Gaëlle Choisne: We are all Negroes

I create installations at the nexus of sculpture and photography. An hybridization between image, photography and video. Creolisation of a chaos-world.

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Daniela Yohannes : Eternal Space.

” […] My practice allows me to explore fictional narratives, which enable me to remove all concrete limitation and boundaries. I make art to try to understand myself, my environment and the greater world beyond. […] I paint characters that investigate and confront the void. I paint characters that are facets of myself, but not earthbound. I paint characters that stem from a distant, lingering yearning for freedom.” (extract from Daniela’s ‘Artist Statement’)

shout me down if you can

« A reasoned conversation about how artists and curators of all backgrounds represent collective traumas and racial injustice would, in an ideal world, be a regular occurrence in art museums and schools. [Yet, it is a deeply puritanical and anti-intellectual strain to] putting moral judgment before aesthetic understanding. We may understand artworks to be indicators of racial, gender, and class privilege — I do, often. But presuming that calls for censorship and destruction constitute a legitimate response to perceived injustice leads us down a very dark path. » Coco Fusco

backfire

« I’ve been doing this for about a decade and have never once received an invitation to come to the US, so I have to assume there isn’t much interest. When it’s not negative, (…) it’s not as appealing to the public because there isn’t this great story, this very compassionate story. (…) Planets and stars and futurism and time travel – these types of visions aren’t supposed to come from black guys from Detroit. » Jeff Mills, co-founder of the Underground Resistance collective.

Hack for (y)our rights

AFRICA’SOUT! is a creative dynamic space made to initiate + create radical ideas that change the way we all engage with Africa. Highlighting the urgency of pressing social and political issues, they, like us, believe in ‘Imaginative Activism’. And we are more than thrilled they asked us to collaborate on a short art curation format to be also featured through their instagram : @africasout. <3

UNDERCOVER AFROFUTURISM (2/2)

Last year in october, we subtitled Sun Ra’s unique ‘Space is the Place’ in French. It was about time we share it with you ! / Though, as we are the talkative type it is also the opportunity to share with you few thoughts we developed on a speech in Johannesburg at the occasion of Black Portraitures III Conferences (november 2016).

UNDERCOVER AFROFUTURISM (1/2)

Last year in october, we subtitled Sun Ra’s unique ‘Space is the Place’ in French. It was about time we share it with you ! / Though, as we are the talkative type it is also the opportunity to share with you few thoughts we developed on a speech in Johannesburg at the occasion of Black Portraitures III Conferences (november 2016).

The Importance of Backwardness – 1/2

“Late Countries”,”Underdeveloped Countries”, “South” & “Souths”, “Third World”, “Fourth World”,”Sad Tropics” or “Land of Good Hopes”… and so many other words – more or less politically correct – are used to designate “lagging”, late or “backward” spaces…

The Importance of Backwardness – 2/2

“Late Countries”,”Underdeveloped Countries”, “South” & “Souths”, “Third World”, “Fourth World”,”Sad Tropics” or “Land of Good Hopes”… and so many other words – more or less politically correct – are used to designate “lagging”, late or “backward” spaces…

“Strange Fruit”: from a classic jazz number to modern art

The poem “Strange Fruit” by Abel Meeropol became a notorious song performed by Billie Holiday in the late 1930s. The gesture and interpretation of the great Lady Day anchored “Strange Fruit” in the history of jazz and music. But beyond that, the black and white notes of the song also find, plastically, a dull or crying resonance, in any case – cruelly – evocative.