James Baldwin - No Name In The Street

James Baldwin - No Name In The Street

James Baldwin - No Name In The Street

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11 years ago
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9 years ago

There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”—Octavia E. Butler


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9 years ago

Sept 2. #64bitsandmalachite

8 years ago

The fact is, I don’t think SF can be really utopian. I mean utopia presupposes a pretty static, unchanging, and rather tyrannical world. You know: ‘I know the best way to live, and I’m going to tell you how to do it, and if you dare do anything else…’

Samuel R. Delany, interviewed in 1986, “On Triton and other matters” (via notesonresistance)

9 years ago

The Powers of Mourning

"I have tried to suggest that precarity is the condition against which several new social movements struggle. Such movements do not seek to overcome interdependency or even vulnerability as they struggle against precarity; rather, they seek to produce the conditions under which vulnerability and interdependency become liveable. This is a politics in which performative action takes bodily and plural form, drawing critical attention to the conditions of bodily survival, persistence and flourishing within the framework of radical democracy. If I am to lead a good life, it will be a life lived with others, a live that is no life without those others. I will not lose this I that I am; whoever I am will be transformed by my connections with others, since my dependency on another, and my dependability, are necessary in order to live and to live well. Our shared exposure to precarity is but one ground of our potential equality and our reciprocal obligations to produce together conditions of liveable life. In avowing the need we have for one another, we avow as well basic principles that inform the social, democratic conditions of what we might still call ‘the good life’. These are critical conditions of democratic life in the sense that they are part of an ongoing crisis, but also because they belong to a form of thinking and acting that responds to the urgencies of our time."

"Can one lead a good life in a bad life?" Judith Butler, Adorno Prize Lecture.


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9 years ago
Ornette Coleman And Don Cherry In 1959.

Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry in 1959.

Credit: Lee Friedlander


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10 years ago

Une foire internationale pour célébrer l’art africain contemporain

Une Foire Internationale Pour Célébrer L’art Africain Contemporain
Une Foire Internationale Pour Célébrer L’art Africain Contemporain

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1:54 (1 continent : 54 pays) la foire d’art africain contemporain qui s’est tenue à Londres du 15 au 19 octobre, vient tout juste de fermer ses portes. Elle a regroupé 27 galeries triées sur le volet et plus d’une centaine d’artistes. Lancée en 2013 par Touria El Glaoui, cette plateforme a pour ambition d’accompagner l’entrée des artistes africains sur le marché de l’art international.

Mais pas seulement. A part égale, s’est tenue une série de rencontres, débats, projections, conférences, conçue par la commissaire Koyo Kouoh avec pour objectif de mettre en perspective la production artistique africaine et ses ramifications car « l’Afrique ne se limite pas à sa géographie, c’est un état d’esprit » précise la commissaire.

Cet événement est un immense succès au moment même ou l'on aurait pu penser la notion d'art africain contemporain éculée.

Il est dû à « l’énergie et au professionnalisme de l’équipe qui a une connaissance fine et intelligente du travail des artistes, contrairement à certains organisateurs de foires internationales. C’est une équipe jeune, dynamique qui a su créer un climat de partage et de solidarité, on s’échange les informations, tout le monde a envie que ça marche », confie un galeriste.

Pour Marcia Kure, artiste nigériane vivant à New York, « les artistes qui y participent ont le sentiment d’avoir l’occasion d’écrire leur « propre » histoire de l’intérieur, de se rencontrer et de se parler ».

Enfin, l’événement n’aurait surement pas eu cette ampleur sans d’une part la participation de mécènes au premier rang desquels on compte le célèbre jeune collectionneur angolais Sindika Dokolo, et d’autre part, l’écho médiatique et le succès public (collectionneurs, institutions, étudiants et grand public très présents) dont à fait l’objet 1:54.

Une Foire Internationale Pour Célébrer L’art Africain Contemporain
Une Foire Internationale Pour Célébrer L’art Africain Contemporain

Ibrahim Mahama

Une Foire Internationale Pour Célébrer L’art Africain Contemporain

Sammy Baloji

Une Foire Internationale Pour Célébrer L’art Africain Contemporain

Fayçal Baghriche

Londres, capitale de l’art africain contemporain ?

Mais le plus surprenant a été de constater l’incroyable effervescence autour de l’art africain contemporain à l’échelle de la ville entière. De la Tate Modern aux espaces alternatifs, en passant par les centres d’art et les galeries prestigieuses, pas moins d’une vingtaine d’expositions, rencontres, conférences étaient programmées dans divers lieux de Londres, mettant ainsi en lumière les affinités multiculturelles de la ville, produit d'une longue histoire spécifique.

Pour ne remonter qu’aux débuts du 20e siècle avec George Padmore et CLR James puis Stuart Hall, les intellectuels afro-caraïbeens ont nourri à partir de Londres une réflexion et une lutte contre les dominations ouvrant la voie des débats contemporains sur la culture, les médias, les identités, la post-colonialité et la mondialisation. Si cela n’a pas fondamentalement changé les choses, « les consciences ont gagné en ouverture » comme le dit Stuart Hall.

L’existence d’une « culture diasporique » pour reprendre les mots de Stuart Hall qui a su élire ses représentants dans des domaines aussi divers que la production intellectuelle, la musique, les arts et le cinéma ou encore la mise en spectacle de moments de rencontre populaires comme le carnaval de NottingHill, a permis l’émergence de lieux de réflexions et production artistiques, d’artistes et de médiateurs culturels présents aujourd’hui dans les grandes institutions.

Autant d’éléments qui ont peine à s'incarner encore aujourd’hui en France. Et si le français résonnait dans les couloirs de 1:54, il faut noter qu'un tel événement ne pourrait avoir lieu à Paris pour le moment! Ou eput-être au contraire qu'il suscitera des initiaves?

Oulimata Gueye

Une Foire Internationale Pour Célébrer L’art Africain Contemporain

L'exposition Black Chronicles II, à la fondation Autograph

Une Foire Internationale Pour Célébrer L’art Africain Contemporain
Une Foire Internationale Pour Célébrer L’art Africain Contemporain

Wangechi Mutu à la Victoria Miro Gallery

Quelques expositions dans la ville : Kerry James Marshall: Look See, David Zwirner gallery, jusqu'au 22/11/14 — Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Tiwani Contemporary gallery, jusqu'au 1/11/14 — Glenn Ligon: Call and Response, Camden Arts Centre jusqu'au 11/01/15 —Nike Davies Okundaye: A Retrospective, Gallery of African Art, jusqu'au 22/11/14 — Emeka Ogboh,Tiwani Contemporary gallery, à partir du 13/11/14.


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9 years ago
“We Wanted To Capture The Essence Of South African Township Culture In The 80s And 90s,” Says South
“We Wanted To Capture The Essence Of South African Township Culture In The 80s And 90s,” Says South
“We Wanted To Capture The Essence Of South African Township Culture In The 80s And 90s,” Says South
“We Wanted To Capture The Essence Of South African Township Culture In The 80s And 90s,” Says South
“We Wanted To Capture The Essence Of South African Township Culture In The 80s And 90s,” Says South
“We Wanted To Capture The Essence Of South African Township Culture In The 80s And 90s,” Says South
“We Wanted To Capture The Essence Of South African Township Culture In The 80s And 90s,” Says South
“We Wanted To Capture The Essence Of South African Township Culture In The 80s And 90s,” Says South
“We Wanted To Capture The Essence Of South African Township Culture In The 80s And 90s,” Says South
“We Wanted To Capture The Essence Of South African Township Culture In The 80s And 90s,” Says South

“We wanted to capture the essence of South African township culture in the 80s and 90s,” says South African photographer Kristin-Lee Moolman, recalling the brief for this shoot – the SS16 lookbook for emerging designer Rich Mnisi’s brand OATH studio. “The culture of androgyny was at its peak, supported largely by the need to ‘show up’ (out do each other).” So, to shoot the images, they headed to Mnisi’s grandmother’s house in Chiawelo, Soweto. When it came to casting the story, Moolman and Mnisi were keen to paint an accurate picture of youth culture in Johannesburg.

While Janet Otobo is a professional model, Wayne Swart is a student who they street cast on the way to the shoot. Aart Verrips is a photographer and, in fact, was Moolman’s assistant on the day. Incidentally it was Verrips’ first time in Soweto. “(It) was a new experience, especially being Afrikaans and gay,” he told us. “It was incredibly refreshing to go to the township and experiencing something totally different to what your perception had been.” As for Lucky Macheke – an accountant – he is Mnsis’s cousin and just happened to be hanging out in his grandmother’s house.

Desire Marea is one half of FAKA, an art duo who, as black queer artists, explore their complex identities through performance. “We teach complexities in a radical fight for our own humanity,” Marea says, explaining their raison d’être. In fact, Moolman and Mnisi also wanted to engage in identity politics in this shoot. “We felt that androgyny resonates with young people in South Africa now, where there is almost a celebration of LGBT communities as a movement to oppose cultural stereotypes and homophobia.

Written by Ted Stansfield for Dazed

10 years ago
This is the TRUE size of Africa
Our most common atlases are distorting the relative size of countries around the world, so German software and graphics designer, Kai Krause, made this map to set the record straight. (Scroll down for a more detailed, zoomable version.) "Africa is...

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9 years ago

In this Race, Crime & Citizenship Symposium about the role of prisons in the criminal “justice” system, scholar and commentator Kimberle Williams Crenshaw explores the presence of a large race-, and gender-based prison system shaping understandings of citizenship. Series: “Voices” [8/2006] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 11879]

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"Of whom and of what are we contemporaries? And, first and foremost, what does it mean to be contemporary?" Giorgio Agamben, Qu’est-ce que le contemporain?, Paris, Rivages, 2008. Photo: Icarus 13, Kiluanji Kia Henda

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