{"id":778,"date":"2016-01-23T18:28:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T18:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=778"},"modified":"2016-01-30T22:48:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T22:48:24","slug":"weve-only-just-begun-our-first-class-at-icp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"We’ve only just begun! Our first ICP class"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of my favorite images from *Sweet Breath of Life.* I’m determined to make a quilt from it one day. The blogpost “Intimate Moments in the African Diaspora,” gives a peek into the Kamoinge process. (Click the photo).<\/p><\/div>\n

Welcome Back to “The Worlds of Ntozake Shange & Digital Storytelling”! On Monday we\u2019ll start a new phase of our adventure. \u00a0We talked about how Zake moved knowledge from the body to the page\/stage; how do we move “carnal intellectuality” to the visual and the digital? \u00a0We\u2019ve talked (and felt) a lot about art and various forms of embodiment;\u00a0this semester we\u2019ll begin talking more about visuality\u2014both about how we make stories from objects\/things we see and how we read differently when we see text on screen as opposed to a book or paper. \u00a0How do we make visual knowledges that come with motion, that\u00a0emerge from connections between people, and that reside in everyday acts like cooking or everyday objects that are not usually recorded?<\/p>\n

You’ve also been given some exposure to the Black Arts Movement and Ntozake Shange’s place as a feminist “Daughter of the Black Arts Movement.” I hope this has given you a framework through which you can\u00a0make some sense of your archives.<\/p>\n

Our first International Center for Photography <\/a>(ICP) \u00a0session will introduce us to the space and launch us into a new arena of discussion\u00a0. We have the amazing fortune that artist Bradly Treadaway<\/a>,\u00a0who is co-teaching the class this semester, \u00a0has an interest in African-American photography, particularly in Roy DeCarava<\/a>, whose photographic collaboration with Langston Hughes, The S<\/em>weet Flypaper of Life,\u00a0<\/em>inspired Shange\u2019s collaboration with the Kamoinge group<\/a>, The<\/em> Sweet Breath\u00a0of Life.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Original cover of The Sweet Fly Paper of Life From the Duke University Library.<\/p><\/div>\n

After we get an introduction to ICP, he\u00a0will lead a lecture\/discussion on these two texts (the selections are available on our OLD courseworks site,<\/a> which we will keep using all semester).<\/p>\n

ASSIGNMENTS FOR MONDAY:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

READ\u00a0selections from:<\/p>\n