Artist Salons as Sites of Unforgetting: Reimagining Liberatory-Education through Plays, Film, Poetry, Novella, and Collage

Session Type: Demonstration/Performance

Abstract

We offer a Harlem Renaissance-style salon as a portal to unforgetting histories, reimagining our presents, and rehearsing liberatory educational futures with Black, Indigenous, Latine, and Asian scholar-artists. In this session we share our reimaginings—film, poetry, visual art, fiction, plays, mixtapes—to honor our genealogies rooted in Black knowledge production and ways of being. Creative critical research methods and art co-created therein remain spaces of unforgetting toward an anterior grammar (Campt, 2017), one that examines life across pasts, presents, and futures. Anteriority as a necessary condition for self-determination throughout time understands artistic imagination and witnessing as memory-making. We extend anteriority to hold arts-based educational research as our always-remembering conjured within archives, ethnography, interviews, play, and our liberatory learning as possibility.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Arts-Based Educational Research

Chairs

• monét cooper, University of Michigan

• Renée Wilmot, Michigan State University

Papers

• Black Girls Shine - Jessica Reed, Michigan State University

• Collaging Black and Indigenous Education Sovereignties - Anna Almore, University of Michigan

• Poetry in Motion: A Black Feminist Inquiry in Sound and Story - Autumn A. Griffin, University of North Carolina - Charlotte

• Maya Political Memory: Patrullero Voices Disrupting Civil War Narratives Through Collaborative Cinema - Alex Mejía, San Francisco State University

• Sonic Memories and Sonic Storytelling as Methodology: Multimodal Literacies & Mixtape Composing with Transnational Girls of Color - Jordyn Alyse Simmons, University of Houston; Tairan Qiu, Stanford University

• Black Girl Art: Refusal and Reimagining Through Arts-Based Research - Jazmen Moore, Stony Brook University - SUNY

Session Organizer

• monét cooper, University of Michigan

Discussant

• Ruth Nicole Brown, Michigan State University