The Question of Action
<p>Momus: The Podcast’s Season 07 finale features Tiana Reid, a Toronto-based critic and assistant professor of English at York University. Reid is a former editor at <i>The New Inquiry</i> and her writing has been featured in <i>Frieze</i>, <i>The Nation</i>, <i>The New York Review of Books</i>, and <i>The Paris Review</i>, among others. She reads from an early influence on her practice, Sylvia Wynter, whose text “Jonkonnu in Jamaica: Towards the Interpretation of the Folk Dance as a Cultural Process” (<i>Jamaica Journal</i>, June, 1970) thinks about “what art’s function is in unequal and oppressive societies and regimes.” In conversation with host Sky Goodden, Reid also discusses a forthcoming text for <i>Momus</i>, which focuses on an evacuated landscape in Toronto’s cultural institutions due to several curator dismissals, and moves Reid “to this question of action.”</p>
Host: Sky Goodden, Lauren Wetmore
Guest: Tiana Reid
Editor: Jacob Irish
Assistant Producer: Chris Andrews
Part of: Momus: The Podcast