WHITNEY BIENNAL: QUIET AS IT’S KEPT
APRIL 06 – SEPTEMBER 05, 2022
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NEW YORK
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WHITNEY BIENNAL: QUIET AS IT’S KEPT
APRIL 06 – SEPTEMBER 05, 2022
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NEW YORK
On the occasion of their inclusion in Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept, Cassandra Press presents two seminars drawn from their course catalogue. These lectures, which are integral to the work of Cassandra Press, seek to spread ideas, distribute new language, and propagate dialogue centering ethics, aesthetics, femme-driven activism, and Black scholarship.
For this lecture, Biennial artist and Cassandra Press founder Kandis Williams will draw upon her investigations on horror motifs as products of the white supremacist cultural imaginary to unpack the psychology of dissonance and psychopathy bred out of white supremacist and colonial ideations.
Williams will discuss her research surrounding her ongoing CASSANDRA CLASSROOMS course entitled Whiteness, Dissonance, and Horror. In this course, Williams looks at Whiteness through the lens of American horror films. Theorizing that horror as a literary genre is a product of the white supremacist cultural imaginary, Williams looks at horror motifs as the recognition/means of coping with the implications of white beings and peoples in the perpetuation of brutal racial colonialism, violence, genocide, and class warfare. Following the lecture, attendees are invited to a film screening of selected media curated by Williams.