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The Politics of Performance
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
02 Jun 2021
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Margaret Kimberley · The Politics of Performance

Performance art has the power to make the future felt in the present. “We are in the world that we want to create right now,” said Troizel Carr, a doctoral candidate in performance studies at New York University and teaching fellow at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. “When we talk about abolition,” said Carr, “we have to talk about it as if we are on the run, as if we are on the run together, because that is what the enslaved people were doing.”

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