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Professor Campt’s new book project, Art in a Time of Sorrow: Correspondence and the Afterlives of Images will form the context for this talk which adapts Édouard Glissant’s idea of opacity and uses it to explain how grief is both deeply specific and irreducible, while at the same time (particularly in the context of a global pandemic and anti-Black violence) a profound source of connection and relation. Focusing on the work of celebrated artist Carrie Mae Weems, Campt will explore the multi-layered forms of sonic and visual correspondence the artist creates in three powerful bodies of work: the chilling account of Black grief and grievance she delivers in works assembled in her 2018 exhibition, The Usual Suspects, her much-lauded Museums series, and her untitled 2020 video tribute to Okwui Enwezor, which mourns the death of her longtime friend and collaborator.
Tina Campt is Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of Humanities between the Department of Art and Archeology and the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. She is a black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art and lead convener of the Practicing Refusal Collective and the Sojourner Project. Campt has published five books, including most recently A Black Gaze with MIT Press in 2021. In Autumn 2024 she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art, hosted by Professor Dorothy Price.
Organised by Dorothy Price, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History, The Courtauld.
