Presented By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study
The Visual Commons: Black Lives Matter
Nicholas Mirzoeff—Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University
This presentation shows how Black Lives Matter has formed a visual commons, meaning a space of appearance in which it is possible for Black people and those affiliated with revolutionary blackness to see and invent each other. In particular, Mirzoeff explores what the "Black" in #BLM has come to mean and how the visual commons was shaped by persistent looking in protest performance, specifically Hands Up, Don’t Shoot, and the die-ins.
Mirzoeff's own engagement with persistent looking has been through a close reading of the grand jury archive from the shootings of Michael Brown and Tamir Rice as part of an activist-academic refusal of white supremacy.
Sponsored by the Department of English Language and Literature, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Digital Studies Program, the Visual Culture Workshop, and the Center for Global and Intercultural Study.
Mirzoeff's own engagement with persistent looking has been through a close reading of the grand jury archive from the shootings of Michael Brown and Tamir Rice as part of an activist-academic refusal of white supremacy.
Sponsored by the Department of English Language and Literature, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Digital Studies Program, the Visual Culture Workshop, and the Center for Global and Intercultural Study.
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