{"id":1515,"date":"2023-09-03T16:57:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T16:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2025-06-05T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T17:00:22","slug":"up-against-the-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1515","title":{"rendered":"Up Against the Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 13: Up Against the Real with Nadja Millner-Larsen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Up Against the Real with Nadja Millner-Larsen\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ad-Gj6iWfco?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For this episode we talk with Nadja Millner-Larsen about her book <i>Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action<\/i>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Up Against the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen offers the first comprehensive study of the group Black Mask and its acrimonious relationship to the New York art world of the 1960s. Cited as pioneers of now-common protest aesthetics, the group\u2019s members employed incendiary modes of direct action against racism, colonialism, and the museum system. They shut down the Museum of Modern Art, fired blanks during a poetry reading, stormed the Pentagon in an antiwar protest, sprayed cow\u2019s blood at the secretary of state, and dumped garbage into the fountain at Lincoln Center. Black Mask published a Dadaist broadside until 1968, when it changed its name to Up Against the Wall Motherfucker (after line in a poem by Amiri Baraka) and came to classify itself as \u201ca street gang with analysis.\u201d American activist Abbie Hoffman described the group as \u201cthe middle-class nightmare . . . an anti-media phenomenon simply because their name could not be printed.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bio: Nadja Millner-Larsen is visiting assistant professor in the Experimental Humanities &amp; Social Engagement program at New York University.<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/U\/bo187160692.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more information on the book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Opening \/ outro music: Refused, \u201cPoetry Written in Gasoline\u201d (from The New Noise Theology)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 13: Up Against the Real with Nadja Millner-Larsen For this episode we talk with Nadja Millner-Larsen about her book Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action.\u00a0 \u201cWith Up Against the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen offers the first comprehensive study of the group Black Mask and its acrimonious relationship to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}