DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/72HS-4V96
Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/Again-Black-Again-ABA-BBABB
Defense Date
2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Fine Arts
First Advisor
Orla McHardy
Second Advisor
Semi Ryu
Third Advisor
MK Abadoo
Fourth Advisor
Cara Benedetto
Abstract
ABSTRACT
AGAIN BLACK AGAIN
by muthi reed, M.F.A
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Program Director: Stephen Vitiello
Committee: Semi Ryu, Orla McHardy, MK Abadoo, Cara Benedetto
AGAIN BLACK AGAIN. ABA-BBABB is documentation of a reparations practice and articulations for a reparations manifesto devised by the artist. Reparations begins with the self. Singing truth to the self. Talking with the self. The thesis organizes around the problems of surveillance and myth making about Black people and the subsequent source of self-regard, conjure and social dreaming that remain under threat of violence and in constant need of devotion. ABA-BBABB generates it's own coded algorithms that travel virtual and ancestral pathways using QR code, archival images and viral media material as eco locative subtext to an avatar Black Queer migrant experience. My artist approach articulates an immersive practice of spatial presence, speech and hwadu writing, posture and ritual performance acts, symbols, light and color imaging and long play offerings for a Black Sound that would support such a manifesto. Æffectively Black is…. as James Brown teaches us not a skin color. Black is an attitude.
Rights
© The Author
Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-13-2022
Comments
How, Who, Black? Black like the center of the universes. Black like all the ancients. Black like the people you would other. We need some protection. We need some peace.