Looking with Nona Faustine
Portraiture, Performance, and Possession
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14998780 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ariel Nereson (0000-0001-6550-1568, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 98-115 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TDR/The Drama Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1054-2043 • E-ISSN: 1531-4715 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1054204325100956 |
| OpenAlex | W7108079966 |
| Language | EN |
Contemporary visual artist Nona Faustine’s White Shoes series stages and documents her reparative practice of taking self-portraits in sites around New York City where enslaved Africans lived, died, and are buried. Considering Faustine’s self-portrait series not only as photography but also as performance documentation invites theorizations of memorial practices (rather than monumental objects) and their affordances for liberatory aesthetic projects
Affordance · Documentation · Photography · Visual culture · Architecture, Art, Education · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Diverse academic research themes
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |