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Images of blackness have become important in our understanding of
the modern world because they reflect and shape the way black
people are perceived and represented. In Black Meme Legacy Russell
explores the role of these images in the construction of black
identity and visual culture, from the early days of film and
photography to the digital age. The first ever film was a black
jockey riding a horse in 1887. The very first screen kiss was
between two black actors in Lime Kiln Day, 1913. Black Meme also
explores lynching postcards that were common in the 1920s, the
image of Emmot Till's body in the casket and Trayvon's hoodie, the
grainy video of Rodney King and the gloss of Michael Jackson'
Thriller, Diamond Reynolds's Facebook live recording of her
boyfriend's killing by the police, and Beyonce's Formation. Legacy
Russell, the award winning author of Glitch Feminism, explores the
power of these tokens and argues that without the contributions of
black people, digital culture would not exist in its current form.
True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis) is a chronicle of
survival by trailblazing artist Zora J Murff. Murff constructs a
manual for coming to terms with the historic and contemporary
realities of America's divisive structures of privilege and caste.
Since leaving social work to pursue photography over a decade ago,
Murff's work has consistently grappled with the complicit
entanglement of the medium in the histories of spectacle,
commodification, and race, often contextualizing his own
photographs with found and appropriated images and commissioned
texts. True Colors continues that work, expanding to address the
act of remembering and the politics of self, which Murff identifies
as "the duality of Black patriotism and the challenges of finding
belonging in places not made for me-of creating an affirmation in a
moment of crisis as I learn to remake myself in my own image."
Nuanced, challenging, and inspiring, True Colors (or, Affirmations
in a Crisis) is a must-have monograph by a rising and standout
artist. True Colors is the result of the inaugural Next Step Award,
a partnership between Aperture and Baxter St at the Camera Club of
New York, with the generous support of 7G Foundation. An exhibition
of the work will open at Baxter St in New York in November 2021.
The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists:
we are connected all the time. How do we find out who we are within
this digital era? Where do we create the space to explore our
identity? How can we come together and create solidarity? The
glitch is often dismissed as an error, a faulty overlaying, but, as
Legacy Russell shows, liberation can be found within the fissures
between gender, technology and the body that it creates. The glitch
offers the opportunity for us to perform and transform ourselves in
an infinite variety of identities. In Glitch Feminism, Russell
makes a series of radical demands through memoir, art and critical
theory, and the work of contemporary artists who have travelled
through the glitch in their work. Timely and provocative, Glitch
Feminism shows how the error can be a revolution.
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Cyberfeminism Index (Paperback)
Mindy Seu; Foreword by Julianne Pierce; Afterword by Legacy Russell
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Sara Cwynar: Glass Life (Hardcover)
Sara Cwynar, Shelia Heiti; Interview by Rose Bouthillier; Text written by Legacy Russell
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A feminist-inflected investigation of color and image-driven
consumer culture, Glass Life brings together Sara Cwynar's
multilayered portraits and stills from the films Soft Film (2016),
Rose Gold (2017), and Red Film (2018). Cwynar's research-driven and
visually complex images constitute the hallmarks of contemporary
post-Pictures Generation work-in which photography is pursued in
relation to film, sculpture, digital culture, and the cultural and
technological history of image-making. Cwynar's work revolves
around her interest in subjective notions of beauty through images;
the fetishization of consumer objects and colors; and the
exploration of the informal image archives that have emerged around
the industrialization and capitalization of these ideas. As part of
her core practice, Cwynar collects, arranges, and archives her eBay
purchases and creates studio studies of these consumer objects,
exploring how images circulate online and how the lives and
purposes of both physical objects and their likenesses change over
time. Sara Cwynar: Glass Life is a must-have sourcebook for
understanding the multilayered practice of this celebrated,
multidisciplinary artist.
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Camille Henrot: Mother Tongue
Julika Bosch, Hélène Cixous, Seamus Kealy, Emily LaBarge, Legacy Russell, …
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“IN MANY LANGUAGES, ‘UNDERSTANDING’ ALSO COMES FROM THE IDEA
OF PUTTING SOMETHING INSIDE YOUR BODY” – CAMILLE HENROT Over
the past twenty years, Camille Henrot has developed a critically
acclaimed practice that moves seamlessly between drawing, painting,
sculpture, installation, and film. Mother Tongue is Henrot’s
first publication focused solely on painting and drawing, bringing
together over 200 works from the series System of Attachment, Wet
Job, and Soon, created between 2018 and 2022. This recent body of
work addresses the ambivalent nature of care and the tension
between the simultaneous developmental need for attachment and
independence, beginning at infancy and continuing throughout life.
Her deeply personal and intimate interrogations ultimately relate
to broader questions such as the expectations placed on mothers and
the representation of the female body. This richly illustrated
catalogue is accompanied by texts from Emily LaBarge, Legacy
Russell, Marcus Steinweg, Hélene Cixous, Seamus Kealy, and a
conversation with Camille Henrot and curator Julika Bosch.
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Camille Norment: Plexus (Paperback)
Camille Norment; Preface by Jessica Morgan; Text written by Nida Ghouse, Legacy Russell, David Toop, …
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