Book
A series of utterly improbable, yet extraordinary renditions
Record details
- ISBN: 3960981589
- ISBN: 9783960981589
- ISBN: 1908617446
- ISBN: 9781908617446
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Physical Description:
839 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 34 cm
print - Publisher: London : Serpentine Galleries : Koenig Books, [2018]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | This catalogue is published to accompany Arthur Jafa's exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries: A Series of Utterly Improbably, Yet Extraordinary Renditions (8 June-10 September 2017) that traveled to the Julia Stoschek Collection in Berlin (11 February-25 November 2018). |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Black topological existence / Fred Moten -- The visual frequency of black life / Tina M. Campt -- Arthur Jafa's monstrous cinema / Ernest Hardy -- It is in the brewing luminous / John Akomfrah -- Some very preliminary thoughts on the work of Frida Orupabo_Missylanyus_Ming Smith / Arthur Jafa -- Miles Davis / Lucius Shepard -- The women men don't see / James Tiptree, Jr. -- The terrible beauty of the slum / Saidiya Hartman -- Ruttier for the marooned in the diaspora / Dionne Brand -- Rethinking 'aesthetics': notes towards a deciphering practice / Sylvia Wynter -- The python will swallow anything whole / Akwaeke Emezi -- Is the rectum a grave? / Leo Bersani -- Nothing like the son: on Robert Mapplethorpe's X portfolio / Dave Hickey -- Is kinship always already heterosexual? / Judith Butler -- Mama's baby, papa's maybe: an American grammar book / Hortense J. Spillers -- The plastic inevitable: on Andy Warhol / Jean Baudrillard -- The screamers / Amiri Baraka -- Cecil Taylor's monster movie / Greg Tate -- Stars in my pocket like grains of sand / Samuel R. Delany -- 1730: becoming-intense, becoming-animal, becoming-imperceptible (Excerpt 1) / Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari -- 1730: becoming-intense, becoming-animal, becoming-imperceptible (Excerpt 2) / Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari -- Towards a global idea of race / Denise Ferreira da Silva -- From a broken bottle traces of perfume still emanate / Nathaniel Mackey -- Sound structure of subculture becoming major breath/naked fire gesture / Cecil Taylor -- Akomfrahgment / Fred Moten -- Reciprocity and rape: blackness and the paradox of sexual violence / Frank B. Wilderson, III -- Ra, your gignity our echo / Fred Moten -- Ẹbọra / M. NourbeSe Philip -- The people of sand and slag / Paolo Bacigalupi -- Darling / Hilton Als -- Untitled text / Jerzy Grotowski -- Black memorabilia / CM Burroughs -- The lions / John Keene -- Sly Stone: the myth of Staggerlee / Greil Marcus -- Dear incubator / CM Burroughs -- Fon / Henry Dumas -- Epilogue / Hans Ulrich Obrist, Yana Peel -- Additional thought in the form of a letter of recommendation / Arthur Jafa -- Thank you / Arthur Jafa. |
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| Subject: | Installations (Art) Black people in art -- Exhibitions Black people -- Race identity -- Exhibitions Jafa, Arthur |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily Carr University of Art + Design | N6537 .J3236 A4 2018 (Text) | 30241390 | Book | Volume hold | Available | - |
