CURC Reading Room

Angélique Willkie, the Concordia University Research Chair (CURC) in Ecologies of B/black Performance is pleased to introduce a new initiative - The CURC Reading Room: Black Performance / Performing Blackness. 

 

What defines Black Performance? What does it mean to perform Blackness? Where do these ideas overlap, and where do they diverge? Throughout next semester, we’ll explore these questions together as we read, reflect, and discuss extracts from variou authors and scholars. 

 

Our sessions engage with works that examine both the indefinability of B/blackness and its lived realities. We also consider performance not only as artistic practice, but as an ontological framework - a way of being, knowing, and relating.