Associationxamxam - African Digital Perspectives

New Joburg: another @ikirejones collaboration:: www.ikirejones.com GET FRESH. #art #design #fashion #style #menswear

Ignorance is ignorance, no matter where you find it.

Samuel R. Delany, “The Story of Old Venn” (via wordswilling)

P A R E N T S ’   T O U C H

Stills from: Boneshaker (2013), Afronauts (2014), Toughlove (unreleased) (all directed by Frances Bodomo & shot by Joshua James Richards)

Barkley L. Hendricks, Icon for My Man Superman (Superman never saved any black people - Bobby Seale), 1969

« De qui et de quoi sommes-nous les contemporains ? Et, avant tout, qu'est-ce que cela signifie, être contemporains ? »

Giorgio Agamben, Qu'est-ce que le contemporain?, Paris, Rivages, 2008.

Shamans using sites like Facebook for black magic, says Malaysian official

A communications officer with a government ministry has reportedly warned people against posting pictures of themselves on social media, lest they be used in black magic rituals.

Glenn Ligon, Give us a Poem (Palindrome #2), 2007

“Glenn Ligon made this neon piece […] in 2007, and I saw it a little while back on the wall of the Studio Museum in Harlem, where it’s part of the permanent collection. The work is built around an incident that occurred at Harvard in 1975, when Muhammad Ali had just finished a speech and a student in the audience asked him to improvise a poem: ‘Me/We’ was the pithy verse Ali offered. Even then, at the height of the Black Power movement, it was an intriguingly opaque statement that could have been read as a gesture of solidarity between the black boxer and his white audience, or as an underlining of their difference. In Ligon’s work, the two words become a visual palindrome, of sorts – symmetrical top and bottom – and alternate being lit (white) and unlit (black), which just increases the tension inherent in them. In 2014, in a museum in Harlem, it strikes me that the tension is between the artist and the audience he addresses – with the issue of race still there, but now wrapped up in larger issues of aesthetic communities and the class, and color, they imply." Blake Gopnik, The Daily Pic

Weekend Lagos night vibes. #lagos #nigeria #shrine #everydayafrica #personalshots #yagazieemezi (at THE NEW AFRIKA SHRINE)

Vitra Design Museum, Basel, 2015. Making Africa - A continent of Contemporary Design.

How do you know I’m real? I’m not real; I’m just like you. You don’t exist in this society; if you did, your people wouldn’t be seeking equal rights. You’re not real; if you were, you’d have some status among the nations of the world. So we’re both myths. I do not come to you as the reality, I come to you as the myth because that’s what black people are, myths… I’m actually a present sent to you by your ancestors.

Sun Ra, Space is the Place (1974)  (via lordsofsoundandlesserthings)