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Juliana Huxtable: An Interview

Video Data Bank

2016 00:39:13 United StatesEnglishColorStereo16:9HD video
Tags:
African-American, Body, Feminism, Interview, LGBTQ, Transgender, VDB Interviews, Visiting Artists Program

Description

Juliana Huxtable was born in Texas and studied at Bard College, NY. An artist working across video, photography, poetry, and music, her practice demands a reexamination of the canon of art history in order to break the cycle of misrepresentation and under-representation in the contemporary art world.

In the interview Huxtable and SAIC's Director of Student Affairs for Diversity and Inclusion, Rashayla Marie Brown, engage in a tête-à-tête concerning racial and gender politics, the melding of art world culture with celebrity culture, and other essential contemporary issues. Huxtable asks, “Is visibility [of marginalized peoples] helping or is it making people think progress is happening?” and discusses how this notion informs the use of her own trans body in her work. 

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