HeyJaredQuiet Parts by Alyssa Gaines
You are now entering my studio — A retired loudmouth, super niche lady studying Art History & Political Theory @ Harvard considering how art, feeling, and culture shape political life.
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we need better fantasies (opens the original)
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On the note of representation, of struggle movies and trauma porn and the Baldwin-Hills- “A24 Blacks”-fication of everything from Fresh Prince to A Different World— which enter into a rigid, fixed discourse and make arguments that “dredge up” things people do or don’t understand about blackness—fantasy is a triangulation. Fantasy does not say “we are not this” or “we are that.” Fantasy does not limit itself to what is and what is not. Fantasy is inventive and exciting. Fantasy is a salve and a s
if rap is dead (opens the original)
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…A convincing proposition which begs the question whether any black liberatory movement can be without sound? A question which then directs us to listen to movement’s organization and try to rebuild the sonics from all that remains…In the 1960s and 1970s, Malian photographer Malick Sidibé captured a new vision of West Africa entering into the necessarily postmodern experience of postcolonial bliss. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o-wJ!,f
i graduated from harvard (oh no!) (opens the original)
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There’s a painting in the Harvard Art Museums’ collections I return to often. My first encounter with it was during Art of the Black World my Junior Fall. Little was written about the work and I was tasked with a visual analysis and close-read. It was surprisingly difficult, and thus the composition became permanently mesmerizing to me perhaps as a consequence. On the second floor, in the room with European and American Art from the 17th to the 19th century: The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Legacy,
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