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Mensaje Para Escribiente / Message For a Scribe
URe:AD TV (United Re:Public of the African Diaspora Television)
Screening Room - Michigan Theater
Sat, Mar 24, 2018 2:45 PM
URe:AD TV is a transmedia “network” produced through a global open call for media and comprising fresh, contemporary audiovisual work by and for the African diaspora. Challenging the narrow, stereotypical, and banal aspects of both popular media and art-institutional framing of Black representation, URe:AD TV grows and changes with new submissions, producing new work with artists in the cities on its tour. Curated by Shani Peters and Sharita Towne.
Using excerpts from Teresa Chikaba’s hagiography Compendio de la Vida Ejemplar de la Venerable Madre Sor Teresa Juliana de Santo Domingo (1752), and George Bernard Shaw’s The Adventures of The Black Girl in Her Search for God (1932), consecutively, Feliz points to the issue of agency. With literacy strictly prohibited for slaves of the Spanish empire, it is unlikely that Chikaba wrote her own journal, which is cited as a main source for her hagiography; and Shaw, a white British man, writes a novel from the perspective of an African woman. These two stories meet at a crossroads with webcam portraits of the artists, and self-made nature-esque documentaries made in the confines of the filmmaker’s home.
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