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30 Aug. 2024

Why We Write: Joint Book Launch with Yaniya Lee and Katherine McKittrick

Speakers
Yaniya Lee and Katherine McKittrick
Time
5:00-8:00

Please join us for a double launch of Selected Writing on Black Canadian Art by Yaniya Lee and Twenty Dreams by Katherine McKittrick on Friday, August 30, 2024, 5 pm-8 pm. There will be music, good times, and a black art collage and zine-making activity. Light food will be served by The Real Jerk. Drinks will be available by donation. This event is co-presented by Art Metropole and The Revolutionary Demand for Happiness.

In Twenty Dreams, Katherine McKittrick offers thoughts on the entanglement of race, environment, place, and blackness. Full-colour reproductions of Charmain Lurch’s bee sculptures help McKittrick illuminate the potentialities of anti-colonial practice.

Yaniya Lee’s Selected Writing on Black Canadian Art is a collection of essays, reviews, and interviews published by Yaniya Lee between 2017 and 2021 that gathers the testimonies and achievements of African diasporic artists and curators from across the Canada and beyond. Selected Writing on Black Canadian Art will be available for purchase at the launch.

Buy the Monograph Selected Writing on Black Canadian Art

Yaniya Lee is the author of Buseje Bailey: Reasons Why We Have to Disappear Every Once in a While, A Black Art History Project (2024). Her writing and research track Black creative practice and narratives of liberation across the nation. She has written about art for museums and galleries across Canada, as well as for Canadian Art, C Magazine, Flash Art, and British Vogue.

Katherine McKittrick is Professor of Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen’s University. Her publications include Trick Not Telos (2024, with Lyse Hebert, Cristian Ordoñez and Liz Ikiriko), Dear Science and Other Stories (2020), and Demonic Grounds (2006). She also contributed to and edited Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis (2014).

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