Anthony R. Green

Lives and works in US/UK

Artist statement

Artist Statement: Anthony R. Green I'm tired of the narrative that the Black body is only or mostly struggle. I want to see a narrative that emphasizes the ethical and spiritual significance of that struggle against racial discrimination, a narrative that speaks to how bodies that struggle are bodies that are the most pure; bodies that struggle are free from wanting others to experience what they experienced. When Sojourner Truth wrote "there is no beginning but the beginning of a wrong; all that has a beginning will have an ending, and all that is good is without end", she implied that the body who struggles and doesn't oppress is part of the default of existence, which is goodness. I strive to create art that is part of this goodness – created from an energy that has no beginning and no ending. My personal practice incorporates sound, performance, video, multimedia, and social justice. Past and current projects have included creating music, graphic, and text scores, fixed media audio, moving image, creative and scholarly writing, improvisation, performance art, and more. In all my solo and collaborative creations, I start from a foundation comprising freedom and equality, but from the perspective of the oppressed body in various stages of the existence process. By utilizing this Black metric, I can create art in such a manner that emphasizes purity, encourages celebration, portrays survival, and elucidates a joy that only a struggling body experiences, specifically Queer...

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