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 “unsuccessful humor” on the ceramic figurine’s “racist kitsch,” Organ Player aestheticizes the intertwined relationship among race, subjectivity, and grace. As the doll’s physique composes alone, at wha