Sentences with phrase «engages blackness»

She engages blackness as a field of tonality.

But theology can never be true to itself in America without engaging blackness, encountering its complex, multi-layered meaning.

Not exact matches

And no, a white partner doesn't automatically make you less conscious, less engaged with your own blackness.

The prodigious thinker's conceptions of blackness and collaboration have been taken up by artists and curators engaged with politics, gender, and race.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s essay on Frederick Douglass is very empowering, and at the end he says, «Even a lecture about something as seemingly apolitical as photography or art in the end must by definition be engaged within and through Douglass's state of being as a black man in a white society in which one's blackness signifies negation.»

His practice engages dance and multiple other media to investigate bodily states in relation to a poetics of blackness, ambiguity and abstraction.

Working primarily in ink, charcoal, pencil, and ballpoint pen, Ojih Odutola's drawings reveal an artist looking closely at the materiality of blackness while engaged in a deep examination of its methodology.

It would be a misconception to believe that his attention to urban regeneration, social practice and blackness engages only the communities that his projects affect immediately.

She is interested in visual complexity, and her recent work engages themes of blackness, blues sensibility and most recently her family's archive of photographs and films.

This becomes more pronounced in Ojih Odutola's series of famous white subjects rendered in blackness and, by contrast, in the white charcoal depictions of couples engaged in ambiguous acts of intimacy or violence.

Taking his cue from Glenn Ligon and Thelma Golden's 2001 exploratory concept of «post-Black» — a term describing artists adamantly against being labeled «black artists» so that they might explore a multiplicity of ideas concerning racial blackness — Majeed engages these questions around folk and outsider by adopting a similar non-essentialist and inquisitive stance in Post Black Folk Art in America.

All the artists for the show were black, and the workshop, says Searle, led to her confronting the issue of blackness for the first time, and realizing that up to now her work had not really engaged with her own sense of self.

Through an engagement of queer affective space, I cultivate what I call a «poetics of bafflement» that works through slippages among aesthetics, blackness and desire (homoerotic and otherwise) to engage the affective and sociocultural dynamics of black belonging.

Taking up the work of bafflement as a means to address slippages among belonging, aesthetics and blackness — and engaging affective and sociocultural dimensions of dis - satisfaction — she examines the «door of no return» as queer assemblage space.

Taking up the work of bafflement as a means to address slippages among belonging, aesthetics and blackness - and engaging affective and sociocultural dimensions of dis - satisfaction - she examines the «door of no return» as queer assemblage space.