Cauleen Smith Confabulations Series: Christina Sharpe

ABOUT THIS EVENT

Confabulations—from the Latin fabula, meaning “conversation,” or “story”—is a series of intimate conversations with L.A.-based artist Cauleen Smith. For the third event in this series, Smith speaks with Christina Sharpe, author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being.

Christina Sharpe is a writer, Professor, and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University. She is the author of: In the Wake: On Blackness and Being and Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects. Her third book, Ordinary Notes, will be published in 2022 (Knopf/FSG/Daunt). She is working on a monograph called Black. Still. Life. She has recently published essays in Alison Saar Of Aether and Earthe; Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America; Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America; and Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing.