{"id":7299,"date":"2023-09-13T12:47:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T19:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=7299"},"modified":"2024-07-11T15:27:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T22:27:39","slug":"question-bridge-black-males","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/event\/question-bridge-black-males\/","title":{"rendered":"Question Bridge: Black Males"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Presented in conjunction with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/event\/hank-willis-thomas-all-things-being-equal\/\"><em>Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal\u2026<\/em><\/a>, on view in the Main Building,&nbsp;<em>Question Bridge: Black Males<\/em>&nbsp;is a project by&nbsp;Chris Johnson, Hank Willis Thomas, Bayet\u00e9 Ross Smith, and Kamal Sinclair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Question Bridge: Black Males<\/em>&nbsp;is a documentary in multiple forms: a gallery installation, a website, a book, and a curriculum. It presents diverse experiences of Black men through a video question-and-answer exchange, a \u201cquestion bridge,\u201d to break down stereotypes of Black male identity perpetuated by America\u2019s white dominant culture. Thomas and his collaborators traveled across the United States, recording questions from nearly 160 men, bringing the questions to others to answer, and filming additional questions from those respondents that other participants, in turn, could later address. The project enables a large group of men to speak to each other across geographic, economic, political, and generational divisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tragic death of his cousin Songha Willis drove Thomas\u2019s commitment to making&nbsp;<em>Question Bridge: Black Males<\/em>: \u201cI [had] struggled for eight years to find creative ways to deal with my cousin\u2019s murder and the larger genocide of African American males. For me the problem seems tied to the overall myth of Black maleness. The image of the Black male created by commercial media and historical suggestion is a fraud. My aim is to expose it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The single-channel projection creates the sensation of a virtual conversation, with participants speaking across time and distance, and from their own lived experience. Their voices are key: being heard, not just seen, reaffirms each man\u2019s subjectivity and counteracts dangerous generalizations about group identity. In Thomas\u2019s human-centered art, the elementary call to hear and see one another\u2014to recognize each other as unique yet interdependent human beings\u2014is undeniably necessary to overcome racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Curated by Sara Krajewski, The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Julia Dolan, Ph.D., The Minor White Curator of Photography.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Learn more at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/questionbridge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">questionbridge.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Presented in conjunction with&nbsp;Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal\u2026, on view in the Main Building,&nbsp;Question Bridge: Black Males&nbsp;is a project by&nbsp;Chris Johnson, Hank Willis Thomas, Bayet\u00e9 Ross Smith, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":7300,"template":"","meta":{"_tec_requires_first_save":false,"pam_header_media":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_EventAllDay":true,"_EventTimezone":"America\/Vancouver","_EventStartDate":"2019-10-03 00:00:00","_EventEndDate":"2020-01-12 23:59:59","_EventStartDateUTC":"2019-10-03 07:00:00","_EventEndDateUTC":"2020-01-13 07:59:59","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"$","_EventCurrencyCode":"USD","_EventCurrencyPosition":"prefix","_EventDateTimeSeparator":" @ ","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":" - 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