Antwaun Sargent (Sirsargent) talks to danikwateng about his unconventional career path and breaking down classist barriers in art
talked with Antwaun about his unconventional career path, breaking down classist barriers, and intentional work that shows the duplicity of Black art.AS: At Georgetown, I was in the School of Foreign Service, and I studied politics. I really thought I was going to go into politics. I was Hillary Clinton's intern. When I finished college, all of my friends were moving to New York. And so I was just like, "OK. I guess I'll move to New York. And so, I need to find a job.
And so, I needed an education in what does it mean to write. So I took on these sort of courses ... there was like internet stuff, and there was like old-school stuff, like culture stuff, and I was just writing. I wasn't being paid much at all, but I had this teaching job. And so, the teaching job was the job that paid the bills, and then I would go and cover nightlife formagazine. I would write about these artists, and they would just be really...
AS: One of the conversations the art world loves to have, particularly around Blackness and Black artistic production, is this idea of representation. Right? And representation is hugely important, but it's not the only conversation. You know? And so, my point is like we can have multiple conversations at once. These images are porous enough that we can sort of think about, yes, sort of the social. But we can also think about the formal aspects of these images.
AS: I let the art guide me. I'm not trying to put additional ideas, or I'm not trying to create some sort of propaganda. It really is about the work, and where the work goes. I've done a lot of group projects because I wanted to make sure that we were thinking about community, and how community happens in certain spaces. In thisshow, you have eight different artists from a very different context, working under very different conditions. I think that's important.
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