Curated by Gabrielle Civil, Black Motion Pictures is a series of Zoom interviews with radical Black creatives about race, performance, and representation conducted between June 2-14, 2020. Spanning a broad range of topics—Black punk music, heritage sites, re-enactments, queer ancestors—the series continues with Ra Malika Imhotep. Who are you today and what do you do? Can you think of a performance—Black or otherwise—whatever that means--that has meant a lot to you? How is Black performance marked or archived? How does Black performance relate to time (to historicity or ephemerality)? What is a Black performance still? How does Black performance matter? What is a Black motion picture?
Ra Malika Imhotep is a Black feminist writer and performance artist from Atlanta. As a scholar and cultural worker, she is invested in exploring relationships between queer articulations of Black femininity, Southern vernacular culture, and the performance of labor. As a steward of Black Studies and Black feminist thought, she dreams, organizes and facilitates spaces of critical reflection and embodied spiritual-political education with The Church of Black Feminist Thought, Gallery of The Streets and Southerners on New Ground.
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