Podcast appearances and mentions of Tina M Campt

Dramatiker og regissør Linda Gathu er aktuell med SUKKER som hadde urpremiere på Bergen Dramatikkfestival 25. august 2022. I forestillingen har hun latt seg inspirere av historikeren Pierre Noras konsept «Lieux de mémoire» som går ut på at et sted eller objekt har evne til å absorbere fortiden. At et sted har potensial for å romme alt som tidligere har skjedd der, som en slags portal til fortiden. Eller at fortiden er tilstede her og nå. I SUKKER trekker Gathu paralleller mellom norsk kolonihistorie og samtid, med Bergen som «portal». Hun løfter aspekter ved norsk historie som tidligere har vært skyggelagt, og utforsker det kunsthistorikeren Tina M. Campt kaller for «Black Frequency». Forestillingen starter med en båttur fra Møhlenpris, som er oppkalt etter forpakteren for Vestindisk-Guineisk Kompagni, Jørgen Thor Møhlen. I 1673 forlot fartøyet «Cornelia» Bergen med kurs for «Dend guineische guld og slawe Cust», som ble starten for Danmark-Norges slavehandel. Forestillingen utspiller seg på tvers av tider, og tilbyr publikum ulike ståsteder og blikk på både fortid og samtid. I denne samtalen snakker Gathu med dramaturg Morten Cranner om bakgrunnen for prosjektet, og hvordan hun har jobbet romlig, tekstuelt og konseptuelt med materialet. Samarbeid med Dramatikkens hus.

How do we look at, and respond to, work by Black contemporary artists? In this episode, we sat down with Tina Campt, Visiting Professor in Art & Archaeology and the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton. We trace the arc of Prof. Campt's career, from her earlier research on family photography in the African diaspora and how one can “listen to images,” all the way to her current writing and recent trip to this year's Venice Biennale. Along the way, we discuss concepts that elucidate the aesthetic, political, and experiential dynamics of work by artists like Jennifer Packer, Cameron Rowland, Stan Douglas, and Simone Leigh. Deep Dive: How to “listen” to a photograph Tina M. Campt, Listening to Images (Duke University Press, 2017). Tina M. Campt, A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See (MIT Press, 2021). The Breakdown - Guest Info (Photo credit: barnard.edu) Tina M. Campt (https://artandarchaeology.princeton.edu/people/tina-m-campt)  Professor Campt taught a multidisciplinary seminar called “Radical Composition” as a Visiting Professor at Princeton for the Spring 2022 semester. She is the Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, and heads the Black Visualities Initiative at Brown's Cogut Institute for Humanities. In addition to the five books she has authored and edited, such as Listening to Images and A Black Gaze, Professor Campt is the lead convener of the Practicing Refusal Collective and the Sojourner Project.  See, Hear, Do “Radical Composition” course materials: Saidiya Hartman, "Venus in Two Acts." Small Axe 12, no. 2 (2008): 1-14.  Flying Lotus, “Until the Quiet Comes,” dir. Kahlil Joseph (2012).  Carrie Mae Weems, “People of a Darker Hue” (2016). Jay-Z, “4:44,” dir.  Arthur Jafa (2017).  Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life (First Print Press, 2018). Practicing Refusal Collective, The Sojourner Project (ongoing). Whitney Museum of American Art, “Ask a Curator: Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing” (2022). Taylor DaFoe, “How Curators David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards Tackled the 2022 Whitney Biennial to Show ‘What America Really Looks Like',” artnet news (March 29, 2022). Simone Leigh, Sovereignty, Official U.S. Presentation, 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, April 23–November 27, 2022. National Gallery of Art, Afro-Atlantic Histories, April 10–July 17, 2022. Tina M. Campt, fourth lecture in the series Image Complex: Art, Visuality & Power, University of Sydney (online lecture, October 19th, 2022, register here).

Visual art holds the extraordinary power to connect the dots between ideas or emotions, the person thinking or feeling them, and the outside viewer; but how might the viewer go beyond simply looking to experiencing art, in all its joys and especially in its challenges and discomforts? In the 114th episode of Town Hall's In the Moment podcast, Elisheba Johnson interviews Tina Campt about her latest book, A Black Gaze. In the book, Campt explores the work of eight contemporary Black artists who are shifting the nature of visual interactions with art and demanding that Blackness be seen anew. She considers, “Rather than looking at Black people, rather than simply multiplying the representation of Black folks, what would it mean to see oneself through the complex positionality that is Blackness — and work through its implications on and for oneself?” The featured artists' work includes the portraiture of Deana Lawson, the video of Arthur Jafa, the film of Khalil Joseph, the photography of Dawoud Bey, and the multimedia practices of Okwui Okpokwasili, Simone Leigh, and Luke Willis Thompson. Through their work, Campt discusses how seeing — especially seeing Blackness — cannot be the passive act of simply looking; it must be actively felt with, through, and alongside the experiences of the Black artist. 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, Listening to Images, and other books. Elisheba Johnson Elisheba Johnson is a multimedia artist, curator, and organizer based in Seattle. Along with her father, Charles Johnson, she created the young adult science-fiction series, The Adventures of Emery Jones, Boy Science Wonder. She is also one of the co-founders of Wa Na Wari a Black arts center in Seattle's Central District that uses art to fight displacement. Buy the Book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/black-gaze  Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation click here. 

Visual art holds the extraordinary power to connect the dots between ideas or emotions, the person thinking or feeling them, and the outside viewer; but how might the viewer go beyond simply looking to experiencing art, in all its joys and especially in its challenges and discomforts? In the 114th episode of Town Hall's In the Moment podcast, Elisheba Johnson interviews Tina Campt about her latest book, A Black Gaze. In the book, Campt explores the work of eight contemporary Black artists who are shifting the nature of visual interactions with art and demanding that Blackness be seen anew. She considers, “Rather than looking at Black people, rather than simply multiplying the representation of Black folks, what would it mean to see oneself through the complex positionality that is Blackness — and work through its implications on and for oneself?” The featured artists' work includes the portraiture of Deana Lawson, the video of Arthur Jafa, the film of Khalil Joseph, the photography of Dawoud Bey, and the multimedia practices of Okwui Okpokwasili, Simone Leigh, and Luke Willis Thompson. Through their work, Campt discusses how seeing — especially seeing Blackness — cannot be the passive act of simply looking; it must be actively felt with, through, and alongside the experiences of the Black artist. 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, Listening to Images, and other books. Elisheba Johnson Elisheba Johnson is a multimedia artist, curator, and organizer based in Seattle. Along with her father, Charles Johnson, she created the young adult science-fiction series, The Adventures of Emery Jones, Boy Science Wonder. She is also one of the co-founders of Wa Na Wari a Black arts center in Seattle's Central District that uses art to fight displacement. Buy the Book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/black-gaze  Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation click here. 

Johannes and me meet for the first time in person to unpack his Blackademic work and our collaboration on Everyday Black Matter film. If you haven't watched the film yet; DO IT. This is one of many "talkback" kikis we'll host on this platform. Johannes is the lead musician on the film. After (virtually) working together to create a type of Black Matter we both vibe wit, I had to bring him on the podcast! *Special guest Aurora Higgs drops by to kiki about her scene in the film using Johannes's beat. Tune into *part 1 AND part 2*... It was too much tea for one ep. PSA: Ally and Comrades. Drop $AuroraHiggs and/or $JohannesBarfield some love for their work on Everyday Black Matter film [$$], cause we been out here and we need reparations now. Episode Reads Tina M. Campt, Listening to Images, Chaz Antoine and Crew, Everyday Black Matter (Film) Imagination of the Marginalized by bell hooks bell hooks, Black Vernacular: Architecture as Cultural Practice (article) Rebecca Walker and Crew, "The Geek" by Mat Johnson, found in Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness (anthology) *All beats featured in this episode by Johannes*