Anaïs Duplan

Biography

Anaïs Duplan is a trans* writer, curator, and artist. He is the author of a forthcoming book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020), a poetry collection, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts, 2016), and a chapbook, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster House, 2017). He was a 2017–2019 joint Public Programs Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He is the founding curator for the Center for Afrofuturist Studies.

Photo by Walid Mohanna

See Work

POETRY / Winter 2019

Ephraim Asili, Forged Ways, 2010, 15 mins.

By Anaïs Duplan

The sound from some other kind of space or 
craft and foot           set in a downtown, US           shots
into windows
POETRY / Winter 2019

Leah Gilliam, Sapphire and the Slave Girl, 1995, 18 mins. 20 secs.

By Anaïs Duplan

tidal networks of black people cross
                                                   the road 
a Walgreens and pizzeria we 
follow as they walk
POETRY / Winter 2019

Ephraim Asili, American Hunger, 2013, 19 mins.

By Anaïs Duplan

outside the viewer,
black                         outside a mention                  of orishas and speech 
about freeing
POETRY / Winter 2019

Tony Cokes, 3#, 2001, 4 mins. 38 secs.

By Anaïs Duplan

                                     leaves a race behind
                 takes on the music                                      pop
                 its relation                                                    to capital
POETRY / Winter 2019

Tony Cokes, Black Celebration, 1988, 17 mins. 17 secs.

By Anaïs Duplan

                                    Universal Studios of riot 
                interspersed with whites holding
guns and carrying
people away.