Arthur Jafa c/o Scholl Lecture Series

Overview

On October 11th, 2018 PAMM kicked off the fifth year of the Scholl Lecture Series with distinguished artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa. Jafa’s interdisciplinary practice combines film, installation, sculpture, and performance to examine assumptions about race and identity.

Key Takeaways

On the bittersweet Black experience:

“There’s something about that tension between, what’s magnificent about Black people and wheat’s miserable about Black people and how they’re inextricably bound up with each other…there’s no equation by which who we are as Black people can come into being outside of the context of the horror that produced us.”