In 2001, Freestyle, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced both a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious yet knowingly opaque term post-black to a pre 9-11 and pre-Obama world. In Taking Stakes in the Unknown, Nana Adusei-Poku contextualizes the term post-black in its socio-historical and cultural context. Whilst exploring its present legacy and past potential, she examines works by artists who were defined as part of the post-black generation: Mark Bradford, Leslie Hewitt, Mickalene Thomas and Hank Willis Thomas – and, by expanding the scope of the definition, the Black German artist Philip Metz.
Price: $45.00
Pages: 218
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Image
Publication Date:
11 January 2022
Trim Size: 9.45 X 6.10 in
ISBN: 9783837652949
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
ART / Criticism & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Nana Adusei-Poku (PhD) is a Senior Academic Advisor and Luma Fellow at the Center for Curatorial Studies and Contemporary Art at Bard College. Her main research interests are cultural shifts and how they articulate themselves through the intersections of art, politics, and popular culture; artistic productions from the Black diasporas and critical pedagogy in relationship to decolonial aesthetics. She has articulated these interests through her academic work, the development of performative Lectures & Workshops as well as curatorial projects. Her articles have been published in Nka- Journal of Contemporary African Art, eflux, Kunstforum International, Flashart!, L'Internationale, multidudes, Darkmatter, Afterall and Yale Theater Magazine a.o. and translated into English, German, Portuguese, French and Swedish.
Frontmatter 1
Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek 4
Contents 5
Acknowledgement 7
I. Introduction 9
1. The Textures of History 41
2. What is the script of your time? 42
3. Economies of the Double-bind 59
1. De-Interpellating Interpellation—Visual Disobediences 89
2. How do I look? (Very good, I must say I am amazed!) 92
3. O my Body, will always remain in question!— Reviewing the Fanonian Moment 104
1. Reclaiming our time 113
2. Riffs on Real Time and the present that is fleeting though captured 116
3. Rewind Selecta 123
4. Hetero-temporality 125
1. Contextualization 129
2. IWHISHIWAS or WISHIWASHI ? 134
3. From Leitkultur to Leightkultur 143
1. Enter and Exit the New Negro 155
2. Enter and Exit the New Negro—From Invisible Visibilities 160
3. Enter the New Negro 165
4. Ambiguity as Chance—Abstraction as Means of Identity 169
VII. Post-Post-black 183
VIII. Bibliography 193
