The Break, The Wake, The Hold, The Breath: A Curatorial Study of Subversive Transmissions in Contemporary African and Diasporic Art
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Break, The Wake, The Hold, The Breath explores the coded language of Black culture. Nigerian artist Abraham Oghobase, along with Canadian raised Trinidadian-Nigerian artist Jamilah Malika Abu-Bakare are in dialogue with archival records of Black subjectivity. Using photography, video, text and sound both artists use a fugitive language—verbal, visual and gestural—to express acts of refusal and exultation in relation to experiences of the Black diaspora to claim agency for the Black body. Their work highlights an inherent form of agency practiced within sites of control. The exhibition makes visible a lineage of refusal and a celebration of sovereignty over one’s body within the colonial state. The artists manifest corporeal knowledge held in tensed muscle, the hum of the voice, and the resonant qualities of image making that have travelled through generations, across oceans and by land, which are deeply felt within African and diasporic peoples.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".