This fall 500 Louisianans will re-create America’s largest plantation uprising in a provocative two-day performance-art piece
I climbed a levee in Montz, Louisiana, with the artist Dread Scott. The wind was whipping, and muddy water streamed through an open dam into the Bonnet Carré Spillway. The area, once home to sprawling riverfront plantations, is now dedicated to wildlife and recreation. But the day we visited, its hiking trails, off-road-vehicle courses, and historic cemeteries were under water.
now on display at Space One Eleven in Birmingham, Alabama, consists of six silhouette targets with attached arm casts, each holding an innocuous object that police shooters claimed to have mistaken for guns. Just in front of them, mechanized nightsticks intermittently strike a hollow coffin. The exhibition was also an expression of solidarity with victims of state power. Defying a police department threat to bring felony charges against anyone who set foot on the flag, victims of law enforcement brutality wrote some of the most supportive comments. “If black people had not been willing to offend,” the artist told reporters, “we’d still be slaves today.”to reenact a slave rebellion, he had Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey in mind.
Left, from The Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection; right, illustrations by Monika Grist-Werner.
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