“Breonna Taylor Could Have Been Me”: Bearing Witness to Faith in Black (Feminist) Futurity at the Speed Art Museum’s <i>Promise</i>, <i>Witness</i>, <i>Remembrance</i> Exhibit

This article explores the Speed Art Museum’s exhibit, <i>Promise</i>, <i>Witness</i>, <i>Remembrance</i>, as a site of meaning-making in the wake of the state-sponsored killing of Breonna Taylor. The article focuses on how the curators engaged the felt sense of vu...

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Autor principal: Michael Brandon McCormack
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Sumario:This article explores the Speed Art Museum’s exhibit, <i>Promise</i>, <i>Witness</i>, <i>Remembrance</i>, as a site of meaning-making in the wake of the state-sponsored killing of Breonna Taylor. The article focuses on how the curators engaged the felt sense of vulnerability to premature death among Black viewers identified with Taylor in ways that held in tension a crisis of faith in, and an insistence upon, Black futurity.