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CARRIE MAE WEEMS Strategies of Engagement edited by Robin Lydenberg and Ash Anderson McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement in the Daley Family and Monan Galleries at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, September 10–December 13, 2018. Organized by the McMullen Museum, Strategies of Engagement has been curated by Robin Lydenberg and Ash Anderson and underwritten by Boston College with major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum and Robert (’63) and Ann Marie Reardon (P ’91). Library of Congress Control Number: 2018949941 ISBN: 978-1-892850-33-1 Distributed by the University of Chicago Press Printed in the United States of America © 2018 The Trustees of Boston College © 1988–2016 Carrie Mae Weems All images appear courtesy of Carrie Mae Weems and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Designer: John McCoy Copyeditor: Kate Shugert Front: All the Boys (Profile 2), 2016, plate 11.2 Back: CONTENTS PREFACE 1 CARRIE MAE WEEMS: STRATEGIES OF ENGAGEMENT 3 Robin Lydenberg “AND FOR YOU I PLAYED A SORROW SONG”: LOOKING AT FRANCES JOHNSTON’S PHOTOGRAPHS WITH CARRIE MAE WEEMS 15 Faith Smith SCREENED MEMORIES, A CHOREOGRAPHY OF GRACE: THE VIDEO ART OF CARRIE MAE WEEMS 21 Stephen Pfohl CARRIE MAE WEEMS: GUIDE TO CIRCUMSTANCES SELDOM SEEN 33 Maren Stange AIN’T JOKIN’: UNSETTLING VOYEURISM THROUGH ART AND AFFECT 37 Rhonda Frederick and Leigh Patel PUBLIC FORUM: “PICTURES AND PROGRESS” 45 Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Carrie Mae Weems, José Rivera, and Jeremy McCarter PLATES 49 CONTRIBUTORS 171 PREFACE Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse purus accumsan facilisis. Nulla iaculis, nisi a egestas porttitor, lorem purus tincidunt, velit nec sagittis finibus, turpis tortor cursus ligula, ut congue rhoncus metus, non sagittis nulla tortor ut lorem. 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Aliquam laoreet quam eu imperdiet pellentesque. Nancy Netzer Sed hendrerit ullamcorper nisl interdum pellentesque. Etiam erat nibh, Director and Professor of Art History vestibulum et nibh quis, ultricies gravida sapien. Nullam luctus quam a 1 PREFACE 2 CARRIE MAE WEEMS: STRATEGIES OF ENGAGEMENT Robin Lydenberg Carrie Mae Weems has spent over thir- disrupt the smoothness of official accounts of ty-five years producing a unique body of the past, immersing herself and her viewers work distinguished by its theoretical sophis- in the “tangled web just beneath the veneer of tication, its formal elegance, and its commit- order.”1 Weems’s process is at once pedagogi- ment to social justice. Her art has been widely cal and collaborative, as she enters history in recognized for its critical deconstruction of the fullness of her humanity and brings her both the master narratives of history and the audience along with her. conventions of visual and textual representa- The common goal that drives all of tion. In her major contributions to cultural Weems’s work is to bring about what bell debates about the racial dynamics that domi- hooks calls “a revolution in the way we see, nate American culture, Weems has expanded the way we look.”2 For Weems, this is an ongo- those discussions to encompass the even more ing revolution that is continually revitalized complex power relations at the intersection by new aesthetic and political strategies. The of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Bridging fulcrum for my analysis will be the 1995–96 the gap between the particular and the uni- photo/text series From Here I Saw What Hap- versal, she reveals through the specificity of pened and I Cried (plates 3.1–33), a mid-ca- the varied lived experiences of black bodies reer piece that fully realizes Weems’s early in the world the common humanity shared photographic practices and anticipates the by us all. expanded field of her subsequent projects in Weems has developed a range of strat- video, performance, installation, and com- egies to engage with a global history of munity activism.3 oppression and resistance as it relates to our Weems began her artistic career with a present moment. One of her early strategies broad background in photography, dance, involved presenting the past from the per- folklore, and radical politics. In her earli- spective of a critical witness, accompanying est work, however, her focus was personal. photographic images with textual narrative. 1. Carrie Mae Weems, Dad with Grandkids from Family Pictures and Challenging the distorted characterization She soon developed more active modes of Stories, 1978–84. Gelatin silver print, 8.5 x 13 in. of black family life given official sanction by intervention: questioning the photograph’s the 1965 Moynihan Report, Weems presents status as evidentiary document;
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