[Minorcompositions] Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 13: Up Against the Real with Nadja Millner-Larsen

[Minor Compositions]

*Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 13: Up Against the Real with Nadja 
Millner-Larsen*
https://fireflyfrequencies.org/podcasts/minor-compositions

For this episode we talk with Nadja Millner-Larsen about her book Up 
/Against the Real. Black Mask from Art to Action/.

“With Up Against the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen offers the first 
comprehensive study of the group Black Mask and its acrimonious 
relationship to the New York art world of the 1960s. Cited as pioneers 
of now-common protest aesthetics, the group’s members employed 
incendiary modes of direct action against racism, colonialism, and the 
museum system. They shut down the Museum of Modern Art, fired blanks 
during a poetry reading, stormed the Pentagon in an antiwar protest, 
sprayed cow’s blood at the secretary of state, and dumped garbage into 
the fountain at Lincoln Center. Black Mask published a Dadaist broadside 
until 1968, when it changed its name to Up Against the Wall Motherfucker 
(after line in a poem by Amiri Baraka) and came to classify itself as “a 
street gang with analysis.” American activist Abbie Hoffman described 
the group as “the middle-class nightmare . . . an anti-media phenomenon 
simply because their name could not be printed.”

Bio: Nadja Millner-Larsen is visiting assistant professor in the 
Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement program at New York University.

Opening / outro music:
Refused, “Poetry Written in Gasoline” (from The New Noise Theology)
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