Cauleen Smith

Name: Cauleen Smith
Brand: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
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Give It or Leave It

By: Cauleen Smith, Rhea Anastas (Text by), Rodney McMillian (Text by), Anthony Elms (Text by)

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Paperback | 22 October 2019

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82 Pages

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23.1 x 16.8 x 1.91

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A multimedia portrait of four famed utopian sites celebrating a Black, spiritual America

Through films, objects, and installation, Chicago-based filmmaker Cauleen Smith (born 1967) offers an emotional axis by which to navigate four distinct universes: Alice Coltrane and her Sai Anantam ashram; a 1966 photo shoot by Bill Ray at Simon Rodia''s Watts Towers in Los Angeles; Noah Purifoy and his desert assemblages in Joshua Tree; and black spiritualist Rebecca Cox Jackson and her Shaker community in 19th-century Philadelphia.

These locations, while not technically utopian societies, embody sites of historical speculation and radical generosity between artist and community. In reimagining a future through this mix, Smith casts a world that is black, feminist, spiritual and unabashedly alive.

This volume, wrapped in a frosted and foil-stamped dust jacket, contains full-color photographs of the multi-room installation and provides further insight into Smith''s creative process and myriad influences through two interviews and a manifesto written by the artist.

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