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Slippage @ Duke Presentsi am black [you have to be willing to not to know]FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 | Noon WHITE PRIVILEGEFRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 | 7:00 PM Rubenstein Arts Center | von der Heyden Studio Theater: General Admission |
TICKETS: Free ticket required
ABOUT
i am black [you have to be willing to not know]The discourse of race in contemporary performance falls apart when whites try to understand black performance. Contemporary black performance is saturated with experience and complexities that evade easy affiliations or knowings. This dialogic manifesto-lecture-performance offers strategies for acknowledging how artists of color and their collaborating audiences of color operate in several keys simultaneously but are inevitably compelled to reduce their work and experience to the unknowable, shameful category of “race.”
WHITE PRIVILEGE
Is everyone always automatically expected to share the concerns of people of color? Do we all really have to pay attention to race, religion, sexuality, ethnicity? What constitutes “white privilege?” If I’m not interested in being part of some solution, am I really part of the problem? What if I’m a maker/audience/presenter who happens to be interested in love, or formal structure, or myth, or universal qualities of empathy? What am I to do now? This dialogic manifesto-lecture-performance offers strategies for constructing a shared, useful understanding of white privilege and its implacable effects in the world.
