Experiments in Exile
C. L. R. James, Helio Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness
1st Edition
Published on 7. August 2018
233 pages
978-0-8232-7980-7 (ISBN)
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Comparing radical experiments undertaken by Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James and Brazilian artist Helio Oiticica, Experiments in Exile charts their common desire to reconceive citizenship. Laura Harris shows how James and Oiticica gravitate toward and attempt to relay the ongoing renewal of dissident, dissonant social forms that constitute what she calls "e;the aesthetic sociality of blackness,"e; in the barrack-yards of Port-of-Spain and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the assembly lines of Detroit and the streets of the New York, ultimately challenging rather than rehabilitating normative conceptions of citizens and polities as well as authors and artworks.
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Experiments in Exile
C. L. R. James, Helio Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness
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Content
- Cover
- EXPERIMENTS IN EXILE
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: Experiments in Exile
- 1 What Happened to the Motley Crew? James, Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness
- 2 Dialectic of Contact: The Organ/ization and the Nests
- 3 Undocuments: Reproduction at the Margins
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
