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Special Event
Greg Tate: The Spiritual Crisis in Contemporary Black Art, Politics and PsychoAnalysis
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Greg Tate
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Tuesday May 4, 2010 (8:30pm)
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$10
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Greg Tate: The Spiritual Crisis in Contemporary Black Art, Politics and PsychoAnalysis Co-presented with the CalArts graduate Aesthetics and Politics Program “One of the most celebrated Black cultural critics from the 1980s onward…” Jeff Chang The longtime Village Voice cultural critic, pioneer of hip-hop journalism and adventurous music director is on hand for an illuminating talk that locates a crisis today in black creative self-conception and representation—an exigency now being countered by new black theater, Afropunk and young black visual artists. Tracing a history of the recent past, Tate’s incisive analysis connects the depoliticization and disenchantment of black performative expression to the hypercapitalist mass-marking of black cultural output that boomed in the 1990s. Tate has contributed to numerous magazines, journals and museum catalogues; his books include Flyboy in the Buttermilk and Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture. He is currently working on a new book about the Godfather of Soul, provisionally entitled James Brown’s Body and the Revolution of the Mind. Tate is introduced by award-winning poet and performer Douglas Kearney, who also leads the post-lecture Q&A.
