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C& Sound features a selection of discursive content published in C& Magazine. Listen to artist interviews, reviews, features, and opinions relating to crucial discussions around contemporary art.
Felicia Abban: Behind the Scenes
“The passport that does not pass ports”
The Consistency in Howardena Pindell’s Art and Defiance
Robert Reed: Re-entering the US American Art Canon
The Fantasy of Aspiration in the Paintings of Shannon Tamara Lewis
The Abstract Thinking of Mildred Thompson
Jack Whitten: A Painter’s Painter Gets His Long-Overdue Recognition
Looking Beyond Documentation of Afro-Iranians
Depictions of Queer Black Love for the Digital Age
How 1960s Algeria Became a “Mecca for revolutionaries”
"The spectacle of Black trauma“: Why Double Standards in Representation Need to End in the Arts
Depictions of Queer Black Love for the Digital Age
Art and Stereotypes: Playing with Race
Alma W. Thomas and the Treasures of the Natural World
Maren Hassinger: “We are not alive to make money”
What Collective Remembrance Is For
The Origins of Feminist Intersectionality
How Warhol Erased the Identity of His Black Trans Sitters
“Germanomania” and the Myth of Nationalism
Sam Gilliam: Between Structure and Improvisation
Mobility in the arts, geographical or otherwise, is often seen as almost a requirement. However, COVID-19 has put to the test this very idea and aspiration. In the series "States of Mobility" we have selected texts that probe assumptions of movement in relation to people on the African continent and beyond. In “The passport that does not pass ports” Elliot Ross comments on the bourgeois myth that globalization has turned everybody into ultra-mobile cosmopolitans.
Art historian Gürsoy Doğtaş analyses the power imbalances between Warhol and his BIPoC queer and trans sitters of lower Manhattan.