NYC-ARTS and WNET Thirteen presents a profile of photographer and video artist LaToya Ruby Frazier, whose work follows in the social documentary tradition of Walker Evans and Gordon Parks.
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Aired: 2/7/2019 on Thirteen|WNET New York Public Media
ATLANTIC INTERVIEWS
What a Picture From the Sky Reveals About Oppression
In honor of the MLK Special Issue, The Atlantic commissioned artist and photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier to photograph Chicago, Baltimore, and Memphis from the air. In her aerial photography, Frazier explains, the specter of oppression is writ large. “The history is written on that landscape and the body of its inhabitants,” says Frazier. “It became very clear to me how Freddie Gray lived in an environment that is toxic… it just looks like a target from the air.”
Authors: Brianna Pressey, Sophia Myszkowski
Video by The Atlantic
From Flint, Michigan, artists, activists and founders of The Sister Tour, Amber Hasan and Shea Cobb use their personal lives and encounters with the water crisis to serve as a catalyst to help, serve and support teens and women to harness their creative strength in the midst of chaos from Flint, Michigan to Puerto Rico. Fred Moten is Professor in the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Moten teaches courses and conducts research in black studies, performance studies, poetics and critical theory. He is author of many titles, most recently a three-volume collection of essays whose general title is consent not to be a single being (Duke University Press, 2017, 2018). They join LaToya Ruby Frazier in conversation.
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Bronx-based multidisciplinary artist Abigail DeVille’s work touches upon displacement, migration, marginalization, and cultural invisibility. Ashley James is the Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum and a scholar whose research reconsiders the relationship between politics, art, and Blackness in the early 1970s. Yael Lipschutz is an independent curator whose recent exhibitions include “Cameron: Songs for the Witchwoman” at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and “Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She serves as a Trustee of the Noah Purifoy Foundation. Together they join LaToya Ruby Frazier for a discussion about artistic practice, creation and displacement, and the legacy of Noah Purifoy.
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LaToya Ruby Frazier joins Dr. Esa Davis, Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinical and Translational Science at The University of Pittsburgh and a board-certified practicing family physician with a focus in women’s health who has investigated the perinatal, cultural and behavioral factors associated with racial and socioeconomic disparities in obesity among women; Rev. Kyndra Frazier, lead innovator of Harlem’s HOPE Center and Associate Pastor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem; and Gabriel N. Mendes, Ph.D., author of Under the Strain of Color: Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry (Cornell University Press, 2015), and Associate Director of Public Health Programs at the Bard Prison Initiative, for a special conversation on health care and access from Braddock to Harlem.
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“Et des terrils, un arbre s’élèvera”… c’est le nom d’une expo photo proposée au MAC’s pour le moment. Vous l’aurez compris, cette exposition est en lien avec le passé minier de notre région. Les photos sont celles d’une artiste américaine, LaToya Ruby Frazier. Il y a quelques mois, elle a rencontré d’anciens mineurs du Borinage et leurs familles. Accompagnée d’une interprète, elle a écouté leur histoire et les a pris en photos. Lors du vernissage de l’exposition ce week-end, ces familles boraines ont pu découvrir en primeur le travail de l’artiste.
“And From The Coaltips A Tree Will Rise” … is the name of a photo exhibition proposed to the MAC’s for the moment. You will understand, this exhibition is in connection with the mining past of our region. The photos are those of an American artist, LaToya Ruby Frazier. A few months ago, she met former miners from Borinage and their families. Accompanied by an interpreter, she listened to their story and took pictures. At the opening of the exhibition this weekend, these borane families were able to discover the work of the artist.
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