How is the body ever not politic? Especially when black youth in hoodies are deemed threats, and women are viewed as commodities of availability…how, in this social climate is the body not politic? Aura Rosenberg and I began a conversation about her work in March of this year, during her I Know It When I See It exhibition at Martos Gallery. The exhibition title refers to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s famous answer on the nature of hard-core pornography, as outlined in Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964). Stewart’s answer acknowledges certain social nuances as indescribable yet detectable by the eye. As if our eyes operate independently of social mores—whether or not we are in agreement or in question of such mores.
So how do politic-aware bodies engage worlds of sensation, undeterred by dominant paradigms?
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