In the third and for the time being last edition of the Poetics of Refusal series at Gessnerallee, which is dedicated to artistic and political gestures of refusal, Rizvana Bradley and Henrike Kohpeiss turn their attention to aesthetic and political interruptions in jazz. Taking Nina Simone's legendary non-performance at the 1967 Montreux Jazz Festival as a starting point, they will examine the (im)possibility of the appearance of blackness in the “racial regime of aesthetics” in two lectures and a discussion. They will discuss both the underlying violence of this regime and strategies of non-performance and withdrawal against it.
In the third and for the time being last edition of the Poetics of Refusal series at Gessnerallee, which is dedicated to artistic and political gestures of refusal, Rizvana Bradley and Henrike Kohpeiss turn their attention to aesthetic and political interruptions in jazz. Taking Nina Simone's legendary non-performance at the 1967 Montreux Jazz Festival as a starting point, they will examine the (im)possibility of the appearance of blackness in the “racial regime of aesthetics” in two lectures and a discussion. They will discuss both the underlying violence of this regime and strategies of non-performance and withdrawal against it.
