Gabrielle Goliath, Beloved (Sylvia), 2023, oil stick on paper, 7m x 60cm
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Sylvia Wynter, Jamaican dancer, novelist, dramatist, critic and philosopher
“The larger issue is, then, the incorporation of all forms of human being into a single homogenized descriptive statement that is based on the figure of the West’s liberal monohumanist Man … We therefore now need to initiate the exploration of the new reconceptualized form of knowledge that would be called for by Fanon’s redefinition of being human as that of skins and masks … And notice! One major implication here: humanness is no longer a noun. Being human is a praxis.”
Unparalleled Catastrophe for our Species? Or, to Give Humanness a Different Future: Conversations, 2015