What led to the creation of Movin’ Legacy and who does it serve?
In philosophical studies of
performative structures,
European and non-Black forms
have historically been prioritized
—and given intellectual
importance and prominence.
Non-Black performative structures have been deemed less
amenable to situational interpretation, and for centuries, this
philosophy has been used to measure what is intelligible and
therefore regarded as human.
Prioritizing the presence of written letters over embodied meaning
is the foundation of such racist theory and implicit bias. Movin’
Legacy seeks to expand the conversation to reach beyond written
text to include an Africanist philosophical perspective of art –
expressed in how Black bodies claim space and dance through it
to communicate and uphold cultural histories.