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Vini kouzen map mennen’w

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“Vini kouzen map mennen’w!”, in the title of the exhibition, translates as “Come on cousin, I’ll take you!”.  The bit of dialogue parallels a moment toward the end of Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby, when Thérèse volunteers to take Son to Isle de Chevaliers. Though partly blind, Thérèse insists on leading the way to a place where she thinks Son needs to be in order to make a better choice about his life, future, and in service to blackness; she encourages him to run toward the ancient and enchanted. It is, in essence, the best way to navigate this formulation of the Caribbean, through kinship and with the help of those we share deep affinities.

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[The Free birds] strive to overcome the immobilizing locality of continental and national ontologies and the modern/colonial predicament, the bleakness of the looming world of total surveillance but also inevitable self-limitations instead of thoughtless consumption and growth.

Madina Tlostanova, Of birds and trees: Rethinking decoloniality through unsettlement as a pluriversal human condition. Echo 2, 2020

Tina Campt on AAS Podcast

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Episode 8: A Black Gaze.

A Black Gaze is, it’s a framework. Well, I talk about it as a looking practice, and it is a looking practice that is not about how black people see. It is not a black perspective or black vantage point. It is not subjected in that particular way, and it is not collective in that particular way. Instead, it is a, a, practice of looking practice that positions you in relationship to blackness regardless of whether or not you are black or not.