On Tuesday, June 2, 2020, guests joined Antwaun Sargent and Nicole R. Fleetwood as they discussed Fleetwood’s new book, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.
Marking Time offers an intimate and powerful examination of art and visual culture as a critique of mass incarceration. The book features a diverse assortment of work, including prison studio photos, drawings, self-portraits, and sculpture made by incarcerated artists and nonincarcerated photographers and artists concerned about policing, surveillance, and the rise of the carceral state.
Sargent and Fleetwood discussed the connections between Black culture, art, and politics, as well as the history of Black artists in social justice movements and in transforming art institutions.
