Mapping State Violence Through Aesthetics of Nonviolence in The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

When it comes to invoking tropes of the “all-American,” the prison industrial system is not likely a signifier with which a nation extolling its virtues would wish to align. Such a connection, however, would accurately be upheld: with the highest incarceration rate in the world[i], invocations of the carceral within discussions of the United States […]

Women to Watch: Cecile Emeke

Cecile Emeke could be nothing other than a creator. The British-Jamaican poet and multimedia artist has been working with film for little more than two years, but she has expertly constructed whole worlds of possibility within her small but stirring body of moving image work. Self-taught on a friend’s equipment in early 2014 after finally […]