Sarah Jane Cervenak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1383840 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Jane Cervenak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Cervenak |
| SIGNATURE | CERVENAK S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Black Gathering
In Black Gathering Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from interruption or regulation. Drawing together Black feminist theory, critical theories of ecology and ecoaesthetics, and Black aesthetics, Cervenak shows how novelists, poets, and visual artists such as Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison, Clementine Hunter, Samiya Bashir, and Leonardo Drew advance an ecological im…
High under the pew
High Under the Pew: A Critical Meditation on Joseph Winters's Hope Draped in Black" thinks Joseph Winters's text in relation to critical poetics, Black studies and Black feminist thought. In particular, I trace how Winters's philosophical engagement with the concept of "melancholic hope" in Black literary production extends these above-named intellectual traditions' critiques of the post-enlightenment subject. More precisely, Winters dwelling wit…
Un/Sent Stream
Artist Torkwase Dyson's Spring 2018 exhibition at Chelsea's Davidson gallery is framed around an im/possible salutation. A stunning collection of what the artist calls “water table” paintings and a
Black Night Is Falling
Respiration is a choral practice; the interplay between oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide complexly threads the reproductive fates of oceans, trees, flesh, and cells together. We might say breathing is reproduction’s ur-text
Untitled and Outdoors
In some ways, critical conversations on black performance studies focus the first part of Scenes in its particular engagement with black fungibility. Arguably, the first half is black performance studies’ founding text. Even still, the authors argue that black performance studies is never not a question of ecological possibility, of being black outside in the wake of self-possession’s overdetermined white particularity. Such questions foreground …
Embodied Avatars
Reviewed by: Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance by Uri McMillan Sarah Jane Cervenak EMBODIED AVATARS: GENEALOGIES OF BLACK FEMINIST ART AND PERFORMANCE. By Uri McMillan. Sexual Cultures series. New York: NYU Press, 2015; pp. 304. Uri McMillan’s magisterial debut book engages while naming a two-century-long tradition of black women’s performance art in the United States, intervening in the problematic racialization…
Black gathering
The collector, according to Walter Benjamin and Charles Baudelaire, is the figure who treads the edge of day, roaming the margins of Enlightened society in search of its tossed-aside forms. Into this wasteland of rejected and disavowed life, the collector ambles as if in a dream. In her dream, disavowed living moves into a “better” world, one that lingers safely past the suffocating ether of tired taxonomies. Sculptor Leonardo Drew is a collector…
Like Blood or Blossom
Historically, racialized, sexualized, and gendered bodies have been subjected to the epistemological promiscuity of others’ visions. Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu is particularly interested in the ways that “women’s bodies are [v]ulnerable to the whims of changing movements, governments, and social norms.”1 In Mutu’s work, that vulnerability gets staged and subverted through an aesthetic dismemberment. Using clippings from pornographic, ethnographi…
Black Ether
Research Article| July 01 2016 Black Ether J. Kameron Carter; J. Kameron Carter Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sarah Jane Cervenak Sarah Jane Cervenak University of North Carolina, Greensboro Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2016) 16 (2): 203–224. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.16.2.0203 Views Icon Views Article con…
Wandering
I leaned against the seat and closed my eyes.Then, suddenly, it was like I was remembering something out of a long past.I was a child, drowsy, thinking I was sleeping or dreaming
Adrian Piper
John P. Bowles’ Adrian Piper: Race, Gender and Embodiment both is and isn't about the artist-philosopher Adrian Piper; Bowles opens his enormously important book by making it about you, the reader
Christina Sharpe. Monstrous Intimacies
Against Traffic
Against Traffic:De/formations of Race and Freedom in the Art of Adrian Piper Sarah Jane Cervenak (bio) Lacking the certitude of a definitive partition between slavery and freedom, and in the absence of a consummate breach through which freedom might ambivalently announce itself, there is at best a transient and fleeting expression of possibility. -Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection1 Value denotes domination and endurance in a space of multipli…
Wandering
I leaned against the seat and closed my eyes.Then, suddenly, it was like I was remembering something out of a long past.I was a child, drowsy, thinking I was sleeping or dreaming
Black Gathering
In Black Gathering Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from interruption or regulation. Drawing together Black feminist theory, critical theories of ecology and ecoaesthetics, and Black aesthetics, Cervenak shows how novelists, poets, and visual artists such as Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison, Clementine Hunter, Samiya Bashir, and Leonardo Drew advance an ecological im…
Untitled and Outdoors
In some ways, critical conversations on black performance studies focus the first part of Scenes in its particular engagement with black fungibility. Arguably, the first half is black performance studies’ founding text. Even still, the authors argue that black performance studies is never not a question of ecological possibility, of being black outside in the wake of self-possession’s overdetermined white particularity. Such questions foreground …
Black Ether
Research Article| July 01 2016 Black Ether J. Kameron Carter; J. Kameron Carter Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sarah Jane Cervenak Sarah Jane Cervenak University of North Carolina, Greensboro Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2016) 16 (2): 203–224. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.16.2.0203 Views Icon Views Article con…
Black Night Is Falling
Respiration is a choral practice; the interplay between oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide complexly threads the reproductive fates of oceans, trees, flesh, and cells together. We might say breathing is reproduction’s ur-text
Against Traffic
Against Traffic:De/formations of Race and Freedom in the Art of Adrian Piper Sarah Jane Cervenak (bio) Lacking the certitude of a definitive partition between slavery and freedom, and in the absence of a consummate breach through which freedom might ambivalently announce itself, there is at best a transient and fleeting expression of possibility. -Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection1 Value denotes domination and endurance in a space of multipli…
Christina Sharpe. Monstrous Intimacies
Adrian Piper
John P. Bowles’ Adrian Piper: Race, Gender and Embodiment both is and isn't about the artist-philosopher Adrian Piper; Bowles opens his enormously important book by making it about you, the reader
Wandering
I leaned against the seat and closed my eyes.Then, suddenly, it was like I was remembering something out of a long past.I was a child, drowsy, thinking I was sleeping or dreaming
Embodied Avatars
Reviewed by: Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance by Uri McMillan Sarah Jane Cervenak EMBODIED AVATARS: GENEALOGIES OF BLACK FEMINIST ART AND PERFORMANCE. By Uri McMillan. Sexual Cultures series. New York: NYU Press, 2015; pp. 304. Uri McMillan’s magisterial debut book engages while naming a two-century-long tradition of black women’s performance art in the United States, intervening in the problematic racialization…
Black gathering
The collector, according to Walter Benjamin and Charles Baudelaire, is the figure who treads the edge of day, roaming the margins of Enlightened society in search of its tossed-aside forms. Into this wasteland of rejected and disavowed life, the collector ambles as if in a dream. In her dream, disavowed living moves into a “better” world, one that lingers safely past the suffocating ether of tired taxonomies. Sculptor Leonardo Drew is a collector…
Like Blood or Blossom
Historically, racialized, sexualized, and gendered bodies have been subjected to the epistemological promiscuity of others’ visions. Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu is particularly interested in the ways that “women’s bodies are [v]ulnerable to the whims of changing movements, governments, and social norms.”1 In Mutu’s work, that vulnerability gets staged and subverted through an aesthetic dismemberment. Using clippings from pornographic, ethnographi…
Black Ether
Research Article| July 01 2016 Black Ether J. Kameron Carter; J. Kameron Carter Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sarah Jane Cervenak Sarah Jane Cervenak University of North Carolina, Greensboro Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2016) 16 (2): 203–224. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.16.2.0203 Views Icon Views Article con…
Untitled and Outdoors
In some ways, critical conversations on black performance studies focus the first part of Scenes in its particular engagement with black fungibility. Arguably, the first half is black performance studies’ founding text. Even still, the authors argue that black performance studies is never not a question of ecological possibility, of being black outside in the wake of self-possession’s overdetermined white particularity. Such questions foreground …
Un/Sent Stream
Artist Torkwase Dyson's Spring 2018 exhibition at Chelsea's Davidson gallery is framed around an im/possible salutation. A stunning collection of what the artist calls “water table” paintings and a
Black Night Is Falling
Respiration is a choral practice; the interplay between oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide complexly threads the reproductive fates of oceans, trees, flesh, and cells together. We might say breathing is reproduction’s ur-text
Black Gathering
In Black Gathering Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from interruption or regulation. Drawing together Black feminist theory, critical theories of ecology and ecoaesthetics, and Black aesthetics, Cervenak shows how novelists, poets, and visual artists such as Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison, Clementine Hunter, Samiya Bashir, and Leonardo Drew advance an ecological im…
High under the pew
High Under the Pew: A Critical Meditation on Joseph Winters's Hope Draped in Black" thinks Joseph Winters's text in relation to critical poetics, Black studies and Black feminist thought. In particular, I trace how Winters's philosophical engagement with the concept of "melancholic hope" in Black literary production extends these above-named intellectual traditions' critiques of the post-enlightenment subject. More precisely, Winters dwelling wit…
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