“Death in Tivoli”: Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, Fugitive Sociality, and the Body of Photographic Evidence

Examining photographs, video footage and what remains fugitive in these sources, Northwestern Professor of Art History Krista Thompson speculates on why the hunt for a single fugitive led to the detainment, containment and killing of so many. 

This presentation is part of a larger book project, which explores how fugitives and the photographic representations surrounding them in Jamaica informed a fugitive sociality, opening up social, political and representational possibilities for those seeking to reimagine the existing parameters of the colonial and postcolonial state.

This Art History Lecture Series event is co-presented by the Art Galleries at Black Studies and the Graduate Student Art History Association in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin.