Black Meme Reading Group
Black Meme Reading Group
Jan
21
Tue
16:00 – 19:00
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mist
Black Meme reading group
Tuesdays 21st Jan, Feb 4th & 18th, 2025 from 16:00-19:00
Final reading group on Saturday 1st March, 12:30-15:30
Warmly welcome to the Black Meme reading group, running throughout January, February and the beginning of March 2025 at the Museum of Impossible Forms. The series will culminate in a launch with author Legacy Russell joining in-person for a round-table discussion at Tekstin Talo on the evening of 1st March.
Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us (Verso, 2024) is a new publication by Legacy Russell. It analyses images of Blackness and their circulation through frameworks of feminism, visual culture and Black studies. The book traces the virality of images of Black life and its violent annihilation, from the birth of photography and cinema in the late nineteenth century, all the way up to online culture today.
Legacy Russell is a curator and writer based in New York City. She is the Executive Director & Chief Curator of The Kitchen, NYC’s oldest experimental intermedia gallery. Formerly she was the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Their academic, curatorial, and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry, and new media ritual.
The reading group is convened by curator Helen Kaplinsky, artist Vishnu Vardhani Rajan, and the Museum of Impossible Forms. Different guests will join each session, including curator and philosopher Päiviö Maurice Omwami and artist Sasha Huber.
Follow link in bio to sign-up form, registration ends 11th January 2025.
For enquires email ccc@pixelache.ac (Convivial Complaint Cell)
The event is kindly supported by @taikegram and @thefciny
Tue 21 Jan 2025 16:00 – 19:00

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