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«Dear White People»? Notizen zu Arthur Jafas Black Cinema und Fragen der Adressierung

Author(s): Weingart, Brigitte

Abstract

Prompted by an exhibition of the Afro-American filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa, whose works are dedicated to a repertoire of images and sounds rooted in black experience, the article reflects on their ‹fascinating› effect on a white recipient (i.e. the author). It discusses how Jafa’s films – and in this case especially the video installation Apex (2013) – negotiate fascination itself as a configuration of seeing and being seen, in which the ‹color› of the gaze makes a difference. As an intervention into the media construction of race, Jafa’s black cinema provides audiovisual talking points when it comes to challenging the supposed neutrality of whiteness, and thus its privilege.

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Weingart, Brigitte: «Dear White People»? Notizen zu Arthur Jafas Black Cinema und Fragen der Adressierung. In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Jg. 11 (2019), Nr. 1, S. 112-118. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/3727.
@ARTICLE{Weingart2019,
 author = {Weingart, Brigitte},
 title = {«Dear White People»? Notizen zu Arthur Jafas Black Cinema und Fragen der Adressierung},
 year = 2019,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/3727},
 volume = 11,
 address = {Bielefeld},
 journal = {Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft},
 number = 1,
 pages = {112--118},
}
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