Kevin Beasley in conversation with Daphne Brooks and Jace Clayton | Live from the Whitney

In his exhibition A view of a landscape, Kevin Beasley examines and attempts to unravel power and history in the American South through the highly-mediated use of a 20th-century cotton gin motor from Alabama. For this program, Beasley invites writer and scholar Daphne Brooks and interdisciplinary artist Jace Clayton to discuss ways of understanding race, labor, and ancestry through an artistic lens. Daphne Brooks is professor of African American Studies and Theater Studies at Yale University. She specializ