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What is called the imagination (from image, magi, magic, magician, etc.) is a practical vector from the soul. It stores all data, and can be called on to solve all our “problems.” The imagination is the projection of ourselves past our sense of ourselves as “things.” Imagination (image) is all possibility, because from the image, the initial circumscribed energy, any use (idea) is possible. And so begins that image’s use in the world. Possibility is what moves us.
—Amiri Baraka, “The Revolutionary Theatre”, Liberator, July 1965
Kalia Brooks Nelson
Kalia Brooks Nelson, PhD, is a New York based independent curator and writer. Brooks Nelson is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She holds a Ph.D. in Aesthetics and Art Theory from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, received her M.A. in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts, and was a Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program. Her recent curatorial projects have taken place with The International Center of Photography, New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Gracie Mansion Conservancy, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, and Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.
Curator and Writer