From Garrett Bradley: Devotion, published by MIT Press. In this interview from 2019, the art historian Huey Copeland speaks with the artist and filmmaker Garrett Bradley on the occasion of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston exhibition Garrett Bradley: American Rhapsody. This text first appeared in the exhibition catalogue.America.Huey Copeland: I’d like to begin by talking about the ways you’re engaging the archive in your work, recruiting a range of different materials, even outtakes from your own films. Your process—mixing and working on different projects simultaneously—seems to resonate with but also exceed what scholar Saidiya Hartman calls “critical fabulation” in terms of posing the question, “How do we return to and engage the archive in order to reframe it with all of its liabilities and possibilities”?1 In this sense, your work also resonates with what I’ve recently called “black auto-citational practice,” a modality that...
- 3/25/2024
- MUBI
"In the city, black people are producing modern forms of life," says influential scholar and historian Saidiya Hartman in Arthur Jafa's brilliant docu-poem Dreams Are Colder Than Death. "These emergent formations are only recognizable on their initial appearance as monstrous....There's a history of black anarchism, an everyday practice of revolution against certain forms of property arrangement."
Though it appeared on no major best-of lists last year and only played the festival circuit, Dreams was one of 2014's best and most important films, the only one to unambiguously capture the transitional American and global moment in which we live. Plugged right into the zeitgeist, it's an exploration from the trenches of everything in play within the #BlackLivesMatter ...
Though it appeared on no major best-of lists last year and only played the festival circuit, Dreams was one of 2014's best and most important films, the only one to unambiguously capture the transitional American and global moment in which we live. Plugged right into the zeitgeist, it's an exploration from the trenches of everything in play within the #BlackLivesMatter ...
- 3/25/2015
- Village Voice
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