Seeing Through Stone: Sonny Trujillo’s Voice from Within
Remy Francisco, October 25, 2024 At 63 years old, Sonny Trujillo stands upon a collapsed prison surveillance tower. He paces five steps...
Engaging works by artists including Deana Lawson, Arthur Jafa, Kahlil Joseph, Dawoud Bey, Okwui Okpokwasili, Simone Leigh, and Luke Willis Thompson, Campt argues that these artist’s practices require “viewers to do more than simply look… [they] solicit visceral responses to the visualization of Black precarity.” The book has been hailed by Art in America as “a methodological offering [and] a theory of what Blackness brings to making and viewing art, and to perception in general.”
Join us for a talk by Professor Campt followed by a conversation moderated by Darren Wallace, PhD student, Film and Digital Media.
Tina M. Campt, a Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art, is Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and a Research Associate at the VIAD (Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre) at the University of Johannesburg. She is the author of Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe, 2012, Listening to Images, 2017, and other books.
Just Futures: Black Quantum Futurism, Arthur Jafa, and Martine Syms, presented in collaboration with the Institute of the Arts and Sciences, is on view at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery from February 1–March 19, 2022.
