by Arthur Jafa ; with texts by Fred Moten, Judith Butler, Cecil Taylor, Hilton Als ...[et al.]
- Author(s)
- Fred Moten, Judith Butler, Cecil Taylor, Hilton Als, ...[et al.]
- Editor(s)
- Arthur Jafa
- Publication, year
- London ; Köln : Serpentine Galleries : Walther König, 2018
- Scope
- 848 Pages, illustrated, 34 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781908617446
Building upon Jafa’s image-based practice, this new volume comprises a series of visual sequences that are cut and juxtaposed across its pages. The artist has been collecting and working from a set of source books since the 1990s, seeking to trace and map unwritten histories and narratives relating to black life. Punctuating this visual material is a series of commissioned texts partnered with essays, short stories and poetry that has informed Jafa’s artistic practice and which together form an unprecedented resource. The commissioned writers in this book provide great insight into Jafa’s practice: Ernest Hardy’s text offers new insight into Jafa’s work Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, whilst Tina Campt’s ‘The Visual Frequency of Black Life’ questions the sound of images and the frequency of black vernacular photography. Fred Moten has written a lyrical piece titled ‘Black Topological Existence’ and John Akomfrah expands on the ideas of Black aesthetics or experience and the artist’s use of image archives.
- Person as subject
- Arthur Jafa
- Keywords
- photography , film , video
- Location
- Cabinet 4 - 3: Kunstenaars
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