Motion Practice (with Portrait of Jason )
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8252617 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jordan Chrietzberg, Jordan S Chrietzberg (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 82-105 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | liquid blackness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2692-3874 • E-ISSN: 2692-3874 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/26923874-11928077 |
| OpenAlex | W7131897780 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
Repurposing the forms of legal writing (its motion practice), this essay deploys black studies and Marxism — specifically Theodor Adorno's and Fred Moten's respective writings on art's law of motion — to consider both the statutory fair use test under United States federal law and Shirley Clarke's Portrait of Jason (1967), a film about a screen test. Both tests, the author argues, enact systems of judgment, or interpretation, that ask those who judge thereby — whether as spectators or officers of the court — to make evaluative judgments regarding art, economics, subjectivity, and race. The author then demonstrates that this judging — or reading — is a form of labor, often to the profit of whiteness and capital, but also toward what may end them, provided we work this work as a kind of discovery procedure. Finally, the author shows that this judging labor transforms with the arrival of Post-Fordism and that Portrait of Jason, unlike the fair use test, helps us move with this desired change, its practice
Dismissal · Portrait · Statutory law · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Law in Society and Culture · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |