There is no one way — that’s the joke. Though lately we have collectively been bombarded by one singular image of what it means to be black in this time and space.
Seated in a row of eight black chairs beside a group of white and Asian hipsters at the New Foundation Seattle, I watched the film “Good Stock on the Dimension Floor: An Opera” and had the welcome experience of seeing something different.
This 34-part film-poem that poses the question: “What happens to the black body when it is haunted by ‘a blackness,’ outside of it?”
Written by poet Dawn Lundy Martin, directed by Sienna Shields, and performed by the members of an interdisciplinary collective of international black artists that call themselves HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? (HDYSYIA? or YAMS Collective), it is an abstract exploration of blackness.
[For more of this story, written by Reagan Jackson, go to http://www.seattleglobalist.co...eattle-hdysyia/33264]
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