PUBLIC SERVICE | Episode 2: Visions and Visionaries featuring Grace Wales Bonner and Antwaun Sargent
with Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, Poly Styrene, and Edward Said.

The early work of acclaimed designer Grace Wales Bonner responded to how Black culture was addressed in fashion. The process of representation-as-translation, for Wales Bonner, draws from the modern African diaspora to suture—and propel forward—the histories of Black artists and intellectuals in African, American, and European cultures into something at once familiar and projective. When imagining new aesthetic approaches rooted in one’s identity and heritage, how might artists and designers of color engage in this endeavor by looking to history and collaborative modes of cultural production as resources? How can we imagine new sensibilities and self-definitions related to our layered, diasporic identities and histories with self-determination, complexity, and care?

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Launched by Grace Wales Bonner following her graduation from Central Saint Martins in 2014, Wales Bonner is informed by broad cultural research and embraces a multiplicity of perspectives. Grace Wales Bonner has received numerous awards including Emerging Menswear Designer at the British Fashion Awards (2015), the LVMH Young Designer Prize (2016), Winner of the British Fashion Council/ Vogue Designer Fashion Fund (2019), CFDA International Men's Designer of the Year (2021) and Independent British Brand at the Fashion Awards (2022). Wales Bonner has collaborated with brands including adidas Originals, Anderson & Sheppard, and Dior. Grace Wales Bonner’s curatorial exhibitions include 'A Time For New Dreams', Serpentine Galleries London (2019) and 'Artist’s Choice - Spirit Movers' at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023) with the accompanying publication, 'Dream in the Rhythm: Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection' (2023).

Antwaun Sargent is a writer, editor, and curator. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, and various art and museum publications. Sargent is author of 'The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion' (Aperture, 2019) and editor of 'Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists' (2020). He is also a director at Gagosian Gallery.

► EPISODE 2 CREDITS
Created by Esther M. Choi
Graphic design by Studio Lin
Production assistance by Kapish Cheema
Music by Esther M. Choi

Archival images from @WalesBonner ([ Ссылка ]), walesbonner.net, and @SamanArchive ([ Ссылка ]). This conversation was recorded in January 2023.

Closed captioning in English is provided.
Thank you to everyone involved and thank you for watching. ♡

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