A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions
A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions

by Arthur Jafa ; with texts by Fred Moten, Judith Butler, Cecil Taylor, Hilton Als ...[et al.]

Auteur(s)
Fred Moten, Judith Butler, Cecil Taylor, Hilton Als, ...[et al.]
Editor(s)
Arthur Jafa
Uitgever, jaar
London ; Köln : Serpentine Galleries : Walther König, 2018
Omvang
848 p., geïllustreerd, 34 cm.
ISBN
9781908617446

Building upon Jafa’s image-based practice, this new volume comprises a series of visual sequences that are cut and juxtaposed across its pages. The artist has been collecting and working from a set of source books since the 1990s, seeking to trace and map unwritten histories and narratives relating to black life. Punctuating this visual material is a series of commissioned texts partnered with essays, short stories and poetry that has informed Jafa’s artistic practice and which together form an unprecedented resource. The commissioned writers in this book provide great insight into Jafa’s practice: Ernest Hardy’s text offers new insight into Jafa’s work Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, whilst Tina Campt’s ‘The Visual Frequency of Black Life’ questions the sound of images and the frequency of black vernacular photography. Fred Moten has written a lyrical piece titled ‘Black Topological Existence’ and John Akomfrah expands on the ideas of Black aesthetics or experience and the artist’s use of image archives.


Persoon als onderwerp
Arthur Jafa
Trefwoorden
photography , film , video
Locatie in de bibliotheek
Kast 4 - 3: Kunstenaars