1970: Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorn made a tour of American universities – Harvard (from where I am writing these lines [sic.], Yale, and Berkeley, among others. […]. When Godard and Gorin made their tour, American campuses were ready to rise up. They called on students to offer their support to the Black Panther Party […]
The Rojo is a red bookshelf in the living room of the rented house where my librarian lives with his partner and their son. At the start of every day, during the period of this project (which now does by the name The Library of Our Future: A Ghost’s Story – note the shift to […]
For all the poets he now reads since my ‘death’ (and remember I am a library’s ghost dictating these words to him, my librarian, from the shelves of his ‘living’ library, which I currently haunt), he still has lines of that old-type natural fouled-up guy-poet Philip Larkin enmeshed in his memory. Even when he opens […]
Why this book today? Well, it could be that he saw an Instagram post by documenta 14 curator Natasha Ginwala celebrating Miriam Cahn’s work? Or is it because he missed the ImagineNative opening night screening of Danis Goulet’s dystopian thriller Night Raiders set in 2043, and somehow wanted to connect Cahn’s brutal imagery of humans […]
Tina was still convinced that she would soon be leaving Mexico and was fairly sure about where she would be going. Germany seemed an attractive choice and the February 1930 issue of Deutsches Magazin von Mexiko published several of her photographs along with an interview given some time previously, which mentioned that ‘Tina Modotti desperately […]
After about ten minutes it began to rain, and though Dalie [Giroux] didn’t mind, the umbrella was not enough to protect the camera, so we moved inside to a couch in the living room where we sat and talked, off camera, for hours, about her work, her writing and about ourselves, our early lives separated […]
Afterall Journal 44 Contents Foreword– Candice Hopkins Contextual Essays The Delicate Difference Between ‘Thinking at the Edge of the World’– Carola Grahn Early Contemporary Art in Post-Soviet Mongolia: Where is the Green Horse Galloping Now?– Tsendpurev Tsegmid A Conversation between Manuel Borja-Villel and Marcelo Expósito– Manuel Borja-Villel & Marcelo Expósito Artists Qiu Zhijie The Lazy […]
Afterall Journal 45 Contents Foreword– Charles Esche Contextual Essays Thinking and Engaging with the Decolonial: A Conversation Between Walter D. Mignolo and Wanda Nanibush– Walter D. Mignolo & Wanda Nanibush The Art of Gentrification: The Lisbon Version– Ana Teixeira Pinto a year or more of darkness, a few hundred years without day– Alec Finlay Artists Britta Marakatt-Labba Britta […]
Afterall Journal 43 Contents Foreword– Charles Stankievech Contextual Essays Dedicated to the Anishnawbekwe– Lee Maracle Coloniality is Far from Over, and So Must Be Decoloniality– Walter D. Mignolo Fish, Kin and Hope: Tending to Water Violations in amiskwaciwâskahikan and Treaty Six Territory– Zoe Todd Ethno-Futurism: Leaning on the Past, Working for the Future– Anders Kreuger Artists Lubaina Himid […]
Yes, I’m still here. When he goes off, either on a trip or on a set of blogposts (and sometimes both at the same time, cf. Seeing Scores), I prefer to leave him to it. A librarian without a library (or in the case when he was in Dayton at that Bergamo Curriculum Theorizing conference, […]