Read Unknown States, our latest issue, which dissects the myths, stories, and fictions that give rise to nations and nationalities. Now online: http://canopycanopycanopy.com/issues#27
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Read a poem excerpted from Ari Banias’s A Symmetry (W. W. Norton & Company, 2021) in our twenty-seventh issue, and order the book here: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393868135
“Your thoughts scatter / to their familiar positions.” A poem on the boundaries and dispersal of the self.
“Bordowitz figures himself out in real time, drawing on philosophical lineages and artistic legacies that speak to me but also make me feel like an outsider, a visitor to someone else’s home. Yet there’s something across the chasm of times and bodies that I find irresistible about the act of monologuing, about Bordowitz’s digressions and riffs, which intersect and accumulate until they resemble the arc of a life. I’m familiar with the drive and reluctance to assimilate; I catch echoes of my own interactions and fixations, my own desire for new affiliations and accidental solidarities, my own draft of a narrative.”
Read Hua Hsu’s introduction to Gregg Bordowitz’s Some Styles of Masculinity (Triple Canopy, 2021) in the Nation.
How the writer, artist, and activist exposes what is fraught in masculinity.
Watch a video of our virtual listening session with Harmony Holiday and Fred Moten, in which they ask what we hear in live recordings in the pandemic era.
A listening session that asks what we hear in live music in the pandemic era, after months without sweaty audiences and deafening speakers.This video is a re...
The Publishing and Technology Fellowship will provide hands-on training and professional development for someone who is invested in the intersection of web development, design, and creative publishing. Read more and apply: https://bit.ly/3zByhKL
The Publishing and Technology Fellowship will provide hands-on training and professional development for someone who is invested in the intersection of web development, design, and creative publishing. Read more and apply: https://bit.ly/3zByhKL
Join Gregg Bordowitz and Fred Moten at Artbook at MoMA PS1 (and streaming) on October 2 at 6 p.m. to celebrate the launch of Bordowitz’s new book, Some Styles of Masculinity (Triple Canopy, 2021). Bordowitz and Moten, friends and frequent correspondents, will discuss the performance and consumption of ethnicity in music and comedy; the story of Exodus and the promise of diaspora; and the role of culture in combating bigotry and claiming rights, especially in times of upheaval and plague.
A conversation about how people are shaped by assimilation and marginalization—and by rock stars, rabbis, and comedians.
Watch documentation of a conversation between Zakaria Almoutlak, Karthik Pandian, Andros Zins-Browne, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Evan Calder Williams. They considered how lives and histories are defined and reconfigured in the creation, circulation, destruction, and reconstruction of monuments, especially given the recent efforts to dismantle those honoring agents of colonialism and slavery. https://bit.ly/3szdcPb
Register for tonight's free virtual event with Harmony Holiday and Fred Moten to receive the Zoom link: https://www.addevent.com/event/VC7966218
Register for tonight's free virtual event with Harmony Holiday and Fred Moten to receive the Zoom link: https://www.addevent.com/event/VC7966218
We're hiring a Development Intern to work 16 hours per week at $18/hour for the fall school semester. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/ccc-internship2021
We're hiring a Development Intern to work 16 hours per week at $18/hour for the fall school semester. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/ccc-internship2021
Listen to “RAGE (After Tokyo 2020),” a mix by Japanese DJ and activist Mars89. Mixing industrial noise, protest music, and deconstructions of traditional Japanese instruments, Mars89 channels the widespread anger in and beyond Japan not only at the Olympics—a self-aggrandizing indulgence pushed through by the country’s elites during a pandemic, at incredible cost to the people—but at Japanese conservatism.
He describes the government’s campaign to bring the Olympics to Tokyo (while concealing the extent of the Fukushima disaster), and to go on with the Games despite the dire circumstances and popular opposition, as a “death voyage”—and as in line with the country’s deep-seated crony capitalism, sexism, xenophobia, and racism, among other defects. But the mix also includes music that provides Mars89 and fellow dissenters with the energy (and soundtrack) to pierce the telegenic facade and expose the reality beyond the empty stadiums, antiseptic dormitories, and lurid pageantry.
https://bit.ly/2Xo2mAf
A mix in response to the Tokyo Olympics, and in opposition to hollow celebrations of national identity and false displays of unity.
“The great claim of the state is to deliver rule of law to everybody who lives within the territory, right? In that sense, the state doesn’t distinguish between citizen and non-citizen. The nation, on the other hand, claims to represent a group that exercises ‘self-determination.’ That group is defined by culture—whether through religion, ethnicity, or tribe—and identified with a piece of land. As a result, the nation-state produces minorities that live within the state but do not belong to the nation.”
A conversation about the colonial roots of the nation-state, the fabrication of “timeless” identities, and the purging of minorities.
Update: This event has been rescheduled. RSVP here: https://bit.ly/3CLW1yw
On Tuesday, August 17, at 7 EDT, we’re hosting a virtual listening session with Harmony Holiday and Fred Moten. To mark the tentative return of public gatherings, they’ll listen to recordings of live performances and ask: why do we yearn for the experience of seeing performers (and joining audiences) in the flesh?
A listening session that asks what we hear in live music in the pandemic era, after months without sweaty audiences and deafening speakers.
Now online: Ilana Harris-Babou’s “Healing of the Nations,” a series of videos that examine the vexed legacy of Dr. Sebi, one of the world’s most famous (and mythologized) dieticians. His brand of herbalism for Black people amounted to a vision of pan-Africanism, attracting charges of fraud—and a cult following that has continued to grow, even after his suspicious death in 2016.
A video work that examines the vexed legacy of one of the world’s most famous (and mythologized) dieticians.
Forthcoming from Triple Canopy: Some Styles of Masculinity, by the artist, writer, and activist Gregg Bordowitz, with an introduction by Hua Hsu. Preorder the book below.
A book of lessons in identity from rock stars, rabbis, and comedians; an account of thinking and enduring through upheaval and plague.
“Four Songs without Z,” published in our new issue, is a suite of songs that is part of a years-long collaboration between the artists Karthik Pandian, Andros Zins-Browne, and Zakaria Almoutlak—a sculptor from Homs who joined the Syrian revolution in 2011 and later fled to Belgium, where he now lives—that renders Almoutlak’s experience through sculpture and vocal performance. The singers, Ganavya Doraiswamy and Aliana de la Guardia, improvise as they move between lyrics, weaving fragments of Almoutlak's life together, migrating his stories into melodies from a range of popular, folk, and classical genres.
https://bit.ly/3pPrMkp
🎥: Excerpt from “Actor,” one of the songs included in “Four Songs without Z.”
“She thought: Above all, I will talk about the Chagossian people, the former inhabitants of the island and archipelago, the living, the exiled—in Victoria, Port Louis, Manchester, Crawley—as well as the generations of dead; I will connect the social death forced upon the Chagossians to the structures of intercontinental superexploitation too deep to trace through fiction…”
A fiction about two writers and best friends who spin personal and political connections to a remote, militarized atoll in the Indian Ocean.
Light Shows—a program we presented with Wendy's Subway to celebrate two recent publications by Benjamin Krusling—is streaming on our website. Krusling created a video that incorporated excerpts from his debut book of poems, Glaring (Wendy’s Subway, 2020), and his digital series of poems, “i have too much to hide” (Triple Canopy, 2021), as well as new work. Asiya Wadud and S*an D. Henry-Smith contributed videos that feature readings of poetry, and Jibade-Khalil Huffman and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste created new video and sound works.
https://bit.ly/363E2os
🎥: Excerpt from Untitled by Jibade-Khalil Huffman
“The ‘new man’ conjured by Fascism seems paradoxical in theory, but my grandfather embodied the type: he fetishized individual strength and self-reliance but always seemed to be waiting for someone to tell him what to do, to deliver him from the confusions of democracy. He was frightened by the plurality of ideas and opinions, the gristmill of doubts and uncertainties. Even as a child I could tell that, for all his posturing, Giorgio was deeply insecure: the fall of Fascism left him without a sense of purpose or progress, so he clung to ideas he’d imbibed in his adolescence.”
An essay on the inheritance of fascism and the trials of becoming a “new man,” whether through conflict, reckoning, or rebranding.
“Nations continue to tell and retell the foundational stories that bind people together by fostering competition and coherence, animus and pride, whether in official statements or popular entertainment. But they must expect those stories to be demeaned as too fictitious, and the nation to be dismissed as too much—or too recent—an artifice.”
An essay on fictional homelands, Potemkin nations, and wonders of the industrial world.
“Which is real, Yazygia or France, and to which of them are you lying?”
In Nina Yargekov’s “Dual Nationality,” the narrator consults a stuffed animal and a basil plant—and weathers prying questions from haughty Parisian concertgoers—while choosing which country, France or the semi-fictional Yazygia, to claim as a homeland. Read a new translation by Daria Cherneysheva.
https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/27/contents/dual-nationality
A fiction about an amnesiac who must choose between two nations, two languages, two identities. Translated by Daria Chernysheva.
Tonight at 5:30 p.m. EDT, we’re presenting Liner Notes 2, the second in a series of virtual events organized by Karthik Pandian and Andros Zins-Browne in conjunction with “Four Songs without Z,” a suite of songs published as part of our twenty-seventh issue. Written with Zakaria Almoutlak and performed by Ganavya Doraiswamy and Aliana de la Guardia, the songs tell the story of Almoutlak, a Syrian sculptor who fights the regime and then flees to Belgium.
Pandian and Zins-Browne will be joined by Almoutlak, M. NourbeSe Philip, and—via video transmission—Evan Calder Williams to consider how lives and histories are defined and reconfigured in the creation, circulation, destruction, and reconstruction of monuments, especially given the recent efforts to dismantle those honoring agents of colonialism and slavery.
Get the Zoom link here: https://www.addevent.com/event/EC6808547
Tonight at 5:30 p.m. EDT, we’re presenting Liner Notes 2, the second in a series of virtual events organized by Karthik Pandian and Andros Zins-Browne in conjunction with “Four Songs without Z,” a suite of songs published as part of our twenty-seventh issue. Written with Zakaria Almoutlak and performed by Ganavya Doraiswamy and Aliana de la Guardia, the songs tell the story of Almoutlak, a Syrian sculptor who fights the regime and then flees to Belgium.
Pandian and Zins-Browne will be joined by Almoutlak, M. NourbeSe Philip, and—via video transmission—Evan Calder Williams to consider how lives and histories are defined and reconfigured in the creation, circulation, destruction, and reconstruction of monuments, especially given the recent efforts to dismantle those honoring agents of colonialism and slavery.
Get the Zoom link here: https://www.addevent.com/event/EC6808547
Considering the Capitol rioters and Three Percenters—as well as ideologues such as the GOP phenom Madison Cawthorn and the anonymous manifesto writer known as Bronze Age Pervert—Elizabeth Schambelan’s new essay for Triple Canopy dissects the myth of the warrior-fraternity and the paramilitary symbols and creeds that have dominated the far-right nationalist imagination.
https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/27/contents/unknown-soldiers
An essay on reinventing the nation as a brotherhood of wolves—and what to wear to the civil war.
We’ve just published the first contributions to our twenty-seventh issue, Unknown States.
https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/27
The issue asks: How do fictions give rise to nations and nationalities? How do those fictions work, and for whom? Unknown States considers the narratives that organize people (and capital) along national lines, which manifest in constitutions and flags, but also in novels, paintings, homewares, garments, industrial parks, diets, and PR strategies. Given the recent rise of nationalist and populist movements around the world, Unknown States asks how these fictions might be dissected, revised, and rewritten—not only to question the bonds imposed by nations, but to facilitate radically different ways of understanding and organizing people.
The first installment of the issue includes essays, fictions, and songs that address Potemkin homelands; the roots of white nationalism in ancient fraternal orders; imaginary friends and European countries; the inheritance of Italian fascism; the fictionalization of exiles from a militarized island in the Indian Ocean; and stories of statelessness told through song and stone. The issue is introduced with an essay by Triple Canopy senior editor Matthew Shen Goodman. Contributors include Elizabeth Schambelan; Nina Yargekov (translated by Daria Chernysheva); André Naffis-Sahely; Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams; and Karthik Pandian and Andros Zins-Browne with Zakaria Almoutlak, Aliana de la Guardia, and Ganavya Doraiswamy.
More contributions will be published—and public programs announced—in the coming weeks. We look forward to reading, listening, viewing, and thinking with you.
How might the story of a life be told through song? How might collective improvisation act as a vessel for endless variation, remaking tradition, and retelling old stories (in order to imagine new ones)?
Tomorrow, June 10, at 5:30 p.m. EDT, the artists Karthik Pandian and Andros Zins-Browne will address these questions in a virtual conversation, listening session, and concert with Hanif Abdurraqib, a writer (and, most recently, author of A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance), and Ganavya Doraiswamy, a singer and performer. The event will be presented in conjunction with the publication of a related audiovisual work—previewed here—by Pandian and Zins-Browne with Zakaria Almoutlak, Aliana de la Guardia, and Doraiswamy in our twenty-seventh issue, which launches tomorrow.
Register for the free event here: https://www.addevent.com/event/xU6808511
In case you missed it: all six episodes of the first season of our new podcast, Medium Rotation, are now available. The first season, Omniaudience, emerges from a public engagement residency of the same name at the Hammer Museum . The six episodes ask how we understand ourselves and others through listening—and what the obstacles to listening reveal about our society.
Co-hosts Nikita Gale and Alexander Provan speak with—and present compositions, monologues, and oral histories by—Harmony Holiday, Derica Shields, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, and Tashi Wada. Topics include: the revelation of arena concerts; the relationship between Black music (and silence) and legacies of enslavement and segregation; the welfare state as experienced by Black people and listening as a means of combating stigma; technologies that muddle the distinction between human- and machine-made music; the uses and abuses of bass (as a way to repulse people or bring them together); and the role of the music industry in determining whose voices are amplified and whose are silenced.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/26/contents/medium-rotation-season-1-omniaudience
In case you missed it: all six episodes of the first season of our new podcast, Medium Rotation, are now available. The first season, Omniaudience, emerges from a public engagement residency of the same name at the Hammer Museum . The six episodes ask how we understand ourselves and others through listening—and what the obstacles to listening reveal about our society.
Co-hosts Nikita Gale and Alexander Provan speak with—and present compositions, monologues, and oral histories by—Harmony Holiday, Derica Shields, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, and Tashi Wada. Topics include: the revelation of arena concerts; the relationship between Black music (and silence) and legacies of enslavement and segregation; the welfare state as experienced by Black people and listening as a means of combating stigma; technologies that muddle the distinction between human- and machine-made music; the uses and abuses of bass (as a way to repulse people or bring them together); and the role of the music industry in determining whose voices are amplified and whose are silenced.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/26/contents/medium-rotation-season-1-omniaudience
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We've just published Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's "Listening," a poem on perception (and an exaltation of the senses), as part of our latest issue. https://bit.ly/2XbLrh7
“The notion of diasporas taking shape online and touching down in Honduras or Taiwan might seem far-fetched. But COVID-19 is accelerating the shift toward remote work and is likely to expand the number of people who can think flexibly about where they live. And the virus has inflicted on the world a concentrated experiment in comparative governance, exposing the strengths and weaknesses of each jurisdiction and political system. How will cities and nation-states respond if more and more people can change where they live?” Read “On the Next Economy,” Christopher Kulendran Thomas’s contribution to #PartsofSpeech, published in collaboration with Public Fiction. The work is a fairytale about the origins and eventual demise of nations, and the role of technology in transforming conceptions of home, work, and governance, punctuated by a series of “video polemics” made in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann . “On the Next Economy” also acts as a manifesto for the Berlin-based R&D studio New Eelam, which is developing a co-op-esque housing network that will enable members to freely access homes in multiple cities. (Kulendran Thomas, an artist and entrepreneur, is part of the Tamil diaspora; he named New Eelam after a term that translates as “home” but also refers to the historic Tamil homeland in what is now Sri Lanka.) https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/26/contents/i26-on-the-next-economy
“Over time, the evolution of the species through technologies for transportation, logistics, and communication enabled more and more humans to make the whole world home. Then a devastating plague descended, threatening hundreds of millions of lives. Rulers had always been charged with protecting their citizens, whether from barbarians or natural disasters. But this plague threatened people around the world, at the same time. Each ruler of each nation was tested simultaneously. And, thanks to new communication technologies, people everywhere saw which nations, governments, and political systems really could protect them and which couldn’t.” Experience “On the Next Economy,” by Christopher Kulendran Thomas: a fairytale about nation-states, migration, and technological upheaval, punctuated by a series of “video polemics” made in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann. https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/26/contents/i26-on-the-next-economy
“As more and more jobs are automated, the future of work looks increasingly like what artists do: move from project to project, from city to city, tethered to a laptop rather than an office or factory. Perhaps, then, the home, rather than the office or factory, is becoming the primary site and means of production—and of the transformation of the economy beyond waged labor. Which raises the question: how could the home be reorganized through collective ownership?” Read “On the Next Economy,” Christopher Kulendran Thomas’s contribution to #PartsofSpeech, published in collaboration with Public Fiction. His fairy tale and series of “video polemics,” made in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann, questions the origins and future of nations and homelands. The project is also a manifesto for the Berlin-based R&D studio New Eelam, which is developing a co-op-esque housing network that will enable members to freely access homes in multiple cities. https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/26/contents/i26-on-the-next-economy
COVID-19 is testing the competence of governments, testing the ability of nations to protect their citizens. And if they fail, citizens might leave for more capable, equitable states—or look for something else entirely, something other than states. For #PartsofSpeech, Christopher Kulendran Thomas envisions a world after the pandemic in which citizenship is untethered from borders, networks replace nations, and streamable homes are inhabited by “reverse diasporas.” His contribution, “On the Next Economy,” is a fairy tale about an ancient civilization, technological upheaval, and the unraveling of nation-states. The work is punctuated by a series of “video polemics” made in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann, and accompanied by a conversation with Glen Weyl, the coauthor of Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society and founder of Radical Exchange. “On the Next Economy” is adapted from a speech of the same name delivered on May 21, 2019, as a contribution to “Parts of Speech,” an exhibition organized by Triple Canopy and Public Fiction with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/26/contents/i26-on-the-next-economy
“When you see a hog, you see a garbage disposal; when you see a little bird, you see … whatever he wants to be.” In “On Labor and Management,” the comedian and writer Julio Torres gives voice to Maurice—the hog that lives under the sink in the Flintstones’ bedrock house—who works day and night as a garbage disposal for the family’s waste. He petitions the boss (Wilma Flintstone) for a promotion, only to realize that his dead-end job is destiny. The publication consists of a video of the speech with an animation by Lucy Jones, commissioned for the occasion, as well as the script. “On Labor and Management” is adapted from a speech of the same name, which Torres delivered on May 24, 2019 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago as a contribution to Parts of Speech, an exhibition at the museum organized by Triple Canopy and Public Fiction. Visit the link in our profile to view the project in full. https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/26/contents/i26-on-labor-and-management
“This music, at the core, proves that being an individual and being a collective aren’t at odds. It proves that creative human expression and creative humanistic exchange can happen for reasons other than profit and wealth. It proves that we all are better as human beings than we are told we are. And that’s a dangerous notion; it’s one we have to fight for.” For Parts of Speech, the cellist and composer Tomeka Reid improvises music and words with Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet), Mike Reed (drums), and Ugochi Nwaogwugwu (vocals), who reflect on audiences of accountants and doctors, improvisation as speech and resistance, and “great Black music” after Armageddon. The publication consists of a video documenting the performance and an edited transcript of the conversation. “On Onomatopoeia” is adapted from a performance of the same name, which occurred on May 17, 2019, at Rebuild Foundation's Stony Island Arts Bank, as a contribution to “Parts of Speech,” an exhibition organized by Triple Canopy and Public Fiction with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/26/contents/i26-on-onomatopoeia
“A friend of mine who performs as a mime reminded me that, as a form of public speech, pantomime evolved similarly across cultures because the problems to be solved are fundamental. How do you amplify messages across distances too vast to be traversed by speech? How do you extend speech beyond the sound of the voice?” In a performance and lecture, the artist Steffani Jemison and the mime Garrett Gray ask how, without language, we speak and are heard; how we know and are known by the world; and how information passes from body to body to body to body. The publication consists of the script of the initial lecture, video documentation of Jemison and Gray’s rehearsals, and a new series of drawings by Jemison. “On Similitude” is adapted from a performance of the same name, which occurred on April 26, 2019, at Chicago’s South Shore Cultural Center, as a contribution to “Parts of Speech,” an exhibition organized by Triple Canopy and Public Fiction with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/26/contents/i26-on-similitude
As the saying goes: If you owe the bank one hundred dollars, the bank owns you. But if you owe the bank one hundred million dollars, you own the bank. On February 15, 2019, Astra Taylor and Laura Hanna convened an assembly of the indebted at Chicago’s Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. Participants shared accounts of predatory lenders and machinic collectors, of being shamed and isolated. And, together, they asked how to make themselves heard above the speech bought by creditors. As Hanna asserted during the convening: “We can’t pay—and, at a certain point, we’re going to need to say, ‘We’re not going to pay.’” Organized under the auspices of the Debt Collective, a membership organization that has cancelled hundreds of millions of dollars in medical and student debt, the assembly aimed to change the way debt is understood and debtors are treated. The publication consists of a video with excerpts of the assembly and a conversation between the organizers and Triple Canopy senior editor Maya Binyam. “On What We Owe” is adapted from a speech of the same name, as a contribution to Parts of Speech, an exhibition organized by Triple Canopy and Public Fiction with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/26/contents/i26-on-what-we-owe
“When all the talk is of who is a real American, it takes courage to ask: who is unreal?” For Parts of Speech, Hari Kunzru, a novelist and critic, details how to write the truth under fascism, as uniformed brutes round up dissenters and politicians insist on an alternative reality. Kunzru rewrites Bertolt Brecht’s 1935 essay “Five Difficulties in Writing the Truth,” and relates the emergence of twentieth-century fascism to the situation in today’s so-called democracies. Kunzru offers antidotes to the distractions, distortions, misinformation, and harassment campaigns that hamper our capacity to speak—and spread and weaponize—the truth. And he identifies those who decry barbarism and risk nothing, those who merely crave “the status of being a truth teller.” The publication of “On the Difficulties in Writing the Truth” consists of an essay and a video that represents—or misrepresents—a speech of the same name. Kunzru’s speech was delivered on March 12, 2019, at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre as a contribution to “Parts of Speech,” an exhibition organized by Triple Canopy and Public Fiction with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/26/contents/i26-on-the-difficulties-in-writing-the-truth
How do artworks and decor—as well as fictions and fashions—give rise to nations and nationalities? What do they tell viewers about how to look and act, what and whom to value? How has the United States been shaped through the consumption and display of such goods, as well as the subjugation of the people whose labor or likenesses mark them? For “Raid the Icebox Now,” an exhibition at the RISD Museum, Triple Canopy created Can I Leave You?, a multimedia installation that considers the role of early American decorative arts in the formation of a common identity. Triple Canopy also commissioned a capsule collection and campaign video by the collective and fashion label CFGNY, which are included in the installation. Can I Leave You? centers on the efforts of Americans to define themselves through products and portrayals of China, whether via porcelain bowls or travelogues, whether out of admiration or animus. The installation is divided between the Museum’s Pendleton House and a nearby gallery. Multiple works are linked by an epistolary narrative that scrutinizes facile fictions of China and Chinese people from the Colonial era to the present, as well as expressions of dissonance and harmony in early American rituals and music. Now on view at the RISD Museum through July 19, 2020. https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/series/can-i-leave-you/contents/can-i-leave-you-at-the-r-i-s-d-museum
We’ve just closed issue 25, Resentment, our issue devoted to reclaiming resentment, especially as harbored by those who are used to fits of anger and bitterness being called unproductive, petty, selfish, even pathological. Read (or revisit) essays, poems, conversations, readings, digital artworks, and recordings by Goldin+Senneby & Lina Ekdahl, Saretta Morgan, mouthfeel (S*an D. Henry-Smith & Imani Elizabeth Jackson), The New Red Order, Aki Sasamoto, and Wendy Xu, among others. https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/the-conclusion-of-issue-25-resentment
Calling all disciples of the dance floor: Our 2019 benefit after-party is only one week away! Dance with us at Jing Fong Restaurant on Tuesday, November 12 from 9:30pm-1am. DJ sets by RIOBAMBA_dj & Donis. Entry is free 💥 Photo of Riobamba by Guarionex Rodriguez, Jr. Photo of Donis by RAVERBABA. More information here: https://bit.ly/2oQMx4b
Tonight, at 6:45PM, we’re showing Spike Lee’s “Bamboozled.” It’s the last night of On Resentment, a series of films on identity and representation, violence and ownership, revolutions and dead ends, presented with BAM!
This weekend, On Resentment, our film series with @bamfilmbrooklyn continues. The wide-ranging series examines political anger, identity and representation, revolutions and dead ends, through the following films: “Petition,” “Who Killed Vincent Chin?,” “Zama,” “A Separation,” “Dr. Strangelove,” “If…,” and “Manila in the Claws of Light.” Come for the resentment-fueled films, with introductions by scholar Paul Nadal & TC senior editors Maya Binyam (@new__trick) and Emily Wang. To buy tickets, follow the link in bio. • [Clip from "A Separation (dir. Asghar Farhadi, 2011).]
Tomorrow at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in Chicago: Astra Taylor delivers the first lecture of our #PartsOfSpeech exhibition with Public Fiction at @Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She and Laura Hanna organize an assembly to amplify and organize the voices of debtors.
