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Postcards to the Future: HORRIFIC / Duriel E. Harris
In this long poem, Duriel E. Harris uses the list as a formal device to show an accumulation of the concepts of danger, horror, memory, within/through the body and the outside forces that surround the body. He Who Fights with Monsters by Duriel E. Harris [excerpt] How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness …
Postcards to the Future: HORRIFIC / Adrian Piper
In this work, pioneering conceptual artist, scholar, and philosopher Adrian Piper presents one of the earlier victims of racial brutality in the second decade of this century, Trayvon Martin. “In one of her most well known works, “Self-Portrait as a Nice White Lady,” the figure in the rendering proclaims “Whut Choo Lookin at Mofo?” in …
Postcards to the Future: HORRIFIC / Dawn Lundy Martin
How does one approach writing about trauma? In this interview excerpt co-editor Dawn Lundy Martin negotiates the waters between memory, catharsis, normalization, destabilization and social change. This interview between Dawn Lundy Martin and Elizabeth Burden took place in Tucson’s KXCI Community Radio Congress Street studio in October 2018. The full interview will be released in …
Postcards to the Future: A Protest in Place / HORRIFIC
OCTOBER 13, 2020 Kore Press Institute continues its feature focusing on the radical aesthetics of Black women writers from Letters to the Future: Black Women/Radical Writing, (edited by Erica Hunt and Dawn Lundy Martin, 2018). We are offering a thematic presentation/installation of work through January as a form of protest in place. KPI has been committed to …
Postcards to the Future: A Protest in Place
Postcards to the Future: A Protest in Place / LEGACY July 6, 2020 Kore Press is closed for the month of July as we do every year. However, because of the intensity of activist movements for the freedom and safety of Black people occurring into the summer, we didn’t want our website and other public …