2025 SPE Annual Conference: Adaptation
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Visualizing Resistance Decolonized Aesthetics and Subverting Dominant Narratives
Robin North
Saturday, March 23 - 10:30AM to 11:30AM
Majestic DE
Robin North will discuss his body of work titled "Decolonized Aesthetics," a series of platinum palladium prints that depict contemporary African Americans' re-examination of photography and its intersection with history, the ways the medium was used to perpetuate racist stereotypes concerning Black bodies, and the history of unpaid labor and the economic engine of cotton. The project considers the Black body and Black agency through the purview of the Black Atlantic world. It serves as a mechanism to reconceptualize and reinterpret the camera as the master's tool. Building on the work of Audre Lorde, North uses the "master's tools" to represent theoretical and Visual Anthropological approaches that place him in the local cultures and provide a visual storytelling approach to educate and decolonize knowledge free of Western narratives and aesthetics. Through his research-based conceptual visual arts practice, North aims to challenge these narratives and structures about race and decolonize knowledge within the theoretical lens of Paul Gilroy's concept of the "Black Atlantic."
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