A History of the Impossible
by Malik Gaines
- Author(s)
- Malik Gaines
- Publication, year
- New York : New York University Press, 2017
- Scope
- 234 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781479804306
Bringing the lens forward through contemporary art performance, Malik Gaines connects the idea of sixties radicality to today’s interest in that history, explores the aspects of those politics that are lost in translation, and highlights the black expressive strategies that have maintained potent energy. 'Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left' articulates the role black theatricality played in the radical energy of the sixties, following the evolution of black identity politics to reveal blackness’s ability to transform contemporary social conditions. Looking broadly at performances found in music, theater, film, and everyday life—from American singer and pianist Nina Simone, Ghanaian playwrights Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo, Afro-German actor Günther Kaufmann, to California-based performer Sylvester—Gaines explores how shared signs of racial legacy and resistance politics are articulated with regional distinction.
- Location
- Cabinet 29 - 4: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; zwarte kunst en cultuur
- Extra themes
- Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
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