Adam Pendleton : Who is queen? : a reader / edited by Adam Pendleton with Alec Mapes-Frances ; introduction by Stuart Comer ; with contributions by Adrienne Edwards, Mario Gooden, Danielle A. Jackson, and Lynne Tillman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pendleton, Adam, 1984- artist, editor.

Contributor:

Comer, Stuart, writer of added commentary.

Edwards, Adrienne (Art critic), writer of added commentary.

Gooden, Mario, writer of added commentary.

Jackson, Danielle A., 1987- writer of added commentary.

Tillman, Lynne, writer of added commentary.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pendleton, Adam, 1984---Exhibitions.

Pendleton, Adam.

Pendleton, Adam, 1984-.

Race in art--Exhibitions.

Race in art.

Art and society--United States--History--21st century--Exhibitions.

Art and society.

History.

United States.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

272 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Distribution:

New York : Distributed in the United States by ARTBOOK D.A.P.

Other Title:

Who is Queen, a reader

Place of Publication:

New York : Museum of Modern Art, [2021]

Summary:

In this primer accompanying Adam Pendleton's MoMA show, the artist behind Black Dada fuses musical counterpoint with the aesthetics of protest, Adam Pendleton draws on visual culture and historical archives to explore the ways in which context influences meaning. Referencing a broad range of artistic and cultural currents--including Dada, Minimalism and Black Power--Pendleton reconfigures words, forms and images to provoke critical questioning. Published to accompany Pendleton's installation at the Museum of Modern Art, this reader serves as a primer and handbook to the exhibition and features a number of photocopied textual and visual sources, many of which directly relate to the concept, content and programming of the exhibition. The project questions the notion of the museum as repository and addresses the influence that mass movements, including those of the last decade such as Black Lives Matter and Occupy, could have on the exhibition as form. Drawing on the work of figures as disparate as Glenn Gould, Michael Hardt and Ruby Sales, Who Is Queen? seeks to explore the nexus of abstraction and politics.

Contents:

Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry

Introduction / Stuart Comer

Occupy time / Jason Adams

Repetition as a figure of black culture / James A. Snead

Black awakening in Obama's America / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Grammar and ghosts: the performative limits of African freedom / Frank B. Wilderson III

Composition no.19 / Anthony Braxton

Julius Eastman in his own voice, interview by David Garland / Julius Eastman

Dear Angel of Death (excerpt) / Simone White

From the lab notebooks of the last experiments (excerpt) / Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Information (excerpt) / Kynaston McShine

No one is sovereign in love, interview by Heather Davis and Paige Sarlin / Lauren Berland and Michael Hardt

George Yancy and Judith Butler

The other's language / Ornette Coleman and Jacques Derrida

Radio as music, interview by John Jessop / Glenn Gould

Words don't go there / Fred Moten and Charles Henry Rowell

Ruby Sales: where does it hurt?, interview by Krista Tippett / Ruby Sales

Who is Queen? A roundtable / Stuart Comer, Adrienne Edwards, Danielle A. Jackson, Adam Pendleton, and Lynne Tillman

Black anterior: what can Black Dada do for architecture? / Mario Gooden

Audiography and archival exhibition photographs.

Notes:

"'Who is Queen?' is an evolution of the Black Dada project. ... 'Who is Queen?' also considers the aesthetics of protest, particularly of the Black Lives Matter and Occupy movements, two of the most significant civil-rights campaigns of the past decade."--Page 7.

Catalog accompanying an exhibition held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 18, 2021-January 30, 2022.

Audiography: pages 255-263.

Includes bibliographical references (page 269).

ISBN:

1633451100

9781633451100

OCLC:

1144877248

Publisher Number:

MoMA 2474