liberation Archives – Mn Artists

1Eiko Otake and Chitra Vairavan rehearsing in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine during an exhibit on the divine feminine, November 26, 2016. Photo: Wm Johnston.

Deep Listening: Creating from Memories and Speaking through Dance

Chitra Vairavan

Dancer and choreographer Chitra Vairavan offers a blueprint for the decolonized spiritual, as a movement towards reflection, presence, and memory.

1Talthau Lo, 2022.

Performing Arts

10-3-2022

Ha!: On Comedy, Performance, and Laughing for the Right Reasons

Devohn Bland

Literature

9-7-2022

Amir Locke from the View of a Kaleidoscope: A Prayer

Tikkun Bambara

1Vogue Night, Walker Art Center, 2018. Photo: Bobby Rogers.

Literature Moving Image Performing Arts

4-25-2022

You Can’t Have One Without Giving Side Eye to the Other: On the Entanglement of Gender and Genre

George Hoagland

1 Photo: Adja Gildersleve.

Performing Arts

8-2-2021

The Aftermath of Performative Allyship: A Century Comparison

Malick Ceesay

1Eiko Otake and Chitra Vairavan rehearsing in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine during an exhibit on the divine feminine, November 26, 2016. Photo: Wm Johnston.

Performing Arts

1-20-2021

Deep Listening: Creating from Memories and Speaking through Dance

Chitra Vairavan

1"Memorial for George Floyd - 38th and Chicago Avenue - South Minneapolis" by Tony Webster is licensed with CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Literature Visual Art

1-15-2021

Poly-fugitivity: Utopian Relations in Dystopian Structures

Tikkun Bambara

1Image courtesy of the author.

Literature Performing Arts

10-14-2020

In the face of Black death, I perpetually find myself slipping into an alternate dimension

Teighlor McGee

1Maiya Lea Hartman, The Black Experience via the White Gaze (2020).

Visual Art

9-14-2020

The Black Experience via the White Gaze

Maiya Hartman

1Amoke Kubat’s Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired Chair assembly and build workshop, in partnership with the Women’s Woodshop and the Water Bar, June 2019.

Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art

7-24-2020

REST: A Transatlantic Reflection

Ain Bailey, Sayge Carroll, Zenzele Isoke, Amoke Kubat, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, and Rehana Zaman

1Photo courtesy of Eric Avery.

Literature Performing Arts Visual Art

10-4-2019

Getting Out Letter 5: To my collaborators, colleagues, and friends; past, present, and future; near, far, and all over:

Eric Avery

Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art

4-10-2018

What Does a Black Liberation Future Look Like?

Free Black Dirt

1Photo by Bethanie Hines, courtesy of the Walker Art Center

Performing Arts Visual Art

3-21-2012

Roots of Change

Lightsey Darst