NOT KNOWN FACTUAL STATEMENTS ABOUT COMMUNITY FOR ORGAN PLAYER

By turns evoking the spectral scene of Heinrich von Kleist’s marionette theatre and confronting what Tavia Nyong’o refers to as the “failed humor” of the ceramic figurine’s “racist kitsch,” Organ Player aestheticizes the intertwined relationship between race, subjectivity, and grace. As the doll’s human body composes by itself, at w