Recorded on December 15, 2024 at the Des Moines Art Center.
Luke Williams is a scholar, artist, organizer, and critic of 20th and 21st century Black performance and visual cultures. His work, which spans embodiment, racial capitalism, and the aesthetics of the Black radical imagination, focuses on Black diasporic art in the Americas and broader Atlantic world.
Samantha Box is a Jamaican-born, Bronx (New York City)-based photographer. Her images complicate received notions of a singular home or place or origin. Ranging across genres of self-portraiture, landscape, and still-life, Box’s layered and experimental work is at once alluring and challenging. Box’s exhibition “Caribbean Dreams” was on view at the Des Moines Art Center October 11, 2024 – January 19, 2025.
