[Frameworks] Three days to see A Willing Suspension of Disbelief... by artist Christopher Harris

[John Muse]

Now on view at Haverford College in 006 VCAM, the Lower Level Create Space, 10am to 5pm.  Through Friday April 26th:  


From Harris’ description of the work: A response to an 1850 daguerreotype of a young American-born enslaved woman named Delia. Delia was photographed stripped bare as visual evidence in support of an ethnographic study by the Swiss-born naturalist and Harvard Professor Louis Agassiz, who held that racial characteristics are a result of differing human origins.

Bio: Christopher Harris is a filmmaker whose films and video installations read African American historiography through the poetics and   The recipient of a 2015 Creative Capital grant and a 2017 Alpert/MacDowell Fellowship, Harris is currently Associate Professor and Head of Film & Video Production at the University of Iowa.

See https://www.haverford.edu/hcah/center/events/strange-truth-2019 <https://www.haverford.edu/hcah/center/events/strange-truth-2019>

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john muse
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haverford college
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http://haverford.academia.edu/JohnMuse

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