Rizvana Bradley (History of Art and African-American Studies, Yale) /  Moderation: Dominique Grisard (The Art of Intervention, Gender Studies, Basel)

This talk offers a meditation on the relationship between seriality and movement. Specifically, it aims  to rethink seriality as it shapes non-narrative expressions of black movement. First, I focus on seriality  as a compositional and de-compositional motif with respect to black movement repertoires. Second,  I theorize the gestic as central to the abstract refrains of fugitivity, flight, and refusal that attend black life.