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Manual / Issue 14 / Shadows, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor-In-Chief, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Andrea Achi, Emanuel Admassu, Anita N. Bateman, Makeda Best, Gina Borromeo, Rashayla Marie Brown, Shuriya Davis, Akwaeke Emezi, Tayana Fincher, Melanee C. Harvey, Kate Irvin, Sade Lanay, Dominic Molon, Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Kevin Quashie, Matthew Shenoda, Kelly Taylor Mitchell, Leslie Wilson
Manual / Issue 14 / Shadows, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor-In-Chief, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Andrea Achi, Emanuel Admassu, Anita N. Bateman, Makeda Best, Gina Borromeo, Rashayla Marie Brown, Shuriya Davis, Akwaeke Emezi, Tayana Fincher, Melanee C. Harvey, Kate Irvin, Sade Lanay, Dominic Molon, Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Kevin Quashie, Matthew Shenoda, Kelly Taylor Mitchell, Leslie Wilson
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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Shadows. This anti-visibility is not the same as being invisible, rather it is the power to operate against systems of imperial domination, including the gaze. It asks: How do we force the gaze to surrender? What if explanation were off the table? By enabling a petit marronage that can be expressed in the visual and symbolic use of shadow, the gaze is challenged. This issue of Manual and the accompanying exhibition (opening at the RISD Museum Fall 2020) posit that the right to opacity de-burdens contemporary work by artists who identify as …