Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture - Anaïs Duplan outside the xyz tux blazer with a bow

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under arm to underarm: 24”

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Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture - Anaïs Duplan outside the xyz tux blazer with a bowBlack artists of the avant garde have always defined the future. Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research by trans poet and curator Anas Duplan about the aesthetic strategies used by experimental artists of color since the 1960s to pursue liberatory possibility. Through a series of lyric essays, interviews with contemporary artists and writers of color, and ekphrastic poetry, Duplan