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Interview Details
Title & Link
‘Black People Work from the Position of “We”’: An Interview with Carrie Mae Weems | Frieze
Publish Date
October 25, 2019
Interviewees
Carrie Mae Weems
Interviewers
Edward Gillman
,
Jack O'Brien
Publisher
Frieze
Topics
Aretha Franklin
artistic responsibility
Biography
Black British artists
blackness representation
community
Cooking
curatorial practice
diaspora connections
institutional visibility
life themes
self-archiving
social activism
social possibility
state violence
UK and US artist crossover
People Mentioned
Aretha Franklin
Carl Hancock Rux
David Adjaye
Francis Bacon
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Isaac Julien
John Akomfrah
Kara Walker
Lubaina Himid
Mark Bradford
Nairy Baghramian
Nona Hendryx
Rianna Jade Parker
Rick Lowe
Robert Longo
Saidiya Hartman
Theaster Gates
Vincent van Gogh
Works Mentioned
official biography of Aretha Franklin
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Places Mentioned
British Museum
Guggenheim Museum
London
Metro Hall, Toronto
New York
Serpentine Galleries
Tate
University of Toronto
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