If you’re interested in hearing more about alternative archive practices, you might be interested in the Kitchen Sisters’ new series “The Keepers,” a podcast you can download for free from a bunch of different sources. Read more about it here: http://www.kitchensisters.org/category/the-keepers/
Suggested Reading: On NYU Abu Dhabi and Labor
In seeking how our university has dealt with questions of labor coercion in the more recent past, you may be interested in reading this article: https://www.thenation.com/article/labor-abuse-went-nyus-abu-dhabi-campus/
Lucy Cortell
Lucy Cortell By Zainab Floyd Hair course Skin dark Hands callous The silence is haunting The narratives are rigged These walkways have a certain sway Delayed The hymns of slavery The screams of rotting Black bodies Swooshing Black bodies without souls are dragged out onto the court yard Perhaps their souls have run free beyond […]
Bashir Mohamed, “History is Not Dead”
This piece is about exclusivity and whitewashing in academic and archival spaces, the notion of history as being “discovered” or “found,” the effects and meaning of research, and more related to our discussions. https://www.bashirmohamed.com/blog/2018/9/18/history-is-not-dead
Suggested Reading: Claudia Rankine, Citizen
If you’ve not read it yet, Claudia Rankine’s Citizen is essential. Free download below: http://1.droppdf.com/files/zBFF0/citizen-an-american-lyric-claudia-rankine.pdf
Invitation to Contribute: Documents of Resistance: Our Time
Documents of Resistance: Our Time Fall 2018 Overview: Loisaida Center Inc. is pleased to present Documents of Resistance: Our Time, a participatory exhibition and residency of new work by Antonio Serna. How do we give contours to an art history that remains unwritten, scattered across archives, and siloed in scholarship? How can we begin to […]
Suggested Reading
From George Shulman… Another essay to keep in mind is by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang and is called “Decolonization is not a Metaphor,” which you should be able to download from here: https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/decolonization-is-not-a-metaphor/ The essay criticizes and problematizes efforts to take the term and use it in relation to many forms of domination. […]