This article analyzes a range of art and performance pieces that unearth and problematize the racist cultural underpinnings of surveillance. Drawing upon recent black studies scholarship, I probe the ways that contemporary creative works disrupt dominant signifying regimes that would position racialized surveillance/violence couplings as historical and exceptional rather than as foundational and routine. I argue that such aesthetic disruptions achieve creative vitality by holding in tension exclusionary regimes of white liberal personhood, on one hand, and articulations of hope that depart from those regimes, on the other. Whereas the gaze of surveillance seeks to silence and arrest subjects, creative expression can undermine authorized forms of visuality by focusing on survival and community that persist in spite of it.

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醒目的目光：反黑监视的艺术破坏

本文分析了一系列艺术和表演作品，这些作品发掘了监督的种族主义文化基础并对其提出了质疑。利用最近的黑人研究奖学金，我探讨了当代创意作品如何破坏占主导地位的象征性政权，这些政权将种族化的监视/暴力耦合定位为历史性和例外性，而不是基础性和常规性。我认为，这种审美破坏一方面通过保持白人自由主义者的紧张排斥制度，另一方面则是摆脱这些制度的希望的表达，从而获得创造力。监视的目光试图使主体沉默和拘捕，而创造性的表达却可以通过专注于生存和社区而破坏授权的视觉形式。