harriet c brown Author

Harriet Brown was the name Greta Garbo adopted when she withdrew from cinema and retreated to her New York apartment in the 1940s. The name has since been taken up by women’s rights and anti-racist activists, and others who initiate change, to whom we pay tribute. Following the conventions of documenta fifteen, ruangrupa and consonni, we write these names in lower case, including harriet c. brown. Here, the name refers to a collective entity formed by the bodies of consonni and members of the documenta fifteen artistic team, a shared, literary presence. harriet c. brown is a lumbung body, reclaimed as a practice of community to shape the present and give it textual form.