Kemuel Benyehudah weighs in about the importance of the work and activism of Black curators in collecting institutions and the necessary decolonization work being done by local Black curators.
Read MoreArtblog’s Morgan Nitz interviews artist and filmmaker Nishat Hossain about their recent work and hybrid research practice which involves reading, writing, making, and performing.
Read MoreCatherine Rush attends the February 24th, 2018 performance of “Poor People’s TV Room” at Bryn Mawr College. Created by Bessie-award-winning writer/choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili, and performed by a small inter-generational cast of black women, this multidisciplinary piece exists at the intersection of installation and dance theater. Inspired in part by Nigeria’s 1929 Women’s War, as well as the 2014 Boko Haram kidnappings of 276 schoolgirls, “Poor People’s TV Room” takes a non-narrative, full-bodied approach to articulating the interplay of trauma and resistance.
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