by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s podcast about America’s obsession with race. Here’s a rundown of what you’ll find in this episode:
What does the recent Twitter exchange between actress Kirstie Alley and media assassin Harry Allen tell us about this country’s discourse on race? Is the brouhaha surrounding Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination indicative of anxiety on the part of white males that they are an endangered species? Can dorming with a student of another race turn you less or more racist? And why is DJ Spooky’s “(Re)Birth of a Nation” experiment an epic fail? Carmen Van Kerckhove, Tami Winfrey Harris, and Andrea Plaid discuss.
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Hello folks. I’m writing to you from a remote area of the Pacific, and I would like to say it’s really depressing to hear such a shallow critique of my film remix. My remix of the film is in the same tradition as Alice Randall’s “The Wind Done Gone.” The idea of satire and complex re-scoring is to create an application of dj technique to the film. I’m just coming to this after the 100th Anniversary of the NAACP, which I was commisioned to create a new composition for the NAACP. I really wish that you all would engage more of a complex critique of contemporary art. I simply am stunned at how shallow the critique is. If you look at the responses to Griffith’s film by African American film makers like Oscar Michaux in the 1920′s and the relationship to current films like “Transformers” (which still has minstrel like characters), you can easily see that there is alot more contemporary material reflecting the dynamics of contemporary cinema. I’d be happy to respond to any of your comments. I am an artist, composer, and writer involved with contemporary multi-cultural issues, and my work is unapologetically complex, and does not simplify the situation. I’d appreciate a chance to respond to your comments. It really saddens me that you all cannot engage the ART situation. The film is in the same context as artists like Kara Walker, Michael Ray Charles, Hank Willis, Saul Williams and others.
Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky
Paul aka Dj Spooky