Archives as Bridges: in conversation with shady Radical

Join us for a documentary screening followed by an archival workshop.

About the speaker

shady R. Radical, M.A., CA, Ph.D. works around issues of preservation in Black performance and production cultures. She earned a Ph.D. from Georgia State University in Moving Image Studies and a Master's degree in Curatorial Arts and Visual Culture from New York University. Currently, she is teaching Dance history in the Dance Performance and Choreography Department at Spelman College. She's taught Race and Representation in Film & TV; Documenting Performance; and The History of Film at Georgia State University.

​While writing, archiving, and curating form the three nodes of her preservation practice, it was her experience as a key costumer at Tyler Perry Studios that ultimately inspired her passion and pursuit. In 2021, She established The Radical Archive of Performance (t.r.a.p.), also the subject of her dissertation. Her dissertation explores the theoretical implications at the intersection between the archive, blackness, and film/tv production culture.

Host or Publisher Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History