INFORMATION
IN HIS FOURTH BOOK, Anaïs Duplan reinvents ekphrasis as an act of devotion to art as both the sense-archive and future tense of Black embodiment. In this vibrant thinkspace (where thinking is singing), Duplan hosts a vivid community of Black musicians, performers, painters, photographers, poets, critics, filmmakers and video artists, even a chorus of lovelorn chatroom denizens. I Need Music hosts the lyric re-arrivals of unquiet pasts, enacts a haptic intimacy with the present, and vibrates with the immanence of Black, queer futures.
THIS COMPANION SITE houses the notes, acknowledgments, responses, miscellany, etc. that made I NEED MUSIC possible.
Section 7: [I was about to say, why would one sit in a courtroom]
[I was about to say, why would one sit in a courtroom]
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Central Park 5 (detail) - charcoal on paper, each 8 ½ x 11 in., 2017
Central Park 5 (detail) - charcoal on paper, each 8 ½ x 11 in., 2017