Discussion Session with Dr Huey Copeland

Huey Copeland’s work interrogates African/Diasporic, American and European artistic praxis from the late eighteenth century to the present with an emphasis on articulations of blackness in western visual culture. In his interdisciplinary research, Copeland focuses on the intersections of race and gender, subject and object, the aesthetic and its others from a black feminist persptive that reveals the biases and elisions of the discipline. Rather than assume the redemptive power of art, he aims to push history against the grain in exploring the constitutive relationship between the capture of black life and the production of cultural property in the modern transatlantic world.