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MUSIC VIDEO AS BLACK ART:
CLAIMING THE B-SIDE (2023)
A Gathering | Music Video As Black Art Research | Music Video As Black Art Event (2023)
Belly, Hype Williams, 2008. Shot by Malik Sayeed.
Music Video as Black Art: Claiming the B-Side
our symposium to celebrate the 10-year-anniversary of the founding of the group
We gathered on September 21-23, 2023 to celebrate the artists and scholars whose work has prompted our questions, sustained our praxis, and built archives for the conversations we continue to have about the power of contemporary black audio-visual aesthetics:
Bradford Young, Jenn Nkiru, Elissa Blount Moorhead, Shawn Peters, Stefani Saintonge, Kya Lou, curator Ekow Eshun, and scholars Kara Keeling, Robert O’Meally, Mark Anthony Neal, and Stefano Harney. Bios can be found here.
Collectively, they are translating the most powerful visual insights of black music into a visual language that seamlessly moves between high art and popular culture, music and the visual arts, fashion, design, and architecture. We believe this is the most consequential audio-visual aesthetics of our times and we showed their work and asked them about their process.
We are in the process of building the post-event research page. Pardon our dust and check back often!
Editorial and Advisory Boards of
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies
Editors in Chief:
Alessandra Raengo, Georgia State University
Lauren McLeod Cramer, University of Toronto
Editorial Board:
Sampada Aranke, School of the Art Institute, Chicago
Charles “Chip” Linscott, Ohio University
Walton Muyumba, Indiana University
Michele Prettyman, Fordham University
James Tobias, University of California, Riverside
Managing Editor:
Corey Couch, Georgia State University
Associate Editors:
Marquis Bey, Northwestern University
Erica Edwards, Yale University
Ekow Eshun, Curator (London, UK)
Kevin Jerome Everson, University of Virginia
Keith M. Harris, University of California, Riverside
Amy Herzog, City University of New York
Uri McMillan, University of California, Los Angeles
Advisory Board:
Anne Anlin Cheng, Princeton University
Thomas F. DeFrantz, Duke University
Jonathan Eburne, Pennsylvania State University
Amy Elias, University of Tennessee
Tatiana Flores, Rutgers University
Bishnupriya Ghosh, University of California, Santa Barbara
R. A. Judy, University of Pittsburgh
Kara Keeling, University of Chicago
Barbara McCullough, Filmmaker (Los Angeles)
Amber Musser, City University of New York
Marina Peterson, University of Texas, Austin
Louis Ruprecht, Georgia State University
Christina Sharpe, York University
James Gordon Williams, University of California, Santa Cruz