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Cosmic underground : a grimoire of black speculative discontent / edited by Reynaldo Anderson and John Jennings ; introduction by Greg Tate.

Fine Arts Library N6538.N5 C67 2018
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Format:
Book
Conference/Event
Contributor:
Anderson, Reynaldo, 1964- editor.
Jennings, John, 1970- editor.
Tate, Greg, writer of introductory text.
Conference Name:
Exhibition "Unveiling Visions" (2015 : New York, N.Y.)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African American art--21st century--Exhibitions.
African American art.
Art, Black--21st century--Exhibitions.
Art, Black.
African American artists--Exhibitions.
African American artists.
Artists, Black--Exhibitions.
Artists, Black.
American fiction--African American authors--Exhibitions.
American fiction.
Speculative fiction, American--Exhibitions.
Speculative fiction, American.
American fiction--African American authors.
Genre:
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:
241 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Place of Publication:
[San Francisco, CA] : [Cedar Grove Publishing], [2018]
Summary:
"Cosmic Underground: A Grimoire of Black Speculative Discontent and its inspiration, the ground-breaking exhibition Unveiling Visions, applies a global lens and planetary vision to the black imagination, and brings this context to a wide survey of contemporary works. This book showcases illustrations, graphic design, literature, posters, and mixed-media digital and analog artworks along with insightful analysis by brilliant scholars and amazingly talented creatives. Cosmic Underground serves as a creative, experimental and educational motive force to analyze the growing corpus of work surrounding the nexus between politics and contemporary artistic production. This project includes the areas of black cultural production situated within Afrofuturism, AstroBlackness, the EthnoGothic, Magical Realism, Sword and Soul, and the AfroSurreal."--Amazon.com.
"Cosmic Underground: A Grimoire of Black Speculative Discontent and its inspiration, the ground-breaking exhibition Unveiling Visions, applies a global lens and planetary vision to the black imagination, and brings this context to a wide survey of contemporary works. This book showcases illustrations, graphic design, literature, posters, and mixed-media digital and analog artworks along with insightful analysis by brilliant scholars and amazingly talented creatives. Cosmic Underground serves as a creative, experimental and educational motive force to analyze the growing corpus of work surrounding the nexus between politics and contemporary artistic production. This project includes the areas of black cultural production situated within Afrofuturism, AstroBlackness, the EthnoGothic, Magical Realism, Sword and Soul and the AfroSurreal."--Amazon.com.
Contents:
Black Speculative Art manifesto (SPELL) / Linda D. Addision
Meta-data thief / Damian Duffy
Deprogram the programmers : Afrofuturism and Detroit techno / Tobias C. Van Veen
Out of the night, into the night : the Moorish effect on the enlightened & modern worlds / Ryan M. Branson, Sr., 32
Ontologies of Orisha technology : West African spirituality afrofuturistic visions / Kinitra Brooks
#FREEBree climbs so we can fly / Clint Fluker
Providence / Ajani Brown
From Audre Lorde to Africa Bambaataa : the politics of de_perception / Natasha A. Kelly
Black Star Line / Moor Mother Goddess
Electrical scent of Damas : Negritude, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Afrosurreal / D. Scot Miller
Oddities of nature : Bishop Charles H. Mason and the realm of the supernatural / Rev. Andrew Rollins
Ferguson future shock and the return of the real / Reynaldo Anderson
Are angels rockets? : a suite from the squence Scott Heath
Cadillacs in space? / Jason Vasser
Obsidian/The ballad of bad brains / Kevin Sipp
Harmonics and modalities of metaphysical blackness / Rev. Andrew Rollins
Dismantling the master's clock : black quantum futurism as a new afro-diasporic time consciousness / Rashheedah Phillips (founder of The Afrofuturistam Affair/Black Quantum Futurism)
Watch night: A ten minute play / Gregory S. Carr
Root working's recursions in the black imagination / Tiffany E. Barber
Genesis/Love under surveillance / Reynaldo Anderson
What shall I teach them? : musings of an afrofuturist educator / Deirdre Hollman
Ogun : primordial architect of a liberated black future / Darasia Selby-Adebisi (Ifatoyin Alaade Ojekemi)
Afro future in the midst of upheaval / Damon Davis
Dark matter : an interview with John Jennings / Tiffany Barber
Afrofuturism 2.0 and the Black Speculative Arts movement : notes on a manifesto Reynaldo Anderson.
Notes:
Title from cover.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Unveiling Visions" showcased at the Schomburg Library in New York City in 2015.
Page 241 reprinted as page [3] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [224]-[226]).
ISBN:
1941958788
9781941958780
OCLC:
1008982809

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