Course Name: The Black Embodiments Studio
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Term: Winter 2020
The Black Embodiments Studio is a critical arts writing incubator that explores enactments of, and arts criticism surrounding, black embodiments in contemporary art. Residents meet for daylong intensives January 17-18 and February 29-March 1 to discuss diverse models of writing on black embodiments and to gain intimate contact with artists, curators, and scholars whose
work on black embodiments models innovation, accessibility, and criticality. Over the course of the quarter, residents will visit 5 exhibitions and develop their own short-form arts criticism.
Interested graduate students and postgraduates should submit a 2-page letter of inquiry in PDF format to Dr. Kemi Adeyemi (kadeyemi@uw.edu) by 5 pm PST on December 20, 2019. This letter should detail the applicant’s critical practice, how thinking through black embodiments and contemporary art may be generative to it, and what they hope to gain through The Black Embodiments Studio. Ten residents will be notified of their acceptance by December 25, 2019.
2 credit microseminar || HUM 596A
critical writing + blackness + aesthetics
blackembodiments.org
The Black Embodiments Studio is produced in collaboration with the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and is supported by the Simpson Center for the Humanities.