PillowTalk: Okwui Okpokwasili & Saidiya Hartman

Two MacArthur Award recipients, multidisciplinary artist Okwui Okpokwasili and scholar Saidiya Hartman, come together for a meaningful discussion about the afterlife of slavery in modern American society and other timely topics.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okwui_Okpokwasili
english.columbia.edu/content/saidiya-v-hartman
Moderated by Pillow Scholars-in-Residence, PillowTalks provide an opportunity to gain behind-the-scenes insight into dance and related fields. Hour-long PillowTalks take place on-site Sundays at 3:30pm at Blake’s Barn, and are free and open to the public with advance registration. Recordings of online PillowTalks will be shared throughout the summer, premiering Fridays at 4pm.
The 2021 PillowTalk Series features conversations with Festival Artists like Ana Maria Alvarez, Artistic Director of CONTRA-TIEMPO, choreographer and founder of STREB Action Company, Elizabeth Streb; and former editor-in-chief of Dance Magazine Wendy Perron. For the first time, the PillowTalk Series will feature two exclusively online talks: one with MacArthur Fellows Saidiya Hartman and Okwui Okpokwasili; and another with South African artist William Kentridge.

[@everythingispolitics6526]

Just had to pause at 19:53 to state that, the fact that this incredibly intimate conversation is being had it what appears to be a predominantly white audience, is terrifying. The images conjuring in my mind are extraction-ists etc. This in itself is deserving of a psychoanalysis (what draws yt people to these conversations? what are their motives? how do they utilise the information/insights? etc.). Something to think about (it's a very common theme). History repeatedly reminds us that yt people extract extract and extract from people in the margins (psychically, sen*ually, artistically, intellectually etc). Also, how can hosts/panelists/organisers of these types of events, make these spaces/convo more accessible to the wider public, especially people directly impacted by the topic? Are the hosts/panelists even interested in widening accessibility?

[@AAEse]

exactlyyyy!!!!

[@angeledwards8216]

this is incredible

[@marienadinepierre6111]

Jah & Jahes love. I very much enjoyed watching these 2 talented black women discuss their work as artists and intellectuals. But, I was disturbed by the lack of depth or quality in the interaction. I haven't read Dr. Hartman's work yet, but I plan because I love her ideas about the slave experience and the Tans Atlantic Slave Trade. I wish that they had talked about how the environment in Nigeria and West Africa led to the slave trade. And, how were slaves caught and so forth? For me, that's the most important part of the dialogue about the black body. Since the 15th century, our black bodies have been at war and their kinfolks in Africa were stable. What kinds of differences have that created between us? Blessed love. #1804 #Ayiti #ToutMounseMoun #AbolishCPS #AbolishPoverty #ProChoice #RawVeganforLife

[@kiralynae6998]

😍

[@ashgiri94]

This is very weird

[@marienadinepierre6111]

Jah & Jahes love. Why was it weird to you? Blessed love.