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

Black Portraitures II

Media from the sessions of Black Portraiture{s} II

Welcome, May 29 from NYU Florence on Youtube.

Re-Significations: European Blackmoors, Africana Readings and More from NYU Florence on Youtube.

Black Italia from NYU Florence on Youtube.

Maaza Mengiste reads an excerpt from her forthcoming novel from NYU Florence on Youtube.

The Sweetest Taboo: Theorizing Black Female Pleasure, Agency and Desire within Black Feminism from NYU Florence on Youtube.

Activating Histories: Visualizing and Restaging the Archives from NYU Florence on Youtube.

Welcome, May 30 from NYU Florence on Youtube.

The Image of the Black in Western Art from NYU Florence on Youtube.

Out of Body: Composing Blackness through Sound, Music, and (Performance) Art from NYU Florence on Youtube.

Contemporary Art & Cultural Diplomacy: Art in Embassies Program Artists from NYU Florence on Youtube.

Sister Outsider: Black American Women, Identity and Global Travel from NYU Florence on Youtube.

Black Portraiture(s) II: Revisited

February 19–20, 2016, Washington Square, NYC

The Court Moor: Blackness, Servitude & the Artifice of Court Culture from NYU Photography and Imaging on Vimeo.

The Portrait & Studio Photography from NYU Photography and Imaging on Vimeo.

Creating Radical Spaces from NYU Photography and Imaging on Vimeo.

Re-creating Histories: Artists’ Speak from NYU Photography and Imaging on Vimeo.