As part of the exhibition For Real For Real, Kevin Quashie will present a talk titled In Praise of Mere Beauty, followed by a conversation with Claudia Rankine.

Kevin Quashie is Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in the English Department at Brown University. He teaches black cultural and literary studies, with particular interests in aesthetics, criticism, and poetics. He is the author or editor of four books, most recently The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture (2012) and Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (2021). Black Aliveness has been awarded two prizes: the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association (2022) and the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism from the Poetry Foundation (2022).

daadgalerie, Oranienstraße 161, Berlin

Free admission