liquid blackness

A research project focused on blackness and aesthetics

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

A new issue of @liquidblackness, guest-edited by Sybil Newton Cooksey and Tashima Thomas, presents "Afro-Gothic" as an aesthetic and theoretical framework for understanding. It includes essays, interviews, a playlist, and a roundtable. Read it for free: https://t.co/wqXputpIV4

[Shanaé Burch, Ed.D #CreatingHealthfulNarratives @ShanaeRebecca]

Just read the excerpt of fahima ife experimental essay series, Grief Aesthetics, in @liquidblackness and I feel like I was just hugged. https://t.co/ydTldhQE75

[liquid blackness @liquidblackness]

VIRTUAL LECTURE TODAY! 4-6pm "The Liquidity of the Black Arts" is a public colloquium presented by our very own @AleRaengo, a Paul Mellon Senior Fellow at @ngadc
https://t.co/cBdSF20txB

[liquid blackness @liquidblackness]

DEADLINE APPROACHING... #liquidblackness 7.2 CFP “Suspension”

An invitation to consider suspension as a theoretical and methodological pivot, a relay, a pause, or a *sigh* (see @BlackPostBlack “What Time Is It When You Are Black?")

https://t.co/cuB3wucPK1

@DukePress

[liquid blackness @liquidblackness]

"Atonal Symphonies" also featured essential contributions from:
Kevin Jerome Everson
Grant Farred
Michael Boyce Gillespie
Charles “Chip” Linscott
@NewBlackMan
Marina Peterson
James Tobias
@uddinlisa
@blacklikewho

[liquid blackness @liquidblackness]

"Atonal Symphony: Movement I," selected audio recordings of "Atonal Symphonies: Conversations on Blackness and Liquidity at the Threshold of Thinking and Making" (Sept 16-17, 2021)
https://t.co/8o1NwqDVtp

[liquid blackness @liquidblackness]

"Atonal Symphony: Movement I" features (in order of appearance):
R.A. Judy
@EkowEshun
Fred Moten
@jgwcomposer
Sampada Aranke
Calvin Warren
suné woods
@wmuyumba
@tbirdinflight

[liquid blackness @liquidblackness]

@JPBowles Thanks!

[liquid blackness @liquidblackness]

@mcclaurintweets An interesting question and a beautiful description of informality in your practice! 🙏🏾

[liquid blackness @liquidblackness]

🚨New CFP!!🚨 #liquidblackness issue 8.1 *Informalisms* asks "If 'form' is a way in which art knows itself to be art, then how does black art know itself? And how does it know that it knows?"

https://t.co/ekY7SedhF7

@DukePress

[ASAP/Journal @ASAP_Journal]

X = Object love + art of blackness criticism ≅ disassociate, distend, demand, refract, rejoice. Solve for X in no more than 1000 words.

The 21st transmission of b.O.s, edited by @Mboycegillespie & @uddinlisa, is LIVE on ASAP/J now.

https://t.co/rmepvgUH6L

[liquid blackness @liquidblackness]

Submit to #liquidblackness editors @AleRaengo and Lauren McLeod Cramer's @caavisual session "MUSIC VIDEO AS BLACK ART" inspired this conversation between @NewBlackMan and @urimac731
https://t.co/R5gD1PHRXy

CFP: https://t.co/Ag1bwIEwTO
How to Submit: https://t.co/Xwio9NG8jM

[ASAP/Journal @ASAP_Journal]

X = Object love + art of blackness criticism ≅ disassociate, distend, demand, refract, rejoice. Solve for X in no more than 1000 words.

The 19th transmission of b.O.s, edited by @Mboycegillespie & @uddinlisa, is LIVE on ASAP/J now.

https://t.co/rmepvgUH6L

[Dr. Michele Prettyman @michelebeverly]

Find out more in my new essay/interview with Blount Moorhead in the liquid blackness journal of black studies and aesthetics published with Duke University Press—it’s free! https://t.co/tkXWDzk7Ie

[Dr. Michele Prettyman @michelebeverly]

You’ve heard of the Harlem Renaissance, but what about Baltimore’s Black Arts and Image Renaissance? Baltimore is home to film artists like Elissa Blount Moorhead, Bradford Young, Terence Nance and countless Black art and culture pioneers.

[Global Black Studies at Duke @DukeAAAS]

Artists in Residence: Jason Moran (@morethan88) and the Bandwagon Improvising Freedom (After Walker, Kelly, Kentridge, and Komunyakaa) | @liquidblackness (2021) 5 (2): 21–37. | Walton Muyumba

https://t.co/mlclIrDERh

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

A recent issue of @liquidblackness, "Aesthetics," edited by Lauren McLeod Cramer & @AleRaengo, is out now. Start reading for free here: https://t.co/Nz2zU3qUYR