Ulysses Jenkins : without your interpretation / edited by Erin Christovale & Meg Onli.

First edition.

Philadelphia, PA : Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania ; Los Angeles, CA : Hammer Museum, [2021]

©2021

287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 26 cm

Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, September 17-December 30, 2021, and the Hammer Museum, February 6-May 15, 2022.

Since the 1970s, Ulysses Jenkins has interrogated questions of race and gender as they relate to ritual, history, and state power. From his work with Video Venice News, a Los Angeles media collective he founded in the early 1970s, to his involvement with the artists' group Studio Z (alongside figures such as David Hammons, Senga Nengudi, and Maren Hassinger), to his video and performance works, Jenkins explores how white supremacy is embedded in popular culture. Beginning as a painter and muralist, Jenkins was introduced to video just as the first consumer cameras were made available, and he quickly seized upon the technology as a means to broadcast critical depictions of multiculturalism. This catalog features an extensive portion of Jenkins' archive, early documentary films, photographs, and ephemera, as well as his video art.

Without your interpretation

English

March 15, 2022