Here at the Stuart Hall Archive Project we have embarked upon a collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. This summer we have been thrilled to welcome three PhD Visiting Fellows, who have been conducting research at the archive.
Jazmin Maço is an Art, Art History, and Visual Studies PhD student at Duke University whose research focuses on photography and film produced by queer and Caribbean diasporic artists. During their time as a Stuart Hall Archive Project Fellow, Maço probed the archive to excavate materials related to Stuart Hall’s creative collaborations with various members of the 80’s Black British Arts Movement including Isaac Julien, Sonia Boyce, and Rotimi Fani Kayode. This work seeks to emphasize Hall’s historical role as a creative intellectual alongside his more widely known legacy as a writer, theorist, and political organizer as a means to encourage the contemporary propagation of similar interdisciplinary, “critically conscious” collaborations in and beyond academic spaces. Maço’s research ultimately highlights organizations and projects such as Autograph, INIVA, Ten.8 magazine, Different: A Historical Context, Looking for Langston (1989), The Attendant (1993), and Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks (1996) as representative examples of Hall’s sustained contributions to the creative field which extend his intellectual-political legacy.