Tag: Nitro

• Debates about “The War on Black Bodies” (Part 3) – some concluding thoughts on the arts in London

  

  Following an extremely hard-fought and impassioned anti-racism campaign led by journalist and rights activist Sara Myers, the senior management team of the Barbican arts centre issued a formal statement on Tuesday 23rd September to confirm their cancellation of the controversial installation ‘Exhibit B – Third World Bunfight’ by South African ‘artist’ Brett Bailey, which was scheduled…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  September 26, 2014

  Art – Politics, Performance Art, Racism

  ‘Human Zoo’, Anti-racism, Audiences, Barbican, Brett Bailey, Colonialism, Consultation, Exhibit B, FLT, JetBlakInk, Lilian Thuram Foundation, Nepotism, Nitro, Protest, Sara Myers, Stereotyping

• Debates about the “The War on Black Bodies,” situated in contrasting cultural spaces in New York and London

  

  “How can we transform the ways in which identity is conceived so that identities do not emerge and function only through the oppression and subordination of other social identities?” – Elizabeth Grosz (2011). Source: Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art (Grosz, 2011: 89) “The War on Black Bodies” (Part 1) – the…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  September 21, 2014

  Art – Politics, London, Racism, United Kingdom

  ‘Human Zoo’, Activism, Black Cultural Archives, Brett Bailey, Claudia De La Cruz, Corporeality, Curating Difficult Knowledge, Darnell Moore, Elizabeth Grosz, Exhibit B, Ferguson, Identity, Khalil Muhammad, New York, Nitro, Performance, Representation, Schomburg, Stereotyping, The Black Body, War on Black Bodies