{"id":36817,"date":"2014-07-10T20:25:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T20:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36817"},"modified":"2014-07-10T20:25:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T20:25:12","slug":"arc-introduces-tiana-reid-as-junior-arts-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36817","title":{"rendered":"ARC Introduces Tiana Reid as Junior Arts Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arcthemagazine.com\/arc\/2014\/02\/arc-introduces-tiana-reid-as-junior-arts-writer\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>ARC Introduces Tiana Reid as Junior Arts Writer<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arcthemagazine.com\" target=\"_blank\">ARC: Art. Recognition. Culture.<\/a><br \/>\n2014-02-03<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tiana Reid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I laboured for quite some time over what to write as my introduction to joining <em>ARC Magazine\u2019s<\/em> team as Junior Arts Writer. How to approach the unstarted?<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking first of preparing a brief manifesto-like document. That was one approach that could explicate the nuts and bolts of how I see the world. And in a few paragraphs or less! Perhaps, drawing on the words of Singapore artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hemanchong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heman Chong<\/a> and Sweden-based artist <a href=\"http:\/\/anthonymarcellini.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Marcellini\u2019s<\/a> 2013 video collaboration, I would mock up plots for things to come.<\/p>\n<p>Another approach would be a biography. You know, \u201cI was born in Toronto. I went to school at McGill. I have my M.A. in African-American Studies at Columbia. I live in Brooklyn.\u201d I would likely pause on my non-art history background and explore my academic interest in visual culture against my permanent and affected interest as a writer in reading and speculation. When it comes to the former, my master\u2019s thesis illuminated the shared yet dissimilar aesthetic practices of poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativewriting.emory.edu\/faculty\/trethewey.html\" target=\"_blank\">Natasha Trethewey<\/a> and conceptual artist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adrian_Piper\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Piper<\/a>. My thesis used \u2018mixed-race\u2019 studies as a vexed entryway to trouble claims to a speculative hybrid future, and argued that the desire and alleged ability to see a mythical (post)-racially hybrid body is intimately connected to the disavowal of black life and histories of violence&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/arcthemagazine.com\/arc\/2014\/02\/arc-introduces-tiana-reid-as-junior-arts-writer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARC Introduces Tiana Reid as Junior Arts Writer ARC: Art. Recognition. Culture. 2014-02-03 Tiana Reid I laboured for quite some time over what to write as my introduction to joining ARC Magazine\u2019s team as Junior Arts Writer. How to approach the unstarted? I was thinking first of preparing a brief manifesto-like document. That was one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20],"tags":[17578,17579,17577,14229],"class_list":["post-36817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-arc","tag-arc-magazine","tag-arc-art-recognition-culture","tag-tiana-reid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}