 01 October 2022
... would say—“in some simple-ass way.” 40 Dead blacks are a part of normal life here. — Claudia Rankine, “Condition of Black Life” What do people do with their history of horror? . . . What does it mean to carry cultural memory in the flesh? — Elizabeth Alexander, “Can You Be BLACK...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 2–23.
Published: 01 April 2024
... the Spring Avenue pool. When repeatedly asked if he was ever able to go “inside,” Chief Thornton explains that he was in the parking lot with his mom, watching. The Ghost Pools project included oral history interviews that Hill Bond conducted on site to appeal to sense memory. Through them she was able...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 48–59.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of substitution, and then both memory and justice would be dependent on a system of equivalences. 12 But one cannot substitute what is never quite there, what is there also in the indeterminacy of its being, in its potential; one cannot pin down ghosts that appear neither here nor there, neither now nor...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 4–25.
Published: 01 October 2023
... (2015) in this issue. 10 Similar to Akomfrah's montage, Ariel invites us “to experience a memory that does not find anchorage in a subject, let alone a human one.” 11 In history | alchemy | evolution too, intonation explores and expands the possibilities of the black voice unencumbered...
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 5–18.
Published: 01 October 2021
...,” discussed in liquid blackness 5, no. 1, in Raengo, “Black Study @ GSU” and Raengo, “Jurisgenerativity of Liquid Praxis.” 12 See Okpokwasili's discussion of her collaboration with Ralph Lemon, Scaffold Room (2014), at the Walker Museum, as part of which they considered “selling” the memory...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 102–109.
Published: 01 October 2023
... . “ Photography and the Practices of Critical Black Memory .” History and Theory 48 , no. 4 ( 2009 ): 112 – 29 . Sharpe Christina . In the Wake: On Blackness and Being . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . Wallace Maurice O. , and Smith Shawn Michelle , eds. Pictures...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 98–117.
Published: 01 April 2022
... the technology of Black listening? 18 What does it mean for Marshall Allen, for example, to breathe in his unique (alien?) way into the saxophone (a site of memory in/with presence) and such breathing changes the values and meaning of that which was touched by it? 19 What happens to breathing when it can...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 120–127.
Published: 01 October 2022
... the bitter cassava is poisonous. The song suggests that precarity in many forms, alimentary or spiritual, haunt our diasporic communities. On “Pommelhorse” Armand Hammer (Elucid and billy woods) uncover Gothic imagery through “scream therapy” that ties embodied memories, like sleeping in the streets...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (1): 86–95.
Published: 01 April 2022
... grandfather makes to get away from his mother. The path west he makes to get away from Texas, get away from the memory of his childhood friend who is taken, memory of my grandmother who as a child is given to a man twice her age until my grandfather is old enough to rescue her, move her out of Texas, move her...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 4–13.
Published: 01 October 2022
... interesting animal. In the dead of winter they would fill up a tree so densely that it looked like the tree had leaves. And the sound was like this incredible conversation they all were having. I did a little research on crows and found out about their intelligence. The fact that they have memory, language...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 48–67.
Published: 01 October 2024
...FIGURE 9. Red/Adelaide and Adelaide/Red's dance-off is cut with memories of Adelaide as a ballerina, creating intercuts as “joints” that disarticulate the association between Red and a being-toward-death. Us (Jordan Peele, 2019). Frame grab. ...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 88–99.
Published: 01 October 2023
....” 13 Cramer, “Icons,” 143 . 14 Cramer, “Icons,” 145 . 15 Cramer, “Icons,” 146 . 16 See Raiford, “Photography and the Practices of Critical Black Memory.” 17 As described in the Bronx Museum of the Arts's description of the exhibition, Michael Richards and Cathleen...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 78–97.
Published: 01 April 2023
... chokes up and reflects: “The times of the Village, from Fourteenth Street to Christopher Street. The memories. People should never forget where they came from.” This footage, like Rivera's, is a documented record of a material and actual life lived. However, it also holds the sense of immediacy assumed...
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