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(not on view) Easter Sunday in Harlem
Easter Sunday in Harlem | Henri Cartier-Bresson | 1950s | Gelatin silver print | 49.0 x 32.8 cm. (19 5/16 x 12 15/16 in.)
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/270095
“…or the voice of the sea”
“is it
The voice of my heart in my side or the voice of the sea”
fabric | thread | gifts | words | india ink | paint | 24 K gold leaf
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Spinning the web for “…or the voice of the sea”
Opening tonight as part of gallery gachet’s collective show
6 pm - 9 pm | friday 8 january | 88 e cordova | vancouver
On the occasion of A Constellation, this In Conversation program features exhibiting artists Andrew Ross and Sondra Perry, who will be joined by Mendi + Keith Obadike to explore perceptions of truth and reality as rendered through a variety of media including, sound, video and performance. Acknowledging the role that technology plays in mediating our existence and skewing the boundaries between fact and fiction, this conversation engages these dynamic gray areas, where traces of signifiers often stand in for the absent subjects, signs and symbols themselves. The program begins with a discussion of Ross and Perry’s works on view, followed by an exploration of the role that digital reproduction plays in empowering artists to render the invisible as visible. Sondra Perry is an interdisciplinary artist whose works in video, computer-based media, and performance explore what Perry calls the “slippages of identity” that define subjective experience in the digital world. Perry investigates themes of power and agency, especially as they are determined by race and gender identities. Embracing and integrating new digital platforms for installation and context-based artworks, the artist puts these questions of identity in conversation with contemporary articulations and embodiments of desire, materiality, labor, and history. Perry’s works are both highly political and acutely familiar with colloquial experiences of digital interfaces. Andrew Ross is a Brooklyn-based visual artist. His work is primarily comprised of sculptures and photographs that simultaneously approach and deny representation, creating a state of mimetic ambiguity. His pieces play with contradictory couplings of nameable objects with abstractions, exposing the familiar as constructs of material and color. He make images and sculptures that deconstruct the object to express the notion that things are often not entirely how they appear and that interesting narratives hide in banal situations. Mendi + Keith Obadike make music, art and literature. Their works include Black.Net.Art Actions, a suite of new media artworks (published in re:skin on M.I.T Press), Big House / Disclosure, a 200 hour public sound installation (Northwestern University), Phonotype, a book & CD of media artworks, and a poetry collection, Armor and Flesh (Lotus Press). They have contributed sounds/music to projects by wide range of artists including loops for soul singer D'Angelo’s first album and a score for playwright Anna Deavere Smith at the Lincoln Center Institute. Their intermedia work has been commissioned by The NY African Film Festival and Electronic Arts Intermix, The Yale Cabaret, Whitechapel Art Gallery (London), and The Whitney Museum of Art, among other institutions. Their music has been featured on New York and Chicago public radio, as well as on Juniradio (104.5) in Berlin. Keith received a BA in Art from North Carolina Central University and an MFA in Sound Design from Yale University. Mendi received a BA in English from Spelman College and a PhD in Literature from Duke University.
Nina Simone singing Backlash Blues
Lyrics by Langston Hughes
The Greatest African American and Afro-American Martial Artists in History
By Ben Miller
When asked to recall a great martial artist of African descent born in the Americas, the average person is likely to mention a twentieth-century boxer such as Joe Louis, or a more recent exponent of the Asian martial arts, such as Jim Kelly. Or, those of the younger generation might name the modern mixed martial arts competitor Anderson Silva, regarded by some as the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
What many do not know is that in centuries past, some of the greatest practitioners of European martial arts were of African descent.
Although Africans brought a number of their own indigenous techniques with them to Europe and the Americas (as can be read about here), they also sometimes trained in, adopted, and excelled at European swordsmanship—also known as classical and historical fencing.
During the 18th and 19th centuries, it was even possible (albeit difficult) for a person of African descent to achieve renown to such a point that they would be revered, and even sought for instruction, by whites—and the historical record shows that such was the case for multiple individuals.
An early instance of one such person can be found as early as 1733, when the following advertisement appeared in a southern Colonial newspaper, informing the public about a runaway slave or indentured servant:
“Run away, from Mr. Alex. Vanderdussen’s Plantation at Goose-Creek, a Negro Man named Thomas Butler, the famous Pushing and Dancing Master.” – South-Carolina Gazette (Whitmarsh), May 19 to May 26, 1733.
In eighteenth century terminology, to “Push” was to launch an attack with the smallsword, a fact which confirms that Thomas Butler was a fencing master—and one who had achieved some degree of fame, at least on a local scale. Butler was apparently so esteemed that in July of 1734, his former master was impelled to post the following additional notice:
“Whereas Thomas Butler, Fencing Master, has been runaway these two years since, and has been entertained by several gentlemen about Ferry who pretend not to know that he had a master, this is therefore desired that they would not do the like in the future…” – South-Carolina Gazette, July 20, 1734…
read full article HERE
Elision:
call me an angry Black woman
tell me to go back where I came from
Forthcoming Science Fiction & Fantasy by Writers of Color (2015)
The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu (7th of April, 2015)
Two men rebel together against tyranny—and then become rivals—in this first sweeping book of an epic fantasy series from Ken Liu, recipient of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards.
Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older (30th of June, 2015)
When the murals in a young artist’s neighborhood begin to weep real tears, Sierra Santiago discovers shadowshaping, a thrilling magic that infuses ancestral spirits into paintings, music, and stories. But someone is killing the shadowshapers one by one—and the killer believes Sierra is hiding their greatest secret.
Time Salvager by Wesley Chu (7th of July, 2015)
In a future when Earth is a toxic, abandoned world and humanity has spread into the outer solar system to survive, the tightly controlled use of time travel holds the key maintaining a fragile existence among the other planets and their moons.
Apex by Ramez Naam (5th of May, 2015)
In the concluding volume of the Nexus trilogy, mankind has evolved. They call them the Apex—humanity’s replacement. They’re smarter, faster, better. And infinitely more dangerous.
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (4th of August, 2015)
In a world that has suffered frequent, repeated Extinction Level Events for millions of years, and all life (and magic) in this world has adapted to it, Essun must fight to save her daughter at the risk of breaking herself.
The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor (5th of May, 2015)
A prequel to World Fantasy Award-winning novel, Who Fears Death. Phoenix is raised among other genetic experiments in New York’s Tower 7. She is an accelerated woman, only two years old but with the body and mind of an adult, Phoenix’s abilities far exceed those of a normal human.
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho (Not Pictured) (September 2015)
In 1800s London, Zacharias Wythe, a freed slave and England’s first black Sorcerer Royal, is sent to discover why England’s magical stocks are drying up.
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabba Tahir (Not Pictured) (April 2015)
The story of two teenagers fighting to survive under the Empire’s brutal, militaristic regime, which has outlawed reading among the once-powerful Scholar class; the Scholars no live under the oppression of the Martials, who silently assassinate insurgents.
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor (Not Pictured) (14th of July, 2015)
After an alien ambassador’s arrival outside Lagos, Nigeria is leaked via YouTube, it’s up to a famous rapper, a biologist, and a rogue soldier to handle First Contact and prevent mass extinction.
Elision:
Am I not a woman, and a sister?
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Elision:
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I call you on this fuckery
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Fiction Week!
The Octavia Butler Bibliography
Official Octavia Butler Page at SFWA
Octavia Butler at Goodreads
Wikipedia Page
Dance Troupe Practice - Open practice at Templeton pool Sunday 5 July.
Some fun projects coming up at the Pandora Fieldhouse (and check out the shiny new water park if you haven’t already) and Templeton. More pics sooooon.
Sunday dancing
Mahdi Ehsaei’s “Afro-Iran – The Unknown Minority“ Photobook is Now Available for Purchase.
Earlier this month, we talked to German-Iranian photographer Mahdi Ehsaei about the history of Africans in Iran and his experience creating his photo series documenting Afro-Iranians in southern Iran.
After publishing his photos online, his book “Afro-Iran The Unknown Minority” is now available for purchase. The first of its kind, publication features a series of 60 portraits and mood pictures, in colour, as well as essays that explore the historical and cultural significance of an often unacknowledged minority that has shaped culture in both southern Iran and other parts of the country. It also describes the more than 500 year old history of Africans in Iran, from enslavement by traders up to their emancipation in 1928.
Support the Afro-Iran project on Kickstarter and receive exclusive rewards. You can also purchase the book directly on Mahdi’s website.
Read our interview with him.
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