Sunday, May 31, 1 – 2:30pm
Tourmaline. Pollinator, 2022. Detail of video still. © Tourmaline. Courtesy of the artist and Chapter NY, New York
$10 on-site ; $8 online; members and students free
About the Talk
Our newest exhibition, Freedom Dreams, borrows its title from historian Robin D. G. Kelley’s seminal book Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002). Today, we are thrilled to host a conversation between Kelley and literary scholar Elleza Kelley that explores themes across the exhibition and the book, including radical imagination and the archive. The speakers will also touch on the late historian, writer, and journalist James G. Spady, a fixture in the artistic and cultural circles of Black Philadelphia.
Tourmaline. Pollinator, 2022. Video still. © Tourmaline. Courtesy of the artist and Chapter NY, New York
Speakers
Robin D. G. Kelley
Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in US History at UCLA and the author of several books, including Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original; Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times; and Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, Social Text, Frieze, The New York Review of Books, and Boston Review, for which he serves as contributing editor. Photo by Madelene Cronje
Elleza Kelley
Kelley is an assistant professor of English and Black studies at Yale University. Her forthcoming book, Flight Lines: A Poetics of Black Space, traces the relationship between Black geographies and Black aesthetics in African American literature and visual art.