White Art Making
Failure Notes
By C. Bain
This is about the impossibility and necessity of antiracist work by white artists. The call for white people to participate actively in the dismantling of white supremacy has come from Black thought leaders since the pre-"Emancipation" appeals to abolitionists, if not before. There is certainly a role for white people in the movement, but there is also some confusion and fragility on the part of white people generally about what we "should" do, what we are "allowed" to do. I am focused, in these notes, on navigating some of that confusion and fragility for the specific figure of the white artist. By and large, there has been silence from white artists around white supremacy, and where there is something other than silence, i often think it's bad.
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- Pamphlets & Zines
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- Tiresias Projekt (12/1/20)