Visual Culture in Black Protest
With Prakash Krishnan and Kristen Young
Prakash Krishnan is a media practitioner, scholar and artist-researcher, currently pursuing a Masters in Media Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University.
Kristen Young is a community archivist and records manager.
In this video
Themes
- Anti-Black racism
- Race, Media, Technology
Krishnan and Young, co-hosts of the podcast Do the Kids Know?, use three case studies of protests against anti-Black racism to explore the relationship between visual culture and protest. They illuminate how iconic moments of visuality inform a cultural understanding of history, thereby canonizing protests as a historical imaginary.
Taking action
- Remember why people protest
- Use images of protests as motivations for what has been and can be done
- Use social media to strategically mobilize images as a protest culture
Resources
- Do the kids know? Podcast hosted by Prakash and Kristen
- Van Ness, Grace and Prakash Krishnan. “Art of the March: Archiving Aesthetics of the Women’s March” In Design and Political Dissent: Spaces, Objects , Materiality, 81-94. New York: Routletdge, 2021
- Black Lives Matter
- Marie-Jospeh Angelique – Canadian Encyclopedia
- The Hanging of Angelique – Afua Cooper
- Radical History: The Computer Riot