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#ArtistUpdate: Kahlil Joseph has won the 2020 Eye $#ArtistUpdate: Kahlil Joseph has won the 2020 Eye Art & Film Prize, an annual award established in 2015 by @eye_film to support #artists whose practices span #film and the #visualarts, and whose work distinguishes itself in conceptual ability, imagination, and artistic quality. An innovative #director, influential #installationartist, and pioneer of the #artmusicvideo genre, Joseph’s work has expanded in recent years toward both the #essayfilm and the deliberately unruly (black) #digitalarchive. His two-screen installation “BLKNWS” was hailed as one of the centerpieces of the 2019 Venice Biennale and was beginning to show in selected theaters across the country. Critical engagement with Joseph’s work continues, with #liquidblackness editorial board members Chip Linscott and James Tobias publishing essays engaging the artist’s #experimental #documentaryshort and multiscreen #installation “Wildcat” (2013) as well as the artist’s film installation “Fly Paper” (2017) and visual album he directed for Sampha Sisay’s 2017 album “Process” in a special IN FOCUS dossier featured in the winter 2020 issue of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (🔗 link in bio). The essays collected in “Modes of Black Liquidity: Music Video as Black Art”—a dossier co-edited by liquid blackness founder Alessandra Raengo and Lauren M. Cramer—engage Black #musicvideo production as #BlackArt that self-consciously uses visual and sonic citations from various realms of Black expressive culture in a fluid exchange among art forms. Additionally, Raengo’s essay published by @refractjournal in fall 2019, “The Heat is On,” theorizes how blackness “gathers, recalls, moves, and matters” in Joseph’s “BLKNWS” (🔗 link in bio). . Joseph is an important voice in the #lineage of #artists and #filmmakers concerned with the creation of a #blackaesthetics that liquid blackness has been studying. In fall 2016, we welcomed Joseph to our downtown #Atlanta campus for “Holding Blackness in Suspension: The Films of Kahlil Joseph,” a free public #artisttalk and #screening. Photo: Kahlil Joseph at the New Museum, New York, 2017. Jake Michaels, The New York Times. #2020EYEPrize #eyefilm #KahlilJoseph #Scholarship$

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