Listening Across the Black Diaspora
A Conversation with Tina Campt on Black Archives, Imaginaries, and Contemporary Art
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https://doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v38i1.153008Keywords:
Black archives, Black visuality, Photography, Contemporary artAbstract
This interview with black feminist scholar Tina Campt explores her method of “listening” to images—from vernacular photography to contemporary art—as a way of attuning to their affective impact. The interview takes its starting point in the contemporary art exhibition Transmissions (2024) at Skånes Konstförening, which explored the resonance of Campt’s method in the Nordic region. Campt goes on to discuss the centrality of photography in the current Black Archives movements in Europe, drawing comparisons with earlier efforts to reclaim Black histories in Germany. Furthermore, the interview highlights Campt’s ongoing engagement with Black visuality as she considers the strategies Black artists use to confront anti-Black violence and care for their viewers under shifting political conditions.
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Appiah, T. (Ed.). (2023). FLIGHT. Malmo: Malmo Konsthall.
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Campt, T. (2004). Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich. University of Michigan Press.
Campt, T. (2012). Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe. Duke University Press.
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