THE SMART TRICK OF KEYBOARD PLAYER THAT NOBODY IS DISCUSSING

By turns evoking the spectral scene of Heinrich von Kleist’s marionette theatre and confronting what Tavia Nyong’o refers to given that the “failed humor” with the ceramic figurine’s “racist kitsch,” Organ Player aestheticizes the intertwined marriage among race, subjectivity, and grace. Since the doll’s human body composes itself,