7 minutes and 46 Seconds: Strategic Response and Contemporary Collecting

Online conversation with Barby Asante and Aaron Bryant Curator of Photography, Visual Culture, and Contemporary History, Smithsonian. The title of this talk 7 minutes and 46 Seconds makes reference to the time it took George Floyd to die from a chokehold by a U.S law enforcement on the 25th May 2020. This conversation explored responses by museums, artists and others to these events through the collecting and archiving of the events that happened after the killing.