The Museum of Modern Art | Kinloch and outer space are both frontiers | Ep 6 | REIMAGINING BLACKNESS & ARCHITECTURE @themuseumofmodernart | Uploaded April 2021 | Updated October 2024, 14 hours ago.
How can we imagine new ways of being? Artist Amanda Williams discusses her project “We’re Not Down There, We’re Over Here,” the history of African American innovation, and the inspirations she found in Kinloch, Missouri to imagine what Black people might need to arrive at free Black space.

Home Movie footage from the Buford Family Collection, Jean Patton Collection, and Dr. George Reed Jr. Collection courtesy of The South Side Home Movie Project

Kinloch footage courtesy of Alana Marie: thekinlochdoc.com

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