We Travel the Space Ways Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions Henriette Gunkel, kara lynch

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gunkel, Henriette <p>Henriette Gunkel, Goldsmiths – University of London, UK</p>, Editor.

lynch, kara <p>kara lynch, Hampshire College, USA</p>, Editor.

Series:

Post_koloniale Medienwissenschaft

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Afrofuturism.

African Science Fiction.

Time.

Art.

Diaspora.

Postcolonialism.

Gender.

Gender Studies.

African Art.

Africa.

Cultural Studies.

Local Subjects:

Afrofuturism.

African Science Fiction.

Time.

Art.

Diaspora.

Postcolonialism.

Gender.

Gender Studies.

African Art.

Africa.

Cultural Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (453 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Gunkel/lynch (eds.), We Travel the Space Ways Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2019

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Henriette Gunkel (PhD) is lecturer at the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work focusses on the politics of time from a decolonizing, queer-feminist perspective. She is working on a monograph on Alien Time that focusses on Africanist science-fictional interventions. She is the author of The Cultural Politics of Female Sexuality in South Africa (Routledge, 2010) and co-editor of What Can a Body Do? (Campus, 2012), Undutiful Daughters. New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice (Palgrave McMillan, 2012), and Futures & Fictions (Repeater, 2017), which was nominated for the 2018 International Center of Photography's Infinity Award in the Critical Writing and Research category.

kara lynch (MFA) is a time-based artist living in the Bronx, NY who earns a living as an Associate Professor of Video and Critical Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Ambivalent towards hyper-visual culture, she is curious about duration, embodiment, and aural experience; and through low-fi, collective practice and social intervention lynch explores aesthetic/political relationships between time + space. Her work is vigilantly raced, classed, and gendered - Black, queer and feminist. Major projects include: `Black Russians' - a feature documentary video (2001), `The Outing' - a video travelogue (1999-2004), `Mouhawala Oula' - a gender-bending trio performance for oriental dance, live video, and saxophone (2009). The current project 'INVISIBLE', an episodic, speculative, multi-site video/audio installation - excavates the terror and resilient beauty of Black experience.

Summary:

A new take on Afrofuturism, this book gathers together a range of contemporary voices who, carrying legacies of 500 years of contact between Africa, Europe, and the Americas, reach towards the stars and unknown planets, galaxies, and ways of being. Writing from queer and feminist perspectives and circumnavigating continents, they recalibrate definitions of Afrofuturism. The editors and contributors of this exciting volume thus reflect upon the re-emergence of Black visions of political and cultural futures, proposing practices, identities, and collectivities.With contributions from AfroFuturist Affair, John Akomfrah, Jamika Ajalon, Stefanie Alisch, Jim Chuchu, Grisha Coleman, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Abigail DeVille, M. Asli Dukan with Wildseeds, Kodwo Eshun, Anna Everett, Raimi Gbadamosi, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Milumbe Haimbe, Ayesha Hameed, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Kara Keeling, Carla J. Maier, Tobias Nagl, Tavia Nyongo, Rasheedah Phillips, Daniel Kojo Schrade, Nadine Siegert, Robyn Smith, Greg Tate and Frohawk Two Feathers.

Besprochen in:Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, 22/1 (2020), Vera Maderwww.centrum3.at, 6 (2020)

»Für die Forschung zum Afrofuturismus stellt der Band ein repräsentatives und in der Zukunft sicher unerlässliches Referenzwerk dar.«

Contents:

Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Acknowledgement 9 Black Astrophysics: A Homemade Field of Love 15 Lift Off an Introduction 21 City of Mirage 47 Reach, Robot: AfroFuturist Technologies 53 Glitches Running Trains Out In Negrizonia, A Gynocidal Western 69 To Win the War, You Fought It Sideways: Kojo Laing's Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars 83 Black Atlantis 107 The Palace of the Quilombos 129 The Sound of Afrofuturism 133 The Revolutionist 151 The Crypt of Blackness: or Assotto Saint with Gilles Deleuze 175 Rise of the Astro Blacks 199 The Archivist's Vault :: Door Of No Return 205 An Afrofuturist Time Capsule - One Point in Space-Time in the Collective Consciousness of Black Speculation 211 Organize Your Own Temporality: Notes on Self-Determined Temporalities and Radical Futurities 237 "I Feel Love": Race, Gender, Techn, and the (Im)Proper Sonic Habitus 245 Afrofuturism On My Mind: Imagining Black Lives in a Post-Obama World 251 Brother Kyot 281 Intervening into the Future Script: A Conversation about Fiction, Magic, and the Speculative Power of Images 287 Dismantle Imperia 303 Textures of Time - Abstraction, Afronauts, and the Archive in the Artwork of Daniel Kojo Schrade 321 There Are Storytellers Everywhere 343 Prophetika 357 The Secessionist Manifestos of Certain Received Wisdoms 363 They Sent You? 371 Alienation and Queer Discontent 387 FAR SPACE-WISE - Without Edges a Center Cannot Exist in Stasis 405 Future 433 Authors 441

ISBN:

9783839446010

3839446015

OCLC:

1105858139