Sharjah Art Foundation

March Meeting 2016: Education, Engagement and Participation


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X Speaks: Performing history, moving from margin to centre and creating an autonomous Black American Muslim performance (cyber)space

Nsenga Knight presents “X Speaks: Performing history, moving from margin to center and creating an autonomous Black American Muslin performance (cyber)space” at March Meeting 2016: Education, Engagement, and Participation.

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Description

This talk will present a case study of X Speaks, a social practice project led by Knight in 2015 in which Black American Muslims were invited to collectively perform Malcolm X’s final eight 1965 speeches via live-stream on the historically corresponding days leading up to the 50th anniversary of his death.

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