TY - BOOK AU - Jenkins,Ulysses AU - Christovale,Erin AU - Onli,Meg ED - University of Pennsylvania. ED - Hammer Museum. TI - Ulysses Jenkins: without your interpretation SN - 9780884541554 AV - N6494.V53 U1 - 709.04 PY - 2021///] CY - Philadelphia, PA, Los Angeles, CA PB - Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Hammer Museum KW - Jenkins, Ulysses, KW - African American art KW - 20th century KW - Exhibitions KW - 21st century KW - Art, American KW - Video art KW - Performance art KW - History KW - Photography, Artistic N1 - Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, September 17-December 30, 2021, and the Hammer Museum, February 6-May 15, 2022; Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282); Discography: page 279; Videography: pages 279-280; A multicultural riot; Erin Christovale --; Doggereal life; Meg Onli --; After the prism: the many returns of Ulysses Jenkins; Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi --; Written and bitten: Ulysses Jenkins and the non-ontology of blackness; Aria Dean --; Refelections --; Transmissions: a roundtable conversation; Greg De Cuir Jr., Michael Boyce Gillespie, Chrissie Iles, and Alessandra Raengo --; Chronology; Liv Porte N2 - Since the 1970s, Ulysses Jenkins has interrogated questions of race and gender as they relate to ritual, history, and state power. From his work with Video Venice News, a Los Angeles media collective he founded in the early 1970s, to his involvement with the artists' group Studio Z (alongside figures such as David Hammons, Senga Nengudi, and Maren Hassinger), to his video and performance works, Jenkins explores how white supremacy is embedded in popular culture. Beginning as a painter and muralist, Jenkins was introduced to video just as the first consumer cameras were made available, and he quickly seized upon the technology as a means to broadcast critical depictions of multiculturalism. This catalog features an extensive portion of Jenkins' archive, early documentary films, photographs, and ephemera, as well as his video art ER -