Nana Adusei-Poku in conversation with Melvin Edwards

On the occasion of Melvin Edwards’s exhibition at the Fridericianum, a film documenting a conversation between Melvin Edwards and Nana Adusei-Poku (Assistant Professor for Art History and African American Studies at Yale University) has been produced.

Nana Adusei-Poku works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art and African American Studies at Yale University. Her research interests include how cultural changes are articulated at the intersections of art, politics and popular culture, artistic productions from the Black Diaspora, Black Exhibition Histories and curatorial practice as a research tool for shaping art historical discourses. She curated a.o. the exhibition Black Melancholia at the CCS Bard Galleries, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 2022, and the event Performances of No-thingness at the Academy of Arts Berlin in 2018. Adusei-Poku is the author of Taking Stakes in the Unknown – Tracing Post-Black Art (2021) and published Reshaping the Field – Arts of the African Diasporas on Display (2022). Her latest exhibition Black Melancholia is the base for her next monograph of the same title.