Dissolve: Fade to Dinge

Dissolve: Fade to Dinge

1 Dissolve

“...instead posed a more
alert question: what does
it mean to ask what
identity is?”
—David Gerstner,
“Riggs,” Queer Pollen

Poetry & cinema—
In many ways similar.

Marlon Riggs sayz—
That he used mainly poets.

To put together his film
“Tongues Untied.”
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2 Fade

“Riggs discovered that in
generating an epistemology
of identity rather than
producing its parameters…”
—David Gerstner,
“Riggs,” Queer Pollen

Both poetry & cinema—
Imperfect in the sense that

Cross-pollination of—
Cultures never ends…

There’s dissolve after—
Dissolve after dissolve….
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3 Dissolve

“he ably directed his
career-long work toward
the intricate cross-pollination
of cultures that ultimately
resisted a definition of
identity once and for all.”
—David Gerstner,
“Riggs,” Queer Pollen

A self-portrait is instead—
“Communal selfhood”

Culture continuously—
Dissolving categories

Morphing segueing—
Cinematic detritus wake…
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4 Dinge

“His self-portrait displays—
the work of life & death so
as to experientially render
the affect that takes place
in its own wake.”
—David Gerstner,
“Riggs,” Queer Pollen

Harlem Renaissance—
Niggeratti Mansion dissolves…

Nugent, Baldwin, Riggs—
“Tongues Untied” fades away…

What does it mean to ask—
Am I a dinge queen?