{"id":21558,"date":"2022-05-20T00:04:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T23:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/?p=21558"},"modified":"2022-10-02T11:59:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T10:59:09","slug":"archive-of-improvisation-abstraction-and-global-blackness-in-the-artworks-of-caroline-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/archive-of-improvisation-abstraction-and-global-blackness-in-the-artworks-of-caroline-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Archive of Improvisation: Abstraction and Global Blackness in the Artworks of Caroline Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;5px&#8221;][vc_separator color=&#8221;black&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>Archive of Improvisation: Abstraction and Global Blackness in the Artworks of Caroline Kent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May 26th &#8211; 6 pm<\/p>\n<p>Talk will be held in english.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;21559&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Synopsis&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h4|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_separator][vc_column_text]Caroline Kent is a Chicago-based visual artist best known for her large-format abstract paintings. Inspired by her deep interest in foreign-language film, her personal experiences as a traveler, and her Mexican and African-American cultural heritage, Kent\u2019s works explore the power of narrative and the limitations of communication.<\/p>\n<p>Kent\u2019s paintings \u2014 frequently based on backgrounds of black gesso and hung unstretched on gallery and museum walls \u2014 arise from her improvisatory sessions of paper cutting and versioning reminiscent of Romare Bearden\u2019s collage process.<\/p>\n<p>For \u201cArchives of Improvisation: Abstraction and Global Blackness in the Artworks of Caroline Kent\u201d, He has crafted a hybrid essay that overlaps personal narrative, critique, and archival exploration. The piece thinks alongside of and through a selection of Kent\u2019s paintings in an attempt to fashion a definition of global Blackness as multi-referential, counter-representational, and opaque.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Biography&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h4|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<strong>Walton Muyumba<\/strong> is a writer and critic. He is the author of The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism. Muyumba\u2019s essays and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic, The Believer, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, Oxford American, and among other outlets. He teaches Global Black culture and literature at Indiana University-Bloomington. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 26th 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":21560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[238,286],"class_list":["post-21558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2022-en","tag-previous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21563,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21558\/revisions\/21563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}