Design Activism/2015/9 min/Reel № 15.001
ByTia Blassingame
The texture of racism & slavery in the United States – a talk by Tia Blassingame
Make. Change./Recorded 2015
A close reading, kept within reach.
Tia Blassingame takes design activism as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in USA in 2015, the conversation is grounded in Tia's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
"I made a headscarf that talks about the accumulation of wealth through slavery, as the black body as gold but also seeming worthless."
About the speaker
Tia Blassingame
USA
Tia Blassingame uses the art of letterpress printing in her work which explores the relationship between race, history and perception.
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