« A reasoned conversation about how artists and curators of all backgrounds represent collective traumas and racial injustice would, in an ideal world, be a regular occurrence in art museums and schools. [Yet, it is a deeply puritanical and anti-intellectual strain to] putting moral judgment before aesthetic understanding. We may understand artworks to be indicators of racial, gender, and class privilege — I do, often. But presuming that calls for censorship and destruction constitute a legitimate response to perceived injustice leads us down a very dark path. » Coco Fusco
To go further :
Quote: Censorship, Not the Painting, Must Go: On Dana Schutz’s Image of Emmett Till
The 2017 Whitney Biennial official website =>
Black Focus, Yussef Kamaal (Full Album)
« Notes on border crossing, imagined and invisible places, invented cartography and purposeful cultural smuggling », by Marcella Faustini
A Letter to My Nephew, by James Baldwin, 1962
« Le défi d’une histoire objective et inclusive. Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex and Security in Sixties Montreal par David Austin », Jean-Philippe Warren, 2014
Artwork :
M.Y. pour B(s)ttF
Mawena Yehouessi
Diplomée de Philosophie puis Gestion de Projets Culturels, Mawena fait ses premières armes dans les milieux de l’art contemporain tout en menant de front divers projets : soirées, édition, collectifs artistiques… Fondatrice et directrice de Black(s) to the Future, son objectif est simple : mettre en lumière la part « afro » du monde et performer le futur. | www.mawenayehouessi.fr // @ma.wena
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