Enunciated Life

Author: Taylor Aldridge (Author), Joe Tolbert Jr (Contributor), Cameron Shaw (Foreword)
Publisher: California African American Museum
Year: 2021
Pages: 135
ISBN: 978-0578957753

Enunciated Life and its epilogue Inspirited: Coda, utilize Black spiritual beliefs as a point of departure for considering modes of surrender, looking at the movements, sounds, and corporeal expressions that have generated lexicons of communication within and beyond Black church sites.

The exhibition’s title is derived from the scholarship of Ashon T. Crawley, who recognizes the beauty and power of breathing within Black Pentecostalism “to enunciate life, life that is exorbitant, capacious, and fundamentally social, though it is also life that is structured through and engulfed by brutal violence.” Enunciated life, in other words, alerts us to the audaciousness of Black breath that endures in the wake of continued anti-Blackness.