A Black Gaze — Tina M. Campt In Conversation with Kimberly Drew

'In A Black Gaze, Tina Campt examines Black contemporary artists who are shifting the very nature of our interactions with the visual through their creation and curation of a distinctively Black gaze. Their work—from Deana Lawson's disarmingly intimate portraits to Arthur Jafa's videos of the everyday beauty and grit of the Black experience, from Khalil Joseph's films and Dawoud Bey's photographs to the embodied and multimedia artistic practice of Okwui Okpakwasili, Simone Leigh, and Luke Willis Thompson—requires viewers to do more than simply look; it solicits visceral responses to the visualization of Black precarity. Campt will be in conversation with Kimberly Drew, a writer, curator, and arts advocate. Inspired by Toni Morrison’s The Black Book, Drew is the editor of an anthology with Jenna Wortham titled Black Futures, which examines how creativity relates to black cultural identity in the age of social media. Additionally, she is the author of This Is What I Know About Art, part of the Pocket Change Collective series.' -- Politics and Prose