Description
In a roving, shimmering conversation that took place in May 2021, scholar, poet, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs and playwright, songwriter, performance artist, and educator Daniel Alexander Jones discuss love as a foundational principle of artistic practice and societal change. Reflecting on Love Like Light, Daniel Alexander Jones's collection of seven plays and performance texts (published by 53rd State in July 2021), DAJ and APG illuminate the ways in which an attention to care, community, nuance, invitation, perceptual particularities, and embodied conditions can resist the profoundly extractive context in which life is lived and art is made. As they discuss the work of Audre Lorde, Billie Holiday, Beah Richards, Bayard Rustin, and Malcolm X, as well as that of DAJ's grandma Daisy Mae and APG's grandmother, aunt, and niece, DAJ and APG propose that love, like light, suffuses everything, and that love, like light, creates a field in which transformation, justice, healing, and radical beauty are not just possible--they are already, now.
Author: Daniel Alexander Jones, Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Publisher: 53rd State Press
Published: 10/19/2021
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 5.90h x 4.30w x 0.20d
ISBN13: 9781737025504
ISBN10: 1737025507
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Theater | History & Criticism