My collaborator and I are working on an art installation about immigration and we're both second-generation but from different backgrounds, and we keep having these careful conversations where we're trying not to speak for each other while still making something cohesive.
More people experience this than they realize.
Creating art about identity together requires negotiating who has permission to say what on behalf of whom.
“Where Are You with African aesthetics — across the continent?”
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