Tavia Nyong’o

Tavia Nyong’o studies Black queer performance, speculative aesthetics, and affective historiography. He is the author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (2009) and Afro- Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (2018). He co-edited José Esteban Muñoz’s The Sense of Brown (2020) with Joshua Chambers-Letson. His current work spans the performative turn in museum practice, the re-examination of “race” and racism in performance and aesthetics, racial and sexual dissidence in art, and the self-conscious end of unaugmented thought. Nyong’o participated in Kwani Trust’s experimental five-day residency Everyone is Radicalizing in Performa 17.