Where were we? Where is this is all leading? Our Library of the Future: A Ghost’s Story has been the replacement of some books with others, a library with another library, by a scholar to come who listens to ghosts. And, now, the secret at the heart of this project and of all that is […]
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 […]
Holiness is what is dear to the gods. Who said that? I dunno but it’s not helpful. Never mind, ignore it. Let’s check-in instead. So, how are you coping? Healthy and sane? My starting position (forced on each of us, black reader and white writer, by this writing and our society) were the sites of […]
On this day commemorating incomplete emancipation, I offer you this unfinished blogpost in the form of three unanswerable questions: How many Republican sheep does it take to maintain Trump’s regime? How many armed militia statue-protectors does it take to maintain settler colonialism? How many commercial prisons does it take to maintain racist injustice? This blogpost […]
The images on these pages (sic) refer to the most important days in my career as an artist. August 29, 1959, is the date of HH 1. About two months later, I burned two bicycle tires. Together, they persuaded me to take art seriously and spend the rest of my life in its pursuit.
You didn’t eat at Rasheed Araeen’s Shamiyaana–Food for Thought: Thought for Change in Kotzia Square. You did, however, visit it empty, the day after one of the meals, and wondered about what it would be like full of guests, eating and talking, ‘reflecting on possible scenarios for social change’. You were sure that it would […]