“With a Dangerous Love” Visual Mixtape--a Project by Shamell Bell

'Shamell Bell presents a 'Visual Mixtape'--"With A Dangerous Love": working with the Black body, performance and dangerous love as praxis, resilience, magic against state sanctioned violence/white supremacy. This visual exploration embodies the continuity of struggle and resistance, and transhistorical and interdisciplinary merging. Again, the dancing Black body presents itself in this visual as two young children are dancing, pushing back at the afropessimism conceptions of Blackness and the everpresence death, but imagining Blackness as living as resisting and defying death. This visual mixtape displays the deep connection between arts as praxis of activism and Black love. I end with the “Pleasure/Liberation” mixtape which motivates the pulse of “With a Dangerous Love".' 
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