Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman on their film Neptune Frost & other things

Africa World Now Project · Mar 16, 2022 · 59m

Art — in all manifestations — has purpose. And that purpose is defined by those who are able to pick it up and use it. The spiritual, intellectual, and physical energies that are put into the creation of art are a reflection of the worldview of the artist — of the artist not in an individualistic sense but of the collective energies that culminate into the being that is producing the art — their ancestors, the environment, the community … the material and non-material realities. Amiri Baraka (1987) in his article, Black Art, published in the Black Scholar, suggests that “art … is an…