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Legacy Russell
BORN LEGACY. | ED & Chief Curator @thekitchen_nyc | #GlitchFeminism 📘✨ | OUT NOW📕BLACK MEME (2024) and GAY POMPEII (2025) | Becoming my avatar.
BLACK MEME in paperback has arrived 🙇🏾♀️✨🦋
🌈📸: Elizabeth Catlett
There is a Woman in Every Color, 1975
Color linoleum cut, screenprint, and woodcut on Arches paper, 22 1/4 in. x 29 15/16 in. (56.52 cm x 76.04 cm). Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund. BCMA Accession#: 2015.61.
📲 LINK IN BIO 👆🏾Now available via @genderfail in partnership with @pompeii_commitment and @curamagazine
🌋 My first chapbook of poems, the form that has helped me find a way to speak about the grief and possibility in this moment, the ribbons of hope folded into the depths of ache as we keep on keeping on.
📝 “Pompeii is a trans-temporal passage, a portal rooted in the natural catastrophe that brought destruction, preservation, and re-generation all at once. In such an in-between state, Pompeii escapes dualisms, many worlds coexist, and Russell’s approach to the digital space as a world-building dimension strongly resonates. Language, in Russell’s hands, becomes a tool not just for reflection but for advancement. It shakes the world awake. It makes space for new ones. Her work embodies the notion that we can interrogate societal constructs through imagination and foster new modes of understanding. This philosophy resonates with the ancient Pompeian practice of using public inscriptions to assert presence, share thoughts, express feelings, and influence communal narratives.” —Stella Bottai (@stellabottai)
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GENDERFAIL offers an option for folx to purchase one and donate one to BIPOC community if you have the capacity 🖤🙋🏽♀️
📲 LINK IN BIO 👆🏾Now available via @genderfail in partnership with @pompeii_commitment and @curamagazine
🌋 My first chapbook of poems, the form that has helped me find a way to speak about the grief and possibility in this moment, the ribbons of hope folded into the depths of ache as we keep on keeping on.
📝 “Pompeii is a trans-temporal passage, a portal rooted in the natural catastrophe that brought destruction, preservation, and re-generation all at once. In such an in-between state, Pompeii escapes dualisms, many worlds coexist, and Russell’s approach to the digital space as a world-building dimension strongly resonates. Language, in Russell’s hands, becomes a tool not just for reflection but for advancement. It shakes the world awake. It makes space for new ones. Her work embodies the notion that we can interrogate societal constructs through imagination and foster new modes of understanding. This philosophy resonates with the ancient Pompeian practice of using public inscriptions to assert presence, share thoughts, express feelings, and influence communal narratives.” —Stella Bottai (@stellabottai)
💥SUPPORT INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS💥
GENDERFAIL offers an option for folx to purchase one and donate one to BIPOC community if you have the capacity 🖤🙋🏽♀️
📲 LINK IN BIO 👆🏾Now available via @genderfail in partnership with @pompeii_commitment and @curamagazine
🌋 My first chapbook of poems, the form that has helped me find a way to speak about the grief and possibility in this moment, the ribbons of hope folded into the depths of ache as we keep on keeping on.
📝 “Pompeii is a trans-temporal passage, a portal rooted in the natural catastrophe that brought destruction, preservation, and re-generation all at once. In such an in-between state, Pompeii escapes dualisms, many worlds coexist, and Russell’s approach to the digital space as a world-building dimension strongly resonates. Language, in Russell’s hands, becomes a tool not just for reflection but for advancement. It shakes the world awake. It makes space for new ones. Her work embodies the notion that we can interrogate societal constructs through imagination and foster new modes of understanding. This philosophy resonates with the ancient Pompeian practice of using public inscriptions to assert presence, share thoughts, express feelings, and influence communal narratives.” —Stella Bottai (@stellabottai)
💥SUPPORT INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS💥
GENDERFAIL offers an option for folx to purchase one and donate one to BIPOC community if you have the capacity 🖤🙋🏽♀️
📲 LINK IN BIO 👆🏾Now available via @genderfail in partnership with @pompeii_commitment and @curamagazine
🌋 My first chapbook of poems, the form that has helped me find a way to speak about the grief and possibility in this moment, the ribbons of hope folded into the depths of ache as we keep on keeping on.
📝 “Pompeii is a trans-temporal passage, a portal rooted in the natural catastrophe that brought destruction, preservation, and re-generation all at once. In such an in-between state, Pompeii escapes dualisms, many worlds coexist, and Russell’s approach to the digital space as a world-building dimension strongly resonates. Language, in Russell’s hands, becomes a tool not just for reflection but for advancement. It shakes the world awake. It makes space for new ones. Her work embodies the notion that we can interrogate societal constructs through imagination and foster new modes of understanding. This philosophy resonates with the ancient Pompeian practice of using public inscriptions to assert presence, share thoughts, express feelings, and influence communal narratives.” —Stella Bottai (@stellabottai)
💥SUPPORT INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS💥
GENDERFAIL offers an option for folx to purchase one and donate one to BIPOC community if you have the capacity 🖤🙋🏽♀️
📲 LINK IN BIO 👆🏾Now available via @genderfail in partnership with @pompeii_commitment and @curamagazine
🌋 My first chapbook of poems, the form that has helped me find a way to speak about the grief and possibility in this moment, the ribbons of hope folded into the depths of ache as we keep on keeping on.
📝 “Pompeii is a trans-temporal passage, a portal rooted in the natural catastrophe that brought destruction, preservation, and re-generation all at once. In such an in-between state, Pompeii escapes dualisms, many worlds coexist, and Russell’s approach to the digital space as a world-building dimension strongly resonates. Language, in Russell’s hands, becomes a tool not just for reflection but for advancement. It shakes the world awake. It makes space for new ones. Her work embodies the notion that we can interrogate societal constructs through imagination and foster new modes of understanding. This philosophy resonates with the ancient Pompeian practice of using public inscriptions to assert presence, share thoughts, express feelings, and influence communal narratives.” —Stella Bottai (@stellabottai)
💥SUPPORT INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS💥
GENDERFAIL offers an option for folx to purchase one and donate one to BIPOC community if you have the capacity 🖤🙋🏽♀️
📲 LINK IN BIO 👆🏾Now available via @genderfail in partnership with @pompeii_commitment and @curamagazine
🌋 My first chapbook of poems, the form that has helped me find a way to speak about the grief and possibility in this moment, the ribbons of hope folded into the depths of ache as we keep on keeping on.
📝 “Pompeii is a trans-temporal passage, a portal rooted in the natural catastrophe that brought destruction, preservation, and re-generation all at once. In such an in-between state, Pompeii escapes dualisms, many worlds coexist, and Russell’s approach to the digital space as a world-building dimension strongly resonates. Language, in Russell’s hands, becomes a tool not just for reflection but for advancement. It shakes the world awake. It makes space for new ones. Her work embodies the notion that we can interrogate societal constructs through imagination and foster new modes of understanding. This philosophy resonates with the ancient Pompeian practice of using public inscriptions to assert presence, share thoughts, express feelings, and influence communal narratives.” —Stella Bottai (@stellabottai)
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GENDERFAIL offers an option for folx to purchase one and donate one to BIPOC community if you have the capacity 🖤🙋🏽♀️
Leadership, at its core, is about service—and I’m proud to share that I’ve been selected to join the Leaders USA cohort as part of the @obamafoundation#ObamaLeaders 2025-2026 program.
Over the coming months, I’ll be learning alongside a truly inspiring group of emerging leaders—people who are challenging systems, elevating communities, and reimagining what’s possible.
I believe deeply in the power of local action and collective leadership, and I’m honored to bring my work and my voice to this table.
Learn more about the cohort and the Leaders USA program via obama.org/leaders or following the link in bio above 👆🏾✨
📸: @andreaslaszlokonrath
Leadership, at its core, is about service—and I’m proud to share that I’ve been selected to join the Leaders USA cohort as part of the @obamafoundation#ObamaLeaders 2025-2026 program.
Over the coming months, I’ll be learning alongside a truly inspiring group of emerging leaders—people who are challenging systems, elevating communities, and reimagining what’s possible.
I believe deeply in the power of local action and collective leadership, and I’m honored to bring my work and my voice to this table.
Learn more about the cohort and the Leaders USA program via obama.org/leaders or following the link in bio above 👆🏾✨
📸: @andreaslaszlokonrath
In occasione della prima presentazione in Italia di “Black Meme. Decolonizzare il digitale”, pubblicato da wetlands in traduzione italiana, l’autrice Legacy Russell sarà in dialogo con Markus Reymann, co-direttore di TBA21.
📚 Presentazione del libro “Black Meme. Decolonizzare il digitale”
🗓️ Giovedì 7 maggio, 11:30 – 13:00
📍 Ocean Space, Venezia
Attraverso una genealogia di immagini, dalle cartoline dei linciaggi alle proteste di Selma, dal pugno di Tommie Smith al caso Rodney King, Russell mostra come la rappresentazione della nerezza abbia plasmato la cultura visiva contemporanea.
Senza il “black meme”, il digitale come lo conosciamo non esisterebbe.
Con questa pubblicazione Russell invita a ripensare radicalmente autorialità e viralità, dentro e fuori dal web.
🇬🇧 Evento in inglese
🎟️Partecipazione gratuita senza prenotazione necessaria
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On the occasion of the first presentation in Italy of "Black Meme. Decolonizzare il digitale", published by wetlands in Italian translation, author Legacy Russell will be in dialogue with Markus Reymann, co-director of TBA21.
📚 Book Presentation "Black Meme. Decolonizzare il digitale"
🗓️ Thursday, May 7, 11:30am – 1pm
📍 Ocean Space, Venice
Through a genealogy of images - from lynching postcards to the Selma protests, from Tommie Smith's salute to the Rodney King case - Russell shows how the representation of blackness has shaped contemporary visual culture.
Without the "black meme," the digital as we know it would not exist.
With this publication, Russell invites a radical rethinking of authorship and virality, both on and off the web.
🇬🇧 Event in English
🎟️ Free participation, no booking required
📸: by Deonté Lee
it was an absolute honor & a dream to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle 💐 as @prattinstitute School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar-In-Residence & as a part of Cultural Research & Practice Lab. these photos are from her *completely packed* lecture, student workshop, and coffee hour w/ our grad students. thank you to everyone who came out to each of the residency events. it has been a beautiful, special week ✨
Legacy, thank you so much for sharing your brilliance with us this week. for your thoughtfulness, care & attention to our students, faculty, and all who showed up to learn from you. beyond that — thank you for what your work & your presence means to other artists, writers, thinkers — and particularly Black, queer artists/writers like myself who have been deeply moved & forever inspired by the path you’ve set forth 💗
#LegacyRussell #BLACKMEME #GlitchFeminism #GayPompeii
it was an absolute honor & a dream to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle 💐 as @prattinstitute School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar-In-Residence & as a part of Cultural Research & Practice Lab. these photos are from her *completely packed* lecture, student workshop, and coffee hour w/ our grad students. thank you to everyone who came out to each of the residency events. it has been a beautiful, special week ✨
Legacy, thank you so much for sharing your brilliance with us this week. for your thoughtfulness, care & attention to our students, faculty, and all who showed up to learn from you. beyond that — thank you for what your work & your presence means to other artists, writers, thinkers — and particularly Black, queer artists/writers like myself who have been deeply moved & forever inspired by the path you’ve set forth 💗
#LegacyRussell #BLACKMEME #GlitchFeminism #GayPompeii
it was an absolute honor & a dream to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle 💐 as @prattinstitute School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar-In-Residence & as a part of Cultural Research & Practice Lab. these photos are from her *completely packed* lecture, student workshop, and coffee hour w/ our grad students. thank you to everyone who came out to each of the residency events. it has been a beautiful, special week ✨
Legacy, thank you so much for sharing your brilliance with us this week. for your thoughtfulness, care & attention to our students, faculty, and all who showed up to learn from you. beyond that — thank you for what your work & your presence means to other artists, writers, thinkers — and particularly Black, queer artists/writers like myself who have been deeply moved & forever inspired by the path you’ve set forth 💗
#LegacyRussell #BLACKMEME #GlitchFeminism #GayPompeii
it was an absolute honor & a dream to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle 💐 as @prattinstitute School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar-In-Residence & as a part of Cultural Research & Practice Lab. these photos are from her *completely packed* lecture, student workshop, and coffee hour w/ our grad students. thank you to everyone who came out to each of the residency events. it has been a beautiful, special week ✨
Legacy, thank you so much for sharing your brilliance with us this week. for your thoughtfulness, care & attention to our students, faculty, and all who showed up to learn from you. beyond that — thank you for what your work & your presence means to other artists, writers, thinkers — and particularly Black, queer artists/writers like myself who have been deeply moved & forever inspired by the path you’ve set forth 💗
#LegacyRussell #BLACKMEME #GlitchFeminism #GayPompeii
it was an absolute honor & a dream to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle 💐 as @prattinstitute School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar-In-Residence & as a part of Cultural Research & Practice Lab. these photos are from her *completely packed* lecture, student workshop, and coffee hour w/ our grad students. thank you to everyone who came out to each of the residency events. it has been a beautiful, special week ✨
Legacy, thank you so much for sharing your brilliance with us this week. for your thoughtfulness, care & attention to our students, faculty, and all who showed up to learn from you. beyond that — thank you for what your work & your presence means to other artists, writers, thinkers — and particularly Black, queer artists/writers like myself who have been deeply moved & forever inspired by the path you’ve set forth 💗
#LegacyRussell #BLACKMEME #GlitchFeminism #GayPompeii
it was an absolute honor & a dream to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle 💐 as @prattinstitute School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar-In-Residence & as a part of Cultural Research & Practice Lab. these photos are from her *completely packed* lecture, student workshop, and coffee hour w/ our grad students. thank you to everyone who came out to each of the residency events. it has been a beautiful, special week ✨
Legacy, thank you so much for sharing your brilliance with us this week. for your thoughtfulness, care & attention to our students, faculty, and all who showed up to learn from you. beyond that — thank you for what your work & your presence means to other artists, writers, thinkers — and particularly Black, queer artists/writers like myself who have been deeply moved & forever inspired by the path you’ve set forth 💗
#LegacyRussell #BLACKMEME #GlitchFeminism #GayPompeii
it was an absolute honor & a dream to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle 💐 as @prattinstitute School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar-In-Residence & as a part of Cultural Research & Practice Lab. these photos are from her *completely packed* lecture, student workshop, and coffee hour w/ our grad students. thank you to everyone who came out to each of the residency events. it has been a beautiful, special week ✨
Legacy, thank you so much for sharing your brilliance with us this week. for your thoughtfulness, care & attention to our students, faculty, and all who showed up to learn from you. beyond that — thank you for what your work & your presence means to other artists, writers, thinkers — and particularly Black, queer artists/writers like myself who have been deeply moved & forever inspired by the path you’ve set forth 💗
#LegacyRussell #BLACKMEME #GlitchFeminism #GayPompeii
it was an absolute honor & a dream to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle 💐 as @prattinstitute School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar-In-Residence & as a part of Cultural Research & Practice Lab. these photos are from her *completely packed* lecture, student workshop, and coffee hour w/ our grad students. thank you to everyone who came out to each of the residency events. it has been a beautiful, special week ✨
Legacy, thank you so much for sharing your brilliance with us this week. for your thoughtfulness, care & attention to our students, faculty, and all who showed up to learn from you. beyond that — thank you for what your work & your presence means to other artists, writers, thinkers — and particularly Black, queer artists/writers like myself who have been deeply moved & forever inspired by the path you’ve set forth 💗
#LegacyRussell #BLACKMEME #GlitchFeminism #GayPompeii
it was an absolute honor & a dream to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle 💐 as @prattinstitute School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar-In-Residence & as a part of Cultural Research & Practice Lab. these photos are from her *completely packed* lecture, student workshop, and coffee hour w/ our grad students. thank you to everyone who came out to each of the residency events. it has been a beautiful, special week ✨
Legacy, thank you so much for sharing your brilliance with us this week. for your thoughtfulness, care & attention to our students, faculty, and all who showed up to learn from you. beyond that — thank you for what your work & your presence means to other artists, writers, thinkers — and particularly Black, queer artists/writers like myself who have been deeply moved & forever inspired by the path you’ve set forth 💗
#LegacyRussell #BLACKMEME #GlitchFeminism #GayPompeii
it was an absolute honor & a dream to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle 💐 as @prattinstitute School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar-In-Residence & as a part of Cultural Research & Practice Lab. these photos are from her *completely packed* lecture, student workshop, and coffee hour w/ our grad students. thank you to everyone who came out to each of the residency events. it has been a beautiful, special week ✨
Legacy, thank you so much for sharing your brilliance with us this week. for your thoughtfulness, care & attention to our students, faculty, and all who showed up to learn from you. beyond that — thank you for what your work & your presence means to other artists, writers, thinkers — and particularly Black, queer artists/writers like myself who have been deeply moved & forever inspired by the path you’ve set forth 💗
#LegacyRussell #BLACKMEME #GlitchFeminism #GayPompeii
it was an absolute honor & a dream to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle 💐 as @prattinstitute School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar-In-Residence & as a part of Cultural Research & Practice Lab. these photos are from her *completely packed* lecture, student workshop, and coffee hour w/ our grad students. thank you to everyone who came out to each of the residency events. it has been a beautiful, special week ✨
Legacy, thank you so much for sharing your brilliance with us this week. for your thoughtfulness, care & attention to our students, faculty, and all who showed up to learn from you. beyond that — thank you for what your work & your presence means to other artists, writers, thinkers — and particularly Black, queer artists/writers like myself who have been deeply moved & forever inspired by the path you’ve set forth 💗
#LegacyRussell #BLACKMEME #GlitchFeminism #GayPompeii
it was an absolute honor & a dream to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle 💐 as @prattinstitute School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar-In-Residence & as a part of Cultural Research & Practice Lab. these photos are from her *completely packed* lecture, student workshop, and coffee hour w/ our grad students. thank you to everyone who came out to each of the residency events. it has been a beautiful, special week ✨
Legacy, thank you so much for sharing your brilliance with us this week. for your thoughtfulness, care & attention to our students, faculty, and all who showed up to learn from you. beyond that — thank you for what your work & your presence means to other artists, writers, thinkers — and particularly Black, queer artists/writers like myself who have been deeply moved & forever inspired by the path you’ve set forth 💗
#LegacyRussell #BLACKMEME #GlitchFeminism #GayPompeii
it was an absolute honor & a dream to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle 💐 as @prattinstitute School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar-In-Residence & as a part of Cultural Research & Practice Lab. these photos are from her *completely packed* lecture, student workshop, and coffee hour w/ our grad students. thank you to everyone who came out to each of the residency events. it has been a beautiful, special week ✨
Legacy, thank you so much for sharing your brilliance with us this week. for your thoughtfulness, care & attention to our students, faculty, and all who showed up to learn from you. beyond that — thank you for what your work & your presence means to other artists, writers, thinkers — and particularly Black, queer artists/writers like myself who have been deeply moved & forever inspired by the path you’ve set forth 💗
#LegacyRussell #BLACKMEME #GlitchFeminism #GayPompeii
it was an absolute honor & a dream to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle 💐 as @prattinstitute School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar-In-Residence & as a part of Cultural Research & Practice Lab. these photos are from her *completely packed* lecture, student workshop, and coffee hour w/ our grad students. thank you to everyone who came out to each of the residency events. it has been a beautiful, special week ✨
Legacy, thank you so much for sharing your brilliance with us this week. for your thoughtfulness, care & attention to our students, faculty, and all who showed up to learn from you. beyond that — thank you for what your work & your presence means to other artists, writers, thinkers — and particularly Black, queer artists/writers like myself who have been deeply moved & forever inspired by the path you’ve set forth 💗
#LegacyRussell #BLACKMEME #GlitchFeminism #GayPompeii
it was an absolute honor & a dream to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle 💐 as @prattinstitute School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar-In-Residence & as a part of Cultural Research & Practice Lab. these photos are from her *completely packed* lecture, student workshop, and coffee hour w/ our grad students. thank you to everyone who came out to each of the residency events. it has been a beautiful, special week ✨
Legacy, thank you so much for sharing your brilliance with us this week. for your thoughtfulness, care & attention to our students, faculty, and all who showed up to learn from you. beyond that — thank you for what your work & your presence means to other artists, writers, thinkers — and particularly Black, queer artists/writers like myself who have been deeply moved & forever inspired by the path you’ve set forth 💗
#LegacyRussell #BLACKMEME #GlitchFeminism #GayPompeii
It was such a pleasure to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle at the annual Otto Wagner Lecture organised by the Institute for Art and Architecture. As professors of the Gender & Space Studio @petrahlavackova321 and @nicole__sabella we were lucky to moderate the event together with our amazing students. Diving into the Black Meme book was an enriching experience, especially when it comes to topics like the impact of Blackness, Black life, and Black social death on contemporary conceptions of virality, critical whiteness or white institutions. And to discuss all this in relation to accessibility and inclusive spaces. Thank you, Legacy for your important work 🩷
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Students of Gender & Space Studio: Arundhati Arun, Mahaut Beyret, Sara Hawy, Bharvi Kankaria, Nora Maleh, Rogin Mougoui, Alex Salem, Kora Witt
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Organizational team: Luciano Parodi, Christina Condak and Gabriele Mayer
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Photo: Anna-Lena Helmer
#legacyrussell #blackmeme
It was such a pleasure to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle at the annual Otto Wagner Lecture organised by the Institute for Art and Architecture. As professors of the Gender & Space Studio @petrahlavackova321 and @nicole__sabella we were lucky to moderate the event together with our amazing students. Diving into the Black Meme book was an enriching experience, especially when it comes to topics like the impact of Blackness, Black life, and Black social death on contemporary conceptions of virality, critical whiteness or white institutions. And to discuss all this in relation to accessibility and inclusive spaces. Thank you, Legacy for your important work 🩷
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Students of Gender & Space Studio: Arundhati Arun, Mahaut Beyret, Sara Hawy, Bharvi Kankaria, Nora Maleh, Rogin Mougoui, Alex Salem, Kora Witt
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Organizational team: Luciano Parodi, Christina Condak and Gabriele Mayer
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Photo: Anna-Lena Helmer
#legacyrussell #blackmeme
It was such a pleasure to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle at the annual Otto Wagner Lecture organised by the Institute for Art and Architecture. As professors of the Gender & Space Studio @petrahlavackova321 and @nicole__sabella we were lucky to moderate the event together with our amazing students. Diving into the Black Meme book was an enriching experience, especially when it comes to topics like the impact of Blackness, Black life, and Black social death on contemporary conceptions of virality, critical whiteness or white institutions. And to discuss all this in relation to accessibility and inclusive spaces. Thank you, Legacy for your important work 🩷
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Students of Gender & Space Studio: Arundhati Arun, Mahaut Beyret, Sara Hawy, Bharvi Kankaria, Nora Maleh, Rogin Mougoui, Alex Salem, Kora Witt
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Organizational team: Luciano Parodi, Christina Condak and Gabriele Mayer
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Photo: Anna-Lena Helmer
#legacyrussell #blackmeme
It was such a pleasure to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle at the annual Otto Wagner Lecture organised by the Institute for Art and Architecture. As professors of the Gender & Space Studio @petrahlavackova321 and @nicole__sabella we were lucky to moderate the event together with our amazing students. Diving into the Black Meme book was an enriching experience, especially when it comes to topics like the impact of Blackness, Black life, and Black social death on contemporary conceptions of virality, critical whiteness or white institutions. And to discuss all this in relation to accessibility and inclusive spaces. Thank you, Legacy for your important work 🩷
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Students of Gender & Space Studio: Arundhati Arun, Mahaut Beyret, Sara Hawy, Bharvi Kankaria, Nora Maleh, Rogin Mougoui, Alex Salem, Kora Witt
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Organizational team: Luciano Parodi, Christina Condak and Gabriele Mayer
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Photo: Anna-Lena Helmer
#legacyrussell #blackmeme
It was such a pleasure to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle at the annual Otto Wagner Lecture organised by the Institute for Art and Architecture. As professors of the Gender & Space Studio @petrahlavackova321 and @nicole__sabella we were lucky to moderate the event together with our amazing students. Diving into the Black Meme book was an enriching experience, especially when it comes to topics like the impact of Blackness, Black life, and Black social death on contemporary conceptions of virality, critical whiteness or white institutions. And to discuss all this in relation to accessibility and inclusive spaces. Thank you, Legacy for your important work 🩷
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Students of Gender & Space Studio: Arundhati Arun, Mahaut Beyret, Sara Hawy, Bharvi Kankaria, Nora Maleh, Rogin Mougoui, Alex Salem, Kora Witt
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Organizational team: Luciano Parodi, Christina Condak and Gabriele Mayer
---
Photo: Anna-Lena Helmer
#legacyrussell #blackmeme
It was such a pleasure to host Legacy Russell @ellerustle at the annual Otto Wagner Lecture organised by the Institute for Art and Architecture. As professors of the Gender & Space Studio @petrahlavackova321 and @nicole__sabella we were lucky to moderate the event together with our amazing students. Diving into the Black Meme book was an enriching experience, especially when it comes to topics like the impact of Blackness, Black life, and Black social death on contemporary conceptions of virality, critical whiteness or white institutions. And to discuss all this in relation to accessibility and inclusive spaces. Thank you, Legacy for your important work 🩷
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Students of Gender & Space Studio: Arundhati Arun, Mahaut Beyret, Sara Hawy, Bharvi Kankaria, Nora Maleh, Rogin Mougoui, Alex Salem, Kora Witt
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Organizational team: Luciano Parodi, Christina Condak and Gabriele Mayer
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Photo: Anna-Lena Helmer
#legacyrussell #blackmeme
Partilhamos o registo da conferência BLACK MEME, que Legacy Russell apresentou ontem na Escola das Artes.
Nesta conferência, a autora e curadora explorou o «meme» tal como se reflete na cultura visual negra desde 1900 até ao presente, explorando tanto arquivos como meios de comunicação contemporâneos.
🌌 O programa Art + Tech x Cosmos = continua até maio, com concertos, conferências, exposições e performances na Escola das Artes. #legacyrussell
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We are sharing the recording of the BLACK MEME talk, which Legacy Russell gave yesterday at the School of Arts.
In this talk, the author and curator explored the ‘meme’ as reflected in Black visual culture from 1900 to the present day, drawing on both archives and contemporary media.
🌌 The Art + Tech x Cosmos = programme continues until May, with concerts, talks, exhibitions and performances at the School of Arts. #legacyrussell
🪩Celebrating my friend @edyanganiose who has made history @macba_barcelona with her exhibition “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica” on view for just a few more weeks.
📌This show does such necessary work to bring together a Panafrican visual culture and track a lineage that quite literally has transformed the world. What a breathtaking and groundbreaking contribution, an example of where rigor in scholarship and real and true learning and engagement at every level can be perfectly entangled. This exhibition as you move through each room builds on its ideas and thesis so gorgeously, its artists remapping and reimagining Black space in quantum registers. How I gasped and cheered!
✨What a privilege it continues to be to learn from, and be in exchange with you, sister Elvira.
📸Beginning with a transport into this gorgeous exhibitionbut swipe to see a recent snap following a beautiful symposium @fundaciomiro with friends old and new, and in the final image myself and Elvira in discussion @macba_barcelona in spring 2023 when I went to Barcelona as part of my @ccl_curators fellowship and got to follow Elvira around for a week 🥰 We ended up doing a fantastic talk together and every word she and I spoke I could feel Ernie moving around and listening from my belly ♾️
🪩Celebrating my friend @edyanganiose who has made history @macba_barcelona with her exhibition “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica” on view for just a few more weeks.
📌This show does such necessary work to bring together a Panafrican visual culture and track a lineage that quite literally has transformed the world. What a breathtaking and groundbreaking contribution, an example of where rigor in scholarship and real and true learning and engagement at every level can be perfectly entangled. This exhibition as you move through each room builds on its ideas and thesis so gorgeously, its artists remapping and reimagining Black space in quantum registers. How I gasped and cheered!
✨What a privilege it continues to be to learn from, and be in exchange with you, sister Elvira.
📸Beginning with a transport into this gorgeous exhibitionbut swipe to see a recent snap following a beautiful symposium @fundaciomiro with friends old and new, and in the final image myself and Elvira in discussion @macba_barcelona in spring 2023 when I went to Barcelona as part of my @ccl_curators fellowship and got to follow Elvira around for a week 🥰 We ended up doing a fantastic talk together and every word she and I spoke I could feel Ernie moving around and listening from my belly ♾️
🪩Celebrating my friend @edyanganiose who has made history @macba_barcelona with her exhibition “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica” on view for just a few more weeks.
📌This show does such necessary work to bring together a Panafrican visual culture and track a lineage that quite literally has transformed the world. What a breathtaking and groundbreaking contribution, an example of where rigor in scholarship and real and true learning and engagement at every level can be perfectly entangled. This exhibition as you move through each room builds on its ideas and thesis so gorgeously, its artists remapping and reimagining Black space in quantum registers. How I gasped and cheered!
✨What a privilege it continues to be to learn from, and be in exchange with you, sister Elvira.
📸Beginning with a transport into this gorgeous exhibitionbut swipe to see a recent snap following a beautiful symposium @fundaciomiro with friends old and new, and in the final image myself and Elvira in discussion @macba_barcelona in spring 2023 when I went to Barcelona as part of my @ccl_curators fellowship and got to follow Elvira around for a week 🥰 We ended up doing a fantastic talk together and every word she and I spoke I could feel Ernie moving around and listening from my belly ♾️
🪩Celebrating my friend @edyanganiose who has made history @macba_barcelona with her exhibition “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica” on view for just a few more weeks.
📌This show does such necessary work to bring together a Panafrican visual culture and track a lineage that quite literally has transformed the world. What a breathtaking and groundbreaking contribution, an example of where rigor in scholarship and real and true learning and engagement at every level can be perfectly entangled. This exhibition as you move through each room builds on its ideas and thesis so gorgeously, its artists remapping and reimagining Black space in quantum registers. How I gasped and cheered!
✨What a privilege it continues to be to learn from, and be in exchange with you, sister Elvira.
📸Beginning with a transport into this gorgeous exhibitionbut swipe to see a recent snap following a beautiful symposium @fundaciomiro with friends old and new, and in the final image myself and Elvira in discussion @macba_barcelona in spring 2023 when I went to Barcelona as part of my @ccl_curators fellowship and got to follow Elvira around for a week 🥰 We ended up doing a fantastic talk together and every word she and I spoke I could feel Ernie moving around and listening from my belly ♾️
@prattinstitute School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Cultural Research & Practice Lab, founded by myself and @daliazjoon are honored to invite you to BLACK MEME, a lecture by 2026 SLAS Scholar-in-Residence, Legacy Russell ✨
This talk is open to the public. Please register at the link in bio.
Legacy Russell is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Executive Director & Chief Curator of the experimental arts institution The Kitchen. Her academic, curatorial, and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry, and new media ritual. She is the award-winning author of the groundbreaking Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (Verso Books, 2020) and her critically acclaimed second book BLACK MEME (Verso Books, 2024) which was shortlisted for the 2024 The National Book Critics Circle Award.
In BLACK MEME, Legacy Russell explores the “meme” as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present, mining both archival and contemporary media.
Russell argues that without the contributions of Black people, digital culture would not exist in its current form. These meditations include the circulation of lynching postcards; why a mother allowed JET magazine to publish a picture of her dead son, Emmett Till; and how the televised broadcast of protesters in Selma changed the debate on civil rights. Questions of the media representation of Blackness come to the fore as Russell considers how citizen-recorded footage of the LAPD beating Rodney King became the first viral video. Why the Anita Hill hearings shed light on the media’s creation of the Black icon. The ownership of Black imagery and death is considered in the story of Tamara Lanier’s fight to reclaim the daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors from Harvard. Meanwhile the live broadcast on Facebook of the murder of Philando Castile by the police after he was stopped for a broken taillight forces us to bear witness to the persistent legacy of the Black meme. Through imagery, memory, and technology, BLACK MEME shows us how images of Blackness have always been central to our understanding of the modern world.
@prattinstitute School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Cultural Research & Practice Lab, founded by myself and @daliazjoon are honored to invite you to BLACK MEME, a lecture by 2026 SLAS Scholar-in-Residence, Legacy Russell ✨
This talk is open to the public. Please register at the link in bio.
Legacy Russell is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Executive Director & Chief Curator of the experimental arts institution The Kitchen. Her academic, curatorial, and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry, and new media ritual. She is the award-winning author of the groundbreaking Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (Verso Books, 2020) and her critically acclaimed second book BLACK MEME (Verso Books, 2024) which was shortlisted for the 2024 The National Book Critics Circle Award.
In BLACK MEME, Legacy Russell explores the “meme” as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present, mining both archival and contemporary media.
Russell argues that without the contributions of Black people, digital culture would not exist in its current form. These meditations include the circulation of lynching postcards; why a mother allowed JET magazine to publish a picture of her dead son, Emmett Till; and how the televised broadcast of protesters in Selma changed the debate on civil rights. Questions of the media representation of Blackness come to the fore as Russell considers how citizen-recorded footage of the LAPD beating Rodney King became the first viral video. Why the Anita Hill hearings shed light on the media’s creation of the Black icon. The ownership of Black imagery and death is considered in the story of Tamara Lanier’s fight to reclaim the daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors from Harvard. Meanwhile the live broadcast on Facebook of the murder of Philando Castile by the police after he was stopped for a broken taillight forces us to bear witness to the persistent legacy of the Black meme. Through imagery, memory, and technology, BLACK MEME shows us how images of Blackness have always been central to our understanding of the modern world.
ART + TECH x COSMOS =
Series of Talks, Performances, Exhibitions, Concerts
LEGACY RUSSELL: BLACK MEME Thursday 19 March 2026
Porto @escoladasartescatolica
The third event in the series welcomes Legacy Russell, a New York based curator and writer, the Executive Director & Chief Curator of the experimental arts institution The Kitchen, and award winning author of books Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (Verso Books, 2020) and BLACK MEME (Verso Books, 2024). Her academic, curatorial, and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry, and new media ritual.
The keynote presentation - entitled BLACK MEME - explores the construct, culture, and material of the “meme” as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to present day. Mining both archival and contemporary media, the talk reflects on the impact of blackness, Black life, and Black social death on contemporary conceptions of virality borne in the age of the Internet, to argue that without the contributions of Black people, digital culture would not exist in its current form.
Russell curated numerous exhibitions, most recently Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art - a multi-sited exhibition exploring and redefining the history of “Black data,” centering and celebrating contributions by artists of African descent to the rapidly advancing field of new media art and digital practice (2024-25, The Kitchen, the Schomburg Center and MOCAD).
ART + TECH x COSMOS =is curated by Joasia Krysa with Nuno Crespo, Daniel Ribas, José Alberto Gomes.
@ellerustle @_nuno_crespo @dribas
ART + TECH x COSMOS =
Series of Talks, Performances, Exhibitions, Concerts
LEGACY RUSSELL: BLACK MEME Thursday 19 March 2026
Porto @escoladasartescatolica
The third event in the series welcomes Legacy Russell, a New York based curator and writer, the Executive Director & Chief Curator of the experimental arts institution The Kitchen, and award winning author of books Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (Verso Books, 2020) and BLACK MEME (Verso Books, 2024). Her academic, curatorial, and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry, and new media ritual.
The keynote presentation - entitled BLACK MEME - explores the construct, culture, and material of the “meme” as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to present day. Mining both archival and contemporary media, the talk reflects on the impact of blackness, Black life, and Black social death on contemporary conceptions of virality borne in the age of the Internet, to argue that without the contributions of Black people, digital culture would not exist in its current form.
Russell curated numerous exhibitions, most recently Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art - a multi-sited exhibition exploring and redefining the history of “Black data,” centering and celebrating contributions by artists of African descent to the rapidly advancing field of new media art and digital practice (2024-25, The Kitchen, the Schomburg Center and MOCAD).
ART + TECH x COSMOS =is curated by Joasia Krysa with Nuno Crespo, Daniel Ribas, José Alberto Gomes.
@ellerustle @_nuno_crespo @dribas
You are cordially invited to Legacy Russell’s @ellerustle lecture BLACK MEME
on
Monday, March 23, 2026,
7 PM
at Semperdepot, EG Nord (ground floor)
Lehargasse 8
https://maps.app.goo.gl/LNSeUv6X9G61eV5S9
Organised by the Institute for Art and Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Moderation & Q&A: @petrahlavackova321, @nicole__sabella and students from@gender_space_studio
Black Meme explores the impact of Blackness, Black life, and Black social death on contemporary conceptions of virality born in the age of the Internet.
Legacy Russell is a curator and writer.
Born and raised in New York City, she is the Executive Director & Chief Curator of the experimental arts institution The Kitchen.
Her academic, curatorial, and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry, and new media ritual.
https://www.legacyrussell.com/
Accessibility info: wheelchair-accessible
Please spread among people who could be interested.
Thanks and looking forward to seeing you there!
#blackmeme #legacyrussell
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