Europe’s colonial project engaged racist premises to justify the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and the occupation and economic exploitation of Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Its supremacist ideology found greater validation in the 18th century, when medicine first used of the term “race” to classify human beings and the fine arts set whiteness as the definition of beauty. 88. Flesh Red resists colonial discourse and deconstructs its view of “high art” by signaling how ancestral movement vocabularies manifest in the contemporary artform KRUMP.
Official Selection, Dance Camera North Change Maker Award
With Tumelo Khupe
Director of Photography and Editor: Derrick Chui; Production Designer: Thomas Barrett; Motion Designer: Ned Hurley; Composers: J.S. Bach (Fernando Thebaldi, viola), Umar Malik, Bravo Domo; Sound Designer: Lucas Martin; Poster: Skylar Hellman.
