A small collection of recent texts and contexts. I'm so deeply thankful for everyone listed here, and so many friends/fam/peers in Houston, New Orleans, Chicago, and beyond that showed up for me and my work, in real life and online, during the whirlwind of 2019 and early 2020. People traveled, called, posted, emailed, engaged, shared resources, and showed love in ways that have restored me. It's been a grueling road at times over the years, and I feel renewed. I feel seen. With gratitude ❤️❤️.
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1&2: "Between Two Gulfs: Ecological Politics and Black Geographies in the Work of Regina Agu," written by
@allison.k.young in the latest issue of IRAA (International Review of African American Art).
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3: "Acadia Revisited: Regina Agu in conversation with Ryan N. Dennis,"
@ryandennistaylor published in the exhibition catalog, "Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana", edited by
@kapfohl . Published by Yale University Press (
@yalebooks ). Video reposted from
@menilbookstore .
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4&5: "Passage" received a mention in the review "Swampland Sublime: The Landscapes of Louisiana" in New York Review of Books
@nybooks .
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6&7: "Episode 21: Expanding Monuments with Regina Agu - New Monuments for New Cities" for Monument Lab Podcast
@monument_lab . This interview was recorded while I was in residence at
@astudiointhewoods in September 2019. This was published in October - long overdue thank you to Paul Farber! 🙈. You can listen on
@spotify , transcript on the Monument Lab blog.
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8: A moving performance by Megan Easley
@localwatersupply at
@neworleansmuseumofart for the closing of "Passage." A full-circle daydream moment.
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9. I was so thrilled to experience
@lescenelles for the first time. I have never heard the languague and musical culture of Creole Louisiana, my maternal lineage, represented in this way.
#reginaagu
#contemporaryart
#blackcontemporaryart
#blackgeographies
