Watch back this in conversation event in which Tina M. Campt, feminist and theorist of visual culture and contemporary art, discusses her new book A Black Gaze with the award-winning artist and director Jenn Nkiru; and art historian and curator Zoé Whitley. Introductory remarks are provided by Autograph's senior curator, Renée Mussai.
Campt's book 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. It is a gaze that moves viewers from passive forms of looking at to the active struggle of looking with, through, and alongside the suffering and the joy of Black life in the present. Hailed by Art in America as "a methodological offering [and] a theory of what Blackness brings to making and viewing art, and to perception in general."
This was Autograph's first livestreamed event, filmed live from Autograph's exhibition Care | Contagion | Community — Self & Other in London on 12th October 2021. Please note the introduction has been truncated, and full speaker bios are provided below. Thank you to everyone who joined us, and for your support and patience as we learn new ways of opening up our programme. If you'd like to enable us to continue making more of our content available online, please consider donating to Autograph's arts and learning programmes.