"I Don't Write Because I Was Segregated And Humiliated And Dispossessed. I Write In Spite Of That." -

Kara Walker,  The Crossing, 2017

“The day of the Inauguration, Kara Walker, a painter and installation artist, couldn’t turn on the news; she started painting. The result is a monumental, nine-by-twelve-foot work, alluding to Emanuel Leutze’s 1851 Washington Crossing the Delaware.” 

via adacreate 11 May 2014 - 12 May 2014 / “Global Black Consciousness” Hôtel Sokhamon, Dakar, Senegal

The Institute for Comparative Modernities (Cornell University) and the Institute of African American Affairs (New York University) will hold the international conference “Global Black Consciousness” on May 11 and 12, 2014, in Dakar, Senegal. The conference is coordinated by Margo Natalie Crawford and Salah Hassan (Cornell University) and Manthia Diawara (NYU). The conference will coincide with the opening days of the Dakar Biennale (Dak’Art 2014), which opens on May 9, 2014. The two-day gathering will focus on the theme of “Global Black Consciousness,” with invited participants who will present new and unpublished work.

THEME/CONCEPT:

Now that we have such tremendous scholarship on particular identities shaped by the African diaspora (Afro-German, Black British, African American, Afro-Latina/o, Afro-Caribbean, and many more) and tremendous theories of the value and limits of Pan-Africanism, Afro-pessimism, and many other “isms,” how do we create a space for the critical and nuanced analysis of global black consciousness as both a citing of diasporic flows and a grounded site of decolonizing movement? This multi-event and multi-site conference aims to explore the confluence between theories of diaspora and theories of decolonization. Moreover, the crisscrossing of visual art, literature, film, and other cultural productions will be explored alongside the crosscurrent that shaped the transnational flow of black consciousness. The scholars participating in this conference will situate their work in the space of the crisscrossing that occurred as the Black freedom struggle became a layering of locations and dislocations and past, present, and future.

The 1960s and 70s will be the pivot point as we think about the precursors and legacies of the 1960s and 70s black freedom struggles. From May 9 to June 8, 2014, Dak’Art, la Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain, will be held in Dakar. The theme and the occasion allow to revisit major Black and Pan-African intellectual movements and festivals (such as the Dakar’s Festival of World Negro Arts of 1966, Algiers of 1969, and FESTAC 1977 in Lagos, Nigeria, among others) in addition to revisiting individual artistic and intellectual work tied to Africa and the African Diaspora.

The conference’s papers will be published in a co-edited volume entitled Global Black Consciousness.

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)

Faith Ringgold, Committee to Defend the Panthers, poster, 1970

FAK'UGESI DIGITAL AFRICA CONFERENCE

Will be held at the Wits School of Arts on the 4th, 5th and 6th of December 2014.

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Cristina De Middel photojournaliste de formation, a choisi il y a quelques années de quitter le domaine strictement journalistique pour raconter des histoires avec ses photos et s'applique à brouiller les pistes entre réel, fantastique et fantaisiste. En 2012, la série "Afronauts" —interprétation personnelle du projet du zambien Edward Festus Makuka Nkoloso d'envoyer une navette spatiale sur la lune avant les Américains et les Russes—, lui confère une rapide notoriété. En 2013, invitée par le Lagos Photo Festival, elle s'appuie sur le célèbre roman du Nigérian Amos Tutuola, "Ma vie dans la brousse des fantômes" pour réaliser une série de portraits des habitants de Makoko, un quartier pauvre à la périphérie de Lagos.

De passage à Paris, pour le salon Paris Photo, Cristina De Middel nous présente sa démarche dans laquelle science-fiction et Fantasy tentent de déplacer le champs des représentations de l'Afrique.

Voir les photos de "This is what hatred did" sur le site du Lagos Photo Festival

Oulimata Gueye

Khayelitsha, a human dumping ground of about 1 million people was built by the apartheid government and continues to be maintained by the current neoliberal ‘democratic’ regime. The townships are hell on earth. They are a space that dehumanises all those who live in it. by The Tokolos Stencil Collective

 Photographer Cristina de Middel’s Intoxicating Blend of Truth and Fiction

Black Arthur Blythe, Bush Baby, 1978

Fitting of my F.A.T.E larp outfit 2# for Henry-Pierre