Black Haptics Lab

a research-led multimodal collective exploring Black diaspora across space-time

[Black Girl Magik @blackgmagik]

List of Arts Resources During the COVID-19 Outbreak from @creativecap in our resource guide: https://t.co/GIZrH902x2 https://t.co/8SbOMf5eP7

[amita swadhin @aswadhin]

2,271 #LGBTQ folks of color in the gig/service economy have requested support from our #COVID19 #MutualAid fund. Most need <$500 right now.

Three asks:
1. Donate

2. Retweet

3. If you’re running a mutual aid fund or a family foundation, partner with us to meet this great need!

[Ｅｌｅｃｔｒｉｃ Ｍａｒｒｏｎａｇｅ @e_marronage]

"The loophole of retreat …
a dark hole
an attic space
she plots, she plans
she dreams of possibility from within impossible strictures of enclosure and confinement..."

-Tina Campt, The Loophole of Retreat: An Invitation (1/2)
#electricmarronage

[Marking Time @MarkingTimeArt]

"My pain and struggles are just part of the inspirations I draw upon to create. My goal is to express the human condition in a way that enables the audience to see that we are all simply human.” Tameca Cole is a visual artist and writer from Birmingham, Alabama.
#MarkingTimePS1

[Black Haptics Lab @BlackHapticsLab]

FleSH // the soft substance consisting of muscle and fat that is found between the skin and bones.

Ja'Tovia Gary's "flesh that needs to be loved" a citational ode to black feminist praxis.

[Paula Cooper Gallery @PaulaCooperNY]

On view through March 21 is “flesh that needs to be loved,” #JaToviaGary’s inaugural exhibition at #PaulaCooperGallery. More information here https://t.co/FYhmfLi9PV

[Ｅｌｅｃｔｒｉｃ Ｍａｒｒｏｎａｇｅ @e_marronage]

Rule #1: How do you escape?

“I don’t think I could have happily stayed here, in the world, if I did not have a way of thinking about it. Which is what writing is for me.”

Toni Morrison, 2015
#electricmarronage #ToniMorrison

[maya cade @mayascade]

i found a largely unseen toni morrison interview on vhs, converted it digitally, and uploaded it in totality for her birthday + #blackhistorymonth.

she gave this interview about “beloved” on the eve of its publication. https://t.co/qafFqNyf1K

[Black Haptics Lab @BlackHapticsLab]

"To survive in water...you have to relax. If you struggle, you sink. You take the waves as they come. I think of that as just a state of being” — Calida Rawles via @Cultured_Mag https://t.co/51zPTX80DA

[Hammer Museum @hammer_museum]

Opening Soon—Hammer Projects: Ja'Tovia Gary

Filmed on location in Harlem, New York, & in Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, France, @jatovia's 'THE GIVERNY SUITE' is a cinematic poem that meditates on the safety & bodily autonomy of Black women: https://t.co/5rURiY30aQ

[Black Haptics Lab @BlackHapticsLab]

"...works by female-identifying photographers from Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean. The exhibit looks at subjective histories and archival actions of storytelling, by interrogating transcultural decoloniality, identity, memory, meaning-making, and self-(re)invention."👇🏾

[PCNW @photocenternw]

PCNW is pleased to present our winter exhibition: Exploring Passages Within the Black Diaspora.
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On view January 16–March 22, 2020
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Curated by Berette Macaulay, PCNW’s winter group exhibition, Exploring Passages Within the Black Diaspora will featu… https://t.co/bJsA7Qwhtl

[mary pena @maradotluna]

Making my way through this lovely collection. So many powerful words: "diasporic productions of poetry and photography recast the human and become constellations of images and words working in tandem, cleaved, toward decolonization”— @DrYoFiggy writing against “paperlessness"

[Kaiama L Glover 💥 @inthewhirld]

Exhibit opening | Artists Talk – contemporary Haitian artists propose a visual dialogue with the work of famed Haitian author René Depestre! #InAllMyDreams2020 https://t.co/r9vcaHANF9

[Umber @ThisIsUmber]

Start 2020 off with “sounds of blackness”. #VisualArt #design #media #music https://t.co/ezG2OllJgE

[Black Haptics Lab @BlackHapticsLab]

In the 3-channel video, Passage, artist Mohau Modisakeng meditates on the aftereffects of slavery; oceanic movement as equally life-sustaining & destructive; the meaning of water, the ship, the whip, & the historical charge of singular objects — @mbamtl

[Black Haptics Lab @BlackHapticsLab]

Happy birthday to one brilliant trailblazer of black studies.

"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can anyone deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me." -Zora Neale Hurston

[Black Haptics Lab @BlackHapticsLab]

"The interior is of real time. Black aliveness in real time; the inner making and expressiveness of being; to be real (come alive) in time. Black interior time is in the (process of) becoming; it can be constant, durational, or entered into."— @ladiglory via @ARTSdotBLACK

[LADIJONES @ladi_sasha]

A Grammar for Black Interior Art, published by the phenomenal editorial leadership of @ARTSdotBLACK, was written in reflection of many artists, but features work by #SimoneLeigh, #TionaNekkiaMcClodden, and #TorkwaseDyson.

Read here | https://t.co/qIQEbUsazW

[Black Haptics Lab @BlackHapticsLab]

Jewels of black feminist study sewn in the Loophole of Retreat gathering. Will dwell with and return to these words over and over again...