Ayanna Dozier

Apr 1, 2024 | brooklynrail.org | Ayanna Dozier

Film Thirty years on, Fresh Kill feels eerily prescient, revealing concerns and warnings that remain unaddressed. Directed by Shu Lea Cheang, written by Jessica HagedornFresh Kill(Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University, 1994) How do you live at the end of the world? What does living look like juggling multiple traumas, loss, systemic injustice, insurmountable grief, and the never-ending possibility, if not hope, for love?

Nov 28, 2023 | screenslate.com | Ayanna Dozier

The kids, and their parents, don’t like sex these days. This crusade against public sex, as seen in the conservative influence across politics and media culture, has ushered in the return of the “save the children,” campaign, wherein the depiction of sex itself, and especially of sexual difference, is seen as harmful to the children and the public at large. Sex workers and queer and trans people are the primary targets of these campaigns and are framed as driving moral corruption in society.

Sep 22, 2023 | artsy.net | Ayanna Dozier

ArtAyanna DozierInstallation view, work by Igshaan Adams at the 35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible © Levi Fanan / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo. Memory burns. This is the overarching feeling at the 35th edition of the São Paulo Bienal, where collective memory is represented as both an endlessly fading and reemerging encounter within each artwork.

Aug 10, 2023 | screenslate.com | Ayanna Dozier

It’s strike girl summer in the entertainment industry. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) are on strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). While a myriad of issues related to equitable compensation of labor are on the negotiating table, the main causal factors are related to the devaluation of labor by streaming platforms.

Jul 31, 2023 | artsy.net | Ayanna Dozier

ArtAyanna Dozier“Live for Now,” commercial for Pepsi, 2017. © Pepsi Global, via YouTube. The Australian siblings and filmmaking duo Dan and Dominique Angeloro, known as Soda Jerk, created the film Hello Dankness (2023) earlier this year, a work composed entirely of samples from other films and advertisements to narrate the sociopolitical landscape of the United States from 2016 to 2021.