Event overview
Futures & Fictions: Visual Cultures Public Programme Autumn 2015
This talk takes the afterlives of Jean-Michel Basquiat's crown icon as its point of departure into a discussion of afrofabulation — the black production, projection, and animation of giants — in contemporary black and African diasporic art. How does work by contemporary visual and performance artists Kehinde Wiley, Wangechi Mutu, Geo Wyeth and others navigate the aporia of loss that conditions back social life and death in the present? What is left of ‘afrofuturism’ in their visual and performative strategies for fabulating presence and loss, trauma and futurity, gender and the sexual cut?
Respondent: Kodwo Eshun
Tavia Nyong'o is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University, and the author of The Amalgamation Waltz (Minnesota UP, 2009), as well as many articles on artists including Samuel R. Delany, Trajal Harrell, Kehinde Wiley, Kalup Linzy, and Kara Walker. He is completing a monograph on afrofabulation in contemporary black art and performance.
Futures and Fictions explores the political imaginary, the inventing and imaging of alternate narratives and image-worlds that might be pitched against the impasses of the present. The series ranges from future-oriented science fictions and alternative space-time plots to myths and images generated by marginalized and ‘minor’ communities, queer-feminist strategies of fictioning, and the production of new Afro- and other futurisms.
Series Organisers: Henriette Gunkel, Ayesha Hameed & Simon O’Sullivan
The event is free and no booking is required. All welcome.
Dates & times
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12 Nov 2015 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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