"On Living Archives": Tsedaye Makonnen on Collaboration and Black Performance Practices

In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing

04/18/23 • 36 min

In this episode, Caitlin Woolsey (Assistant Director of the Research and Academic Program) speaks with artist and curator Tsedaye Makonnen about her multidisciplinary studio, curatorial, and research-based practice. They discuss how Tsedaye’s sculptural installations and performances thread together her identity as a daughter of Ethiopian immigrants and a Black American woman to explore the transhistorical forced migration of Black communities across the globe.

04/18/23 • 36 min

In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing - "On Living Archives": Tsedaye Makonnen on Collaboration and Black Performance Practices

Transcript

Caro Fowler

Welcome to In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing. I am Caro Fowler, your host and Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. In this series of conversations, I talk with art historians and artists about what it means to write history and make art, and the ways in which making informs how we create not only our world, but also ourselves.

Caitlin Woolsey

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