Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a learner from East Palo Alto, CA. They live and work between Berlin, Johannesburg, and Brooklyn.
Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a learner from East Palo Alto, CA. They live and work between Berlin, Johannesburg, and Brooklyn.
Title
otherwise
Year
2021
Medium
Single-Channel Video
Runtime
00:04:53
Sound
It is silent. You can listen to yourself breathe as you watch the video. You are the score.
Presentations
University of Manitoba - School of Art (2022)
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) Southern California Campus located in Riverside, California. (2021, permanent installation)
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) Southern California Campus located in Riverside, California. (2021, permanent installation)
Credits
Film Excerpts: Dream Deferred featuring Fannie Lou Hamer (Harvey Richards, 1964); Mississippi Goddam (Nina Simone, 1965); Mississippi Goddam (Nina Simone, mid-1970s); Winter in America (Gil Scott-Heron, 1975); Clearing California Skies (California Air Resources Board, 1998); Youth United for Community Action (YUCA) Rally (EPA.net, 2007); California air quality: One-third of population deals with sub-standard air quality (The Los Angeles Times, 2014)
Texts Cited: Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. United Kingdom: Duke University Press, 2016. and Crawley, Ashon T.. Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility. United States: Fordham University Press, 2016.
Texts Cited: Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. United Kingdom: Duke University Press, 2016. and Crawley, Ashon T.. Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility. United States: Fordham University Press, 2016.
