TY - JOUR
A1 - Baravalle, Marco 
 
PY - 2021 
TI - ASSEMBLY. Notes on Fugitivity and Capture 
JO - Plemos 
SN - 9788855224819/2281-9517 
AB - The article takes its starting point from Assembly (2022) by Rashaad Newsome. An ambitious and complex work (performance, installation and workshop at the same time), it is proposed as a multifaceted celebration of Voguing, a dance style codified in the United States during the 1980s in the context of gay, queer, black and Latin ball culture. This text focuses on the participatory practices that characterize the work and the conception of assembly that it conveys. Finally, recalling Fred Moten’s work on the concept of “fugitivity”, an open problem is outlined. How do we define lines of escape in the face of neoliberal attempts to co-opt those radical social demands characteristic of blackness aesthetics and recently embodied by the latest wave of Black Lives Matter?  
SE - 2/2021 
DA - 2021 
KW - assembly
KW - fugitivity
KW - blackness
KW - voguing
KW - black lives matter
KW - assemblea   
UR - https://www.rivistapolemos.it/assembly-notes-on-fugitivity-and-capture/?lang=en 
DO - 10.48247/P2021-2-003 
PB - Donzelli Editore
LA - en  
SP - 33 
EP - 56 
ER - 

@article{1048247/P20212003,
author = {Marco Baravalle},
title = {ASSEMBLY. Notes on Fugitivity and Capture},
publisher = {Donzelli Editore},
year = {2021},
ISBN = {9788855224819},
issn = {2281-9517},
abstract = {The article takes its starting point from Assembly (2022) by Rashaad Newsome. An ambitious and complex work (performance, installation and workshop at the same time), it is proposed as a multifaceted celebration of Voguing, a dance style codified in the United States during the 1980s in the context of gay, queer, black and Latin ball culture. This text focuses on the participatory practices that characterize the work and the conception of assembly that it conveys. Finally, recalling Fred Moten’s work on the concept of “fugitivity”, an open problem is outlined. How do we define lines of escape in the face of neoliberal attempts to co-opt those radical social demands characteristic of blackness aesthetics and recently embodied by the latest wave of Black Lives Matter?}
journal = {Pólemos},
number = {2/2021},
doi = {10.48247/P2021-2-003},
URL = {https://www.rivistapolemos.it/assembly-notes-on-fugitivity-and-capture/?lang=en},
keywords = {assembly; fugitivity; blackness; voguing; black lives matter; assemblea.},
pages = {33-56},
language = {en}
}