This week’s question is how a library’s ghost approaches the phenomenon such an urgent and vital genre as the manifesto? Let’s start by thinking about what a manifesto library could be. Here I have to ask my librarian to think back to his experience at the Manifesto Library, an exhibition by Blake Turner at the […]
B: People talk of the Marshall Plan, which rebuilt the economy of Europe. But they don’t ! ! mention the African Plan, which enabled Hitler’s hordes at a time when their economies !! were under siege, their stability threatened. Who saved Europe? It was Africa. There is very little talk about that. There is so […]
Notice the care with which [Edmonia] Lewis sculpted their [Minnehaha, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha (1855), and the arrow maker – Minnehaha’s father] deer-hide moccasins and perhaps paid homage to her two aunts, who made and sold moccasins in her ancestral Anishinaabeg homeland. – America Meredith, ‘In Focus: Edmonia Lewis: The Old Arrow […]
A necropastoral. This term is not in the dictionary. Where did I first hear it? [cf. Joyelle McSweeney’s ‘What Is the Necropastoral?‘] It does not exist and yet it was said and is now being repeated. I was born. In a slave narrative that means nothing. Meaningless. I was born and in the midst of […]
Obviously, the way in which agriculture in the South developed was directly related to, indeed founded on, the system of slavery. But, beyond that, the way in which the U.S. related to the world market, and built up its prosperity and economic base in that way, was to a very large degree dependent on slave-based […]
NOW I SPEND MY WHOLE DAY INSIDE HERE I HAD TO LEARN MY HOME ALL OVER AGAIN ALTHOUGH I AM SITTING IN THIS ROOM SOMETIMES I FEEL AS IF I AM IN TRINIDAD text from Stephen Willats ‘Concrete Windows’, included in the catalog ‘…AND OTHER SUCH STORIES’, edited by Yesomi Umolu, Sepake Angiama, and Paulo […]
Here we are at the culmination of this week’s build-up – drum-roll please! There is no place in the book I am communicating to you from – Kunstforum International Bd. 248/249 on documenta 14 – for the works that I have been alluding to located in the basement of the Neue Galerie in Kassel. There […]
