Season 3, Episode 1: Black Freedom Dreams
Season 3, Episode 1: Black Freedom Dreams
In this episode, edna bonhomme speaks with Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor about Florida, Black communities in the American South, dreams, decolonizing the arts, writing, and joy.
Transcriptions for all episodes are available upon request.
Biography
Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor
Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor is an artist, filmmaker, and community organizer. Her roots are in the Southern United States, born in Mississippi and bred in Florida, formerly Thimogona land. Taylor's work manifests through performance, text, dialogue, dance, and community building for Black People. Her work centers on themes of ritual, visibility, and identity mythology. She is chiefly concerned with ways to dismantle oppressive institutions and the creation of racial equity in art and theater. She is currently based in Berlin and is pursuing her Masters in Black British Literature at Goldsmiths University in London.
Bibliography
Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor, the only negro at the party: an elegy in four acts, a creative writing piece on Theaster Gates’s installation "Black Chapel" at Haus der Kunst, Munich (2020)
Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor, “Wie viel zählt ein Schwarzes Leben in Deutschland?,” with English version titled: “Do Black Lives Matter in Germany?”, Vogue (May 31, 2019)
Show credits
INTERVIEW
edna bonhomme
POST-PRODUCTION
edna bonhomme
MUSIC
Freesounds.org (Creative Commons)
Thank you
Many thanks to Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor and to the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.