Context Art
Michael Boyce Gillespie 

In the basement, a special lounge and reading area has been set up especially for the exhibitions by Doreen Garner and Kevin Jerome Everson, the so-called Study Room. There you will also find a series of publications that address topics such as black cinema and Austrian history and are intended to provide a broad context for the exhibition.

On selected dates, one of the books from the Study Room will be briefly introduced to provide important social background to the exhibition. This is done through the online publication of a short video. On Oktober 1, at 5 pm. a short video on the following publication will be screened: Michael Boyce Gillespie, Film Blackness. American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film, Duke University Press, Durham and London 2016. Michael Boyce Gillespie argues for the theoretical development of Black cinema and Black film as autonomous genres and discusses how to arrive at a multi-layered and complex understanding of the concepts.

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