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)
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.



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