I'm trying to get away with the redundancy of being an African-American or making African-American art. It's like a double negative, a double noun. So I'm trying to figure it out. Everyone knows that I am black, so my work doesn't have to shout it out anymore…. I am black. The work will automatically be thought of as a part of my African-American culture. ~David Hammons
Back in FebruaryI shared a Yak Films video with the New Yorkers that came to Carousel Microcinema 5.0 @ The Kitchen, NYC.
This news profile definitely smacks of the patronizing, the anthropological and the kind of neo-liberal condescension that drives me comletely up the wall, and brothers and sisters in OAKLAND shine nonetheless. (And I actually learned some vitals about this crew that had previously eluded me. Journalism Yea! (Les Twins also make an appearance. Google those young men, Buster Keaton would love them.)
Cauleen Smith is currently enjoying The Year and Change Artist Residency, sponsored by the Department of Visual Arts at UC San Diego in La Jolla. The residency enables Smith to devote 100% of the next year and change to creative projects. She will spend the summer creating a film about the psychogeography of the great city of Chicago, and the fall nesting in the great city of Los Angeles (where she intends to stay for quite some time). Smith writes, teaches, makes films, and rides her fat tire bike as much as possible. It was a difficult decision, but she decided to dedicate this blog to time-based media instead of her fat-tire bike.
