All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, directed by Raven Jackson, 2023 (still).
For the next installment of These Seasons, please join us for a lecture by scholar Tiffany Lethabo King. King's presentation, Eating at the Clay Banks, is a meditation on the various aesthetic practices that Black artists have used to depict Black dirt-eaters. The lecture will consider the different approaches that visual, conceptual, and literary artists have taken when representing Black geophagists and ask what the medium might tell us about the stakes of making dirt eating appear on the visual field and in literary scapes. King asks what various media—photography, moving images, novels, poems—reveal about the different stakes, anxieties, desires, and investments that animate what she calls the "Black geophagic imagination."
Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.
Tiffany Lethabo King is the Barbara and John Glynn Research Associate Professor of Democracy and Equity at the University of Virginia. She is a faculty member in the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. King is the author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies and is a co-editor of the collection Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti Blackness. King is also a co-director at the Black & Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute, a project funded by the Mellon Foundation.
These Seasons is an ongoing transdisciplinary public program that invites artists, scholars and writers to explore theories of nature, landscape, ecology, human and non-human life forms and climate action.
These Seasons is made possible by Teiger Foundation.