![]() ![]() ![]() It speaks to the ongoing case for black lives and art mattering. It disputes staid frameworks of interpretation that cannot or will not account for the speculative, ambivalent, and irreconcilable ways of black forms. Using a 1000-word conceit, it references the pressures on scholars and curators to present complex discussions and formulations of blackness for public consumption, political action, and academic relevance. From left, all details: James VanDerZee, Escape Artist (1924) John Akomfrah, Precarity (2017) still from Magic Mike XXL (2015), directed by Gregory Jacobs Ash Arder, Broadcast #3 (2018) Derrick Adams, Sunday’s Best (2017).īlack One Shot is a series that stages brevity and precision in response to a single work of black art, contemporary and/or prescient. ![]()
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