ABOUT ME
Azsaneé Truss, PhD is a Thinking Artist and scholar whose practice moves fluidly between the archive and the speculative. Broadly speaking, she engages her scholarly and artistic practices to understand Black cultural production as sites of theory, resistance, and world-making around the globe. As the Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Experimental Ethnography, she works across text, film, sound, and collage to explore knowledges that can be felt, not just read. She collaborates with artists, scholars, and cultural workers to build work that lives inside and outside the academy.
I choose to call myself a Thinking Artist because I see my art as thought, thinking as an art, and my scholarly and artistic practices as inextricable. My work blends research, storytelling, and aesthetic experimentation to challenge dominant narratives and imagine new possibilities. I create work that critiques the world as it is while envisioning it as it could be.