Reading the River: Yamaya and Oshun

Project Added: November 20, 2020
Project Point of Contact: [email protected]

A photo from the project's website

Image courtesy of Tia Simone Gardner

Arts-and Intersections:

Environment, History & Heritage

Collaborators:

Location:

New Orleans, Vicksburg, Memphis, St. Louis, Cairo, St. Paul, Mississippi

Region:

Genre/Discipline:

Film

Population Density:

Suburban

Large Intended Impact Area:

County/Multi-County Region

Foundations:

OVERVIEW

Reading the River: Yamaya and Oshun is an experimental documentary that looks at the relationship between Blackness and the Mississippi River. The work brings together aspects of geography, architecture, and a feminist practice of unsettling how we think and know place.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

PROJECT EVALUATION

Currently not available.