liquid blackness 10-year ANNIVERSARY
liquid blackness hosted a Symposium on Music Video as Black Art: Claiming the B-Side to mark the 10-year anniversary of its founding as a study group.
We are gathered on September 21-23, 2023, to celebrate the artists who channel the visual imagination of black music into work that equally circulates through the networks of popular culture and high art.
FEATURES ARTISTS, SCHOLARS, AND CURATORS INCLUDE:
Elissa Blount Moorhead
Ekow Eshun
Stefano Harney
Kara Keeling
Kya Lou
Jenn Nkiru
Robert O’Meally
Mark Anthony Neal
Shawn Peters
Stefani Saintonge
Bradford Young
Their work has prompted our questions, sustained our praxis, and built archives for the conversations we continue to have about contemporary black audio-visual aesthetics. Bios can be found here.
Music Video as Black Art: Claiming the B-Side
Symposium Schedule
Preparatory Screenings
Thursdays, 5:30pm -- One Park Place, GSU
August 24 - Relationship to Experimental Cinema
August 31 – Music
September 7 - Color and Texture
Opening Night
Thursday (Sept 21, 2023), 6-8pm -- Kopleff Recital Hall, GSU
15 Gilmer St SE, Atlanta, GA 30303
Screening of As Told to G/D Thyself (dir. Bradford Young, Terence Nance, Jenn Nkiru, Marc Thomas, Kamasi Washington, as Umma Chroma group), with filmmakers Bradford Young, Jenn Nkiru, Elissa Blount Moorhead, Shawn Peters, Stefani Saintonge, Kya Lou in conversation with Michele Prettyman.
Reception- Creative Media Industries Institute
25 Park Pl NE, Atlanta, GA 30303. RSVP required. Please use the “contact” form in this site
Friday, September 22 -- Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
535 Means St NW, Atlanta, GA 30318
Panel 1—3:30-5:00 pm: “MVBA: Claiming the B-Side: The Project,”
with liquid blackness membersPanel 2—5:30-7pm: “When Music History becomes Art History,” with
Robert O’Meally, Craig Dongoski, Walton Muyumba
Saturday, September 23 -- Kopleff Recital Hall, GSU
15 Gilmer St SE, Atlanta, GA 30303
Panel 1—3:30-5:00pm: “Curating Ensembles–Curating for Sound,”
with Ekow Eshun, Elissa Blount Moorhead, Mark Anthony Neal.Panel 2—5:30-7:00pm: “Black study as aesthetic practice”
with Kara Keeling, Stefano Harney and filmmakers
With the participation of members of the Editorial Board of liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies:
Lauren McLeod Cramer (Co-Editor in Chief)
Sampada Aranke
Chip Linscott
Michele Prettyman
James Tobias
Walton Muyumba
Symposium organized by
Alessandra Raengo—founder of liquid blackness research group, founding Editor in Chief of liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies, CEO of Liquid Blackness Limited
Corey Couch
Joshua Cleveland
Alper Gobel
djones
Ashley Hendricks
Gail McFarland
Cedric Simmons
Anna Winter
and
Daren Fowler
Jenny Gunn
The event is presented by Liquid Blackness, Limited and the liquid blackness Project (www.liquidblackness.com) with generous support from a Terra Foundation of American Art Convening Grant. The Terra Foundation for American Art, established in 1978 and having offices in Chicago and Paris, supports organizations and individuals locally and globally with the aim of fostering intercultural dialogues and encouraging transformative practices that expand narratives of American art, through the foundation’s grant program, collection, and initiatives.
The event is additionally supported by the University of Toronto’s Cinema Studies Institute and Global Classroom Initiative; Georgia State University’s College of the Arts, School of Film Media and Theater, Center for Hellenic Studies, and Creative Media Industry Institute; the Department of Film and Media at Emory University, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Ranged Touch podcasting network, a host of community supporters from the extended liquid blackness community, and in intellectual partnership with the Academy for Diaspora Literacy, Inc.’s Guardians of Heritage.
