Politics of the Visual: Anaïs Duplan

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Anaïs Duplan (he/they) presents What Lies at the Intersection of Land Ownership and Documentary Poetics on November 7, 2024 at 6:30pm, MOSAIC Event Space (49 Main St, North Adams)

Documentary poetics is a process of historical relearning that finds itself at the intersection of poetic storytelling and “fact-based” documentation, challenging the salience of the latter. In this lecture, Anaïs Duplan argues that land ownership and citizenship have directly shaped the landscape of what we now think of as contemporary documentary poetics. Anaïs will use the history of the city of Los Angeles in the context of the Watts Rebellion in the 1960s as the thread throughout his argument.

Anaïs Duplan (he/they) is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of several books including I NEED MUSIC (Action Books, 2021) and Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020). He is a professor of postcolonial literature at Bennington College.

"Politics of the Visual" is a 2024-25 lecture series exploring pressing inquiries about the political dimensions of visuality and representation, power structures of looking, and phenomena of spectacle. The series is organized by Dr. Victoria Papa and supported by Hardman Special Initiatives and MOSAIC.

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Victoria Papa, Ph.D. (she/they)

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