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Category: Literature

Person with dark skin and slightly open mouth, photo cropped between their top lip and their throat.
1Allison Bolah, No Accident, 2012. Video still. Courtesy the artist.

Noting the Throat/La garganta, anotada

Alcibíades Elián

Thinking through speech and power with artist Allison Bolah and writer Zahra Patterson: how the legacy of colonization shapes how mouths form consonants and vowels, and how Diasporic Black artists activate polymorphic uses of language

Tags: blacknessclassdecolonizationlanguagetranslation
Drawing of figure with white dress and long black hair holding onto a small train. Seven round signs float in yellow and gray background.
1Peng Wu, In Between Sleep and Wake, 2021.

Meditation on Sleep

Yuko Taniguchi

Sleep as travel, sleep as spirit, sleep as country, sleep as grammar, sleep as diversity, sleep as hospitality, sleep that catches you

Tags: dreamsImaginationimmigrationjapanlanguagePoetryprocesssleeptextile
Dark gray screen print of crowd with black text overlaid, reading: Something in me wondered, "What will happen to all the beauty?"
1Glenn Ligon, Untitled (Crowd/The Fire Next Time), 2000. Collection Walker Art Center.
Literature
3-21-2023

on craft, or a disordered logic for resurrection

Chaun Webster
Long, rough paper with solid dark markings hung horizontally on white wall.
1Jason Moran, Run 6, 2016. Collection Walker Art Center.
Literature Performing Arts
2-21-2023

don’t say spirit, say ghost

Chaun Webster
Person with medium dark skin and glasses wears lavender sweats and holds baby in lap, with person in armchair in background.
1Grandma and my oldest daughter, Sparta, Illinois, 2001. Photo courtesy the author.
Literature
2-3-2023

Fool’s Gold

Taiyon J Coleman
1
Literature
1-30-2023

Group Chat

V.V. Ganeshananthan
Person with light skin holds basket of tomatoes in her arms and smiles at the camera, with tall tomato plants behind her.
1Photo courtesy Marianne Combs.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
1-16-2023

Marianne Combs: Slow Tending Bears Fruit

Youa Vang
Digital illustration of a crow hovering over blue water, with starfruit in foreground, mountains in background, and a cloud of gold flakes in the air.
1UyenThi Tran Myhre, chia vàng, May 2021.
Literature Performing Arts
1-9-2023

Be Sweet, Stay Gold

UyenThi Tran Myhre
Group photo in dark wood frame hangs on wood paneled wall.
1Courtesy Kao Kalia Yang.
Literature
1-4-2023

In the Aftermath of Disappointment

Kao Kalia Yang
1
Literature
12-30-2022

Towards Opacity

Chaun Webster
Person wearing black dress and high heels strikes pose in wooden barn with string lights, large rug, and chairs on walls.
1Vie Boheme. Courtesy Everwood Farmstead.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
11-21-2022

Refuge and Rejuvenation: Artist Retreats of Minnesota and Wisconsin

Sheila Regan
Person sleeps on floor mat with pillow, inside tent-like structure made of white string.
1Peng Wu, Sleep Chapel, 2019. Pictured: Boris Oicherman. Courtesy Weisman Art Museum.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
11-16-2022

Institution as Living Artist, as Can Opener, as System Change

Miranda Trimmier
Black and white photo of tall, sparse tree growing at a 45-degree diagonal, surrounded by smaller trees.
1Pao Houa Her, untitled, Mt. Shasta series, 2021-2022. Courtesy the artist and Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis; produced with support from the Walker Art Center.
Literature Visual Art
10-7-2022

Forest of Beginnings

Mai Der Vang
Person stands on dirt path and leans back underneath tall street lamp at night.
Literature
9-7-2022

Amir Locke from the View of a Kaleidoscope: A Prayer

Tikkun Bambara

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