Martine Syms uses video and performance to examine representations of Blackness and its relationship to Black vernacular, American situation comedy, feminist movements and radical traditions. From 2007-2011 she was the co-director of the Chicago artist-run project space Golden Age, and she currently runs Dominica Publishing: an imprint dedicated to exploring blackness in visual culture. She is the author of Implications and Distinctions: Format, Content and Context in Contemporary Race Film (2011).

Rizvana Bradley is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies and African-American Studies at Yale University. This year she is a Visiting Research Fellow in the History of Art Department at University College London.  She was recently appointed Assistant Editor at the journal, boundary 2.

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Image: Martine Syms, Incense, Sweaters and Ice, 2017. Film still. Courtesy of the artist and Bridget Donahue, New York.