Joanna Ruth Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 3990750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Ruth Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0697-9083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
On May 24, 1963, in the aftermath of the Birmingham protests, Lorraine Hansberry was among a group of artists and black activists invited to the home of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to open dialogue about the Civil Rights Movement, and the anger of black people at the administration’s response to white supremacist violence. Among the attendees were James Baldwin (who had assembled the group at Kennedy’s request), his brother David Baldwin, …
Beyond Mundane
When the studio of South African jazz saxophonist Zim Nqawana was destroyed by copper thieves, he responded by improvising with the wreckage. In ‘Beyond Mundane: Zim Nqawana’s environmental improvisation’, Joanna Ruth Evans studies this performance through the film ‘The Exhibition of Vandalizm’ (2010), which documents the full day and night that Nqawana spent drawing sound from the detritus, and meditating on the psychic effects of South Africa’s…
As the world trembles
In the film Édouard Glissant, One World in Relation (Diawara 2009 Diawara, Manthia. 2009. Édouard Glissant, One World in Relation. K’a Yéléma Productions. [Film]. [Google Scholar]), Glissant states that “borders are necessary in order to appreciate the passage from the flavor of one country to the flavor of another.” This statement inspires an exploration of the workings of borders in Glissant's work, focusing on his book Poetics of Relation and …
Unsettled Matters, Falling Flight
A statue of 19th-century British imperialist Cecil John Rhodes sat at the heart of the University of Cape Town’s colonial façade until 9 April 2015, when it was removed after just one month of student protests known as the Rhodes Must Fall movement. The material alterations made to the body of the statue by protesting students unsettled the dominant epistemology of the university and public discourse by exceeding the bounds and logics of represen…
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Unsettled Matters, Falling Flight
A statue of 19th-century British imperialist Cecil John Rhodes sat at the heart of the University of Cape Town’s colonial façade until 9 April 2015, when it was removed after just one month of student protests known as the Rhodes Must Fall movement. The material alterations made to the body of the statue by protesting students unsettled the dominant epistemology of the university and public discourse by exceeding the bounds and logics of represen…
As the world trembles
In the film Édouard Glissant, One World in Relation (Diawara 2009 Diawara, Manthia. 2009. Édouard Glissant, One World in Relation. K’a Yéléma Productions. [Film]. [Google Scholar]), Glissant states that “borders are necessary in order to appreciate the passage from the flavor of one country to the flavor of another.” This statement inspires an exploration of the workings of borders in Glissant's work, focusing on his book Poetics of Relation and …
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
On May 24, 1963, in the aftermath of the Birmingham protests, Lorraine Hansberry was among a group of artists and black activists invited to the home of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to open dialogue about the Civil Rights Movement, and the anger of black people at the administration’s response to white supremacist violence. Among the attendees were James Baldwin (who had assembled the group at Kennedy’s request), his brother David Baldwin, …
Beyond Mundane
When the studio of South African jazz saxophonist Zim Nqawana was destroyed by copper thieves, he responded by improvising with the wreckage. In ‘Beyond Mundane: Zim Nqawana’s environmental improvisation’, Joanna Ruth Evans studies this performance through the film ‘The Exhibition of Vandalizm’ (2010), which documents the full day and night that Nqawana spent drawing sound from the detritus, and meditating on the psychic effects of South Africa’s…
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