Black Futurity w/ scholar & curator Dr. Tiffany E. Barber
Studio Noize welcomes Dr. Tiffany E. Barber to the fam! (no relation to your boy JBarber) Tiffany is a scholar, curator, and critic that has done some great work around the ideas of Afrofuturism. We talk about the roles of Black artists, her work on and with Wangeshi Mutu, how studio visits help her with curating, and her love of dance. We’re always excited to have high-level conversations about art with the scholars that are thinking about Black art. Another great conversation just for you.
Episode 116 topics include:
defining Black art
the complexities of Afrofuturism
Wangechi Mutu and Mary Sibande
studio visits with artists
curating exhibitions
how artists approach art
social media algorithms and art
artists getting recognized
Dr. Tiffany E. Barber
Tiffany E. Barber is a scholar, curator, and critic of twentieth and twenty-first century visual art, new media, and performance. Her work, which spans abstraction, Afrofuturism, dance, fashion, feminism, and the ethics of representation and aesthetic criticism, focuses on artists of the Black diaspora working in the United States and the broader Atlantic world. She is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Art History at the University of Delaware. She has completed fellowships at ArtTable, the Delaware Art Museum, and the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies. During the 2021-2022 academic year, Dr. Barber will be a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Getty Research Institute.
See More: www.tiffanyebarber.com + @tiffanyebarber
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