WEEK 2: QUESTIONBRIDGE - July 26th

WEEK 2: Question Bridge: Black Males - opened July 26th, the interview recording session happened July 27th from 12 - 4pm  

Photos of some of the men that participated in QB in LeimertQuestion Bridge: Black Males is a project that explores critically challenging issues within the African American male community by instigating a trans-media conversation among black men across the geographic, economic, generational, educational, and social strata of American society.  Question Bridge provides a safe setting for necessary, honest expression and healing dialogue on themes that divide, unite, and puzzle black males today in the United States.  

Question Bridge originated in 1996, when artist Chris Johnson was looking for a way to use new media art to generate a meaningful conversation around class and generational divisions within San Diego's African American community.  Mediated through the lens of a video camera, ten members of the black community were provided a format to openly express their deeply felt beliefs and values through candid question and answer exchanges. None of the questions or answers were prompted.  Over the course of four years, Johnson, along with Hank Willis Thomas, Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair, have traveled the nation collecting questions and answers from over 150 Black men in eight cities (New York, Chicago, Oakland, San Francisco, Birmingham, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Philadelphia) that comprise a video catalog of 1,500 exchanges.  By focusing on exchanges within this extended community, surprising insights and new possibilities for witnessing our common humanity emerge. 

You can see the recorded questions and answers that took place in our upstairs loft on the QB site - HEAR WHAT LEIMERT HAD TO SAY You can also visit their website to create your own profile and start submitting videos of your own, additionally the website will also let you know how to download the app QB to your phone or tablet.