Sublime

In the developing American empire, the relationship between visuality, racialization, and domination is most arguably realized with American Indian subjects.

dancers

Audre Lorde’s essay The Uses of the Erotic

Engaging these images as decidedly haptic objects is a method that requires us to interrogate both the archival encounter, as well as the content of archival collections, in multiple tenses and multiple temporalities and in ways that attend to both their stakes and possibilities.