Month: June 2012
Moving on the Wires: Black to the Future Series
Tempestt Hazel, curator of The Future’s Past exhibition and executive director of the Chicago Arts Archive: A Sixty Inches From Center Project is doing a series on Afrofuturism and Afrosurrealism. Two of her first interviewees were visual artist Krista Franklin and Afrosurrealist creator D. Scott Miller. This is the beginning of Franklin’s interview:
What is AfroFuturism and AfroSurrealism? The art historian in me finds it exciting to be in the middle of a rapidly advancing movement that is all at once undefined but unmistakable in presence, expanding and unfolding, and setting the tone for new waves in art, music, fashion and cultural production at all levels. The chapters of most art history textbooks I’ve come across have made it clear: our understanding of art and how it fits into a historical context is often shaped by historian-identified movements that are pinpointed late in the game or in hindsight…
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CFP: The Last Generation of Black People @ The Liberator Magazine
CFP: Blk Art Group Research Project 30th Anniversary Conference @ Wolverhampton University
Blk Art Group Research Project
30th Anniversary Conference
Wolverhampton University
Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th October 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
The conference aims to enable and share scholarship and research into the ‘Black Art Movement’, it’s core debates, precursors and legacies.
By bringing together artists, curators, historians and scholars we hope to add to the pool of knowledge surrounding the ‘black art movement’; to encourage those scholars already active in this field to further develop and share their work and to uncover work that may have gone unpublished or remain obscured.
This is a call for papers that contribute to the debate through the detailed and critical examination of a single work, body of work or group of works. Whilst the conference aims to focus on the 80s, papers may include works that were produced prior to the 80s or later as long as there is a clear rationale for their consideration in this context.
Finished papers should be suitable for a presentation of approximately 20 minutes. We ask that abstracts of up to 300 words and a brief biography should reach us at blkartgroupresearchproject@gmail.com by Friday 20th July.
PUB: Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies – Volume 33, Issue 2
Section of particular interest:
In Plain Sight: Breaking the Textual Bind
Celeste-Marie Bernier, ‘A “Typical Negro” or a “Work of Art?” The
“inner” via the “outer man” in Frederick Douglass’s Manuscripts and
Daguerreotypes’
Fionnghuala Sweeney, ‘Visual Culture and Fictive Technique in
Frederick Douglass’ The Heroic Slave’
Lisa Merrill, ‘Exhibiting Race “Under the World’s Huge Glass Case”:
William and Ellen Craft and William Wells Brown at the Great
Exhibition in Crystal Palace, London, 1851’
Dutch museum stages first major Caribbean art exhibition
Representations of Slavery Symposium Audio Now Online!
We are happy to announce that audio recordings for the symposium recently held at Newcastle University – Representations of Slavery in Neoliberal Times – are now freely available online.
The recordings of papers and subsequent roundtable discussion are available to listen to on the School of Arts and Cultures webpages, these include:
Alternative Empathies: Representing Slavery’s Affective Afterlives , Carolyn Pedwell, Newcastle University
Negative Positives: The Guardian, The Slave, The Wit and The Money, Lubaina Himid, Centre for Contemporary Art, University of Central Lancashire
Debt, Freedom and Slavery in Neoliberal Times, Julia O’Connell Davidson, University of Nottingham
To listen to these recordings click here. Thanks to sympoisum organiser Daniel McNeil for letting us know about this great resource.
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