Music Video as Black Art: Claiming the B-Side marks the 10-year anniversary of liquid blackness’ founding as a study group. September 21-23. Free and open to the public.

The event is presented by Liquid Blackness, Limited and the liquid blackness Project (www.liquidblackness.com) with generous support from a Terra Foundation of American Art Convening Grant. The Terra Foundation for American Art, established in 1978 and having offices in Chicago and Paris, supports organizations and individuals locally and globally with the aim of fostering intercultural dialogues and encouraging transformative practices that expand narratives of American art, through the foundation’s grant program, collection, and initiatives. 

The event is additionally supported by the University of Toronto’s Cinema Studies Institute and Global Classroom Initiative; Georgia State University’s College of the Arts, School of Film Media and Theatre, Center for Hellenic Studies, and Creative Media Industry Institute and the Office of the Vice president for Research & Economic Development; the Department of Film and Media at Emory University, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Ranged Touch podcasting network, a host of community supporters from the extended liquid blackness community, and in intellectual partnership with the Academy for Diaspora Literacy, Inc.’s Guardians of Heritage. 

Program: 

• Panel 1—3:30-5:00pm: “Curating Ensembles–Curating for Sound,”
  with Ekow Eshun, Elissa Blount Moorhead, Mark Anthony Neal.

•  Panel 2—5:30-7:00pm: “Black study as aesthetic practice”
  with Kara Keeling, Stefano Harney and filmmakers

RSVP recommended