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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 (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 (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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Doing It, Fluid : Elissa Blount Moorhead and the Making of a Moving Image Arts Community
Open Access
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 (2022) 6 (2): 38–59.
Published: 01 October 2022
... with artist Pope.L, who in 2017 created an installation/performance/marketplace in which he bottled the noxious water shuttled to Flint residents and sold it to willing buyers. I consider the aesthetics and performativity of Pope.L's Flint Water Project alongside the nautical world‐building of Drexciya...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 46–59.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Rudi Kraeher Abstract This essay argues for a close attention to the use of sound in the audiovisual aesthetics of Isaac Julien's seminal New Queer Cinema film Looking for Langston (1989). The analysis relies on Amber Musser's work on “sensation” as an analytic for corporeal knowledge production...
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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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Introduction: Blackness as Process
Open Access
liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 5–18.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of archival investments coupled with a shared ethos of critical vulnerability. While approaching blackness as process attempts to think about its ongoingness, it also reaffirms the aesthetic realm as a privileged processing site. Copyright © 2021 Alessandra Raengo 2021 This is an open access article...
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Afro-Gothic
Open Access
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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Free Medicine: An Introduction
Open Access
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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dancing among the watery folds
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 107–117.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Thomas F. DeFrantz Abstract This essay explores conceptual terms that might surround the dancing within watery folds of “liquid blackness.” A speculative invention, the essay proposes a shifting status of water-in-motion as a register for considering black faith and worldmaking through dancing...
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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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The Unfungible Flow of Liquid Blackness
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liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 27–36.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., “ Neger ,” and “ Nègre ,” depending on the nationality of the ship. As Fred Moten has pointed out in In the Break , that imposition of noise was an inaugural moment in “the animative materiality—the aesthetic, political, sexual, and racial force—of the ensemble of objects,” which he says might be called...
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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 (2024) 8 (2): 108–123.
Published: 01 October 2024
... technology. This article traces these refusals of form in American Artist's Black Gooey Universe . Drawing on Zakiyyah Jackson's analysis of Western ontology, the article theorizes the edges in Artist's sculptures as sites of undoing, suspension, and speculation. Undoing the form of the GUI to find...
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Photography on Tilt
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 62–85.
Published: 01 October 2023
.... In Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984 , edited by Rabinow Paul , vol. 2 , Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology , edited by Faubion James D. , 205 – 22 . New York : New Press , 1998 . Geimer Peter . “ Image as Trace: Speculations About an Undead Paradigm ,” translated by Gellen...
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Black One Shot and the Art of Blackness
Open Access
liquid blackness (2021) 5 (2): 85–93.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and resolve of punditry, the high theory flyover, or the hot take? What if we gave sharp and agitated love to the speculative, ambivalent, and irreconcilable ways of black form as cultural production? What if one were compelled by their object and not their tool? In an ongoing experiment without a hypothesis...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 92–107.
Published: 01 October 2024
... these self-mate problems as a black theorization of play, rendered in chess aesthetics, that imagines both game and world radically undone. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Kevin D. Ball 2024 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (2): 48–59.
Published: 01 October 2023
... for time underwater. If the Zong marks the incipient triumph of speculation, the injuries it has inflicted to memory and justice cannot be taken up only from the side of the speculative. To reflect—to see and remember according to the logic of reflection, of the specular and speculative—threatens...
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Black Study @ GSU: The Album
Open Access
liquid blackness (2021) 5 (1): 5–25.
Published: 01 April 2021
... puts it, it is a poiēsis in black , a performative contradiction instigated by modernity's liquefaction. Liquidity, argues Grant Farred, in an essay that walks us through the “speculative” possibilities of the captive body—regardless of its race or political affiliation—is abstraction that “keeps...
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