Taking Stakes in the Unknown : : Tracing Post-Black Art / / Nana Adusei-Poku.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Adusei-Poku, Nana,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Image ; 180
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (218 p.)

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-Pok...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
• Contents
• Acknowledgement
• I. Introduction
• II. Destabilizing Meaning
• 1. The Textures of History
• 2. What is the script of your time?
• 3. Economies of the Double-bind
• III. Historical Entanglements of Black Revolutionary Women
• 1. De-Interpellating Interpellation—Visual Disobediences
• 2. How do I look? (Very good, I must say I am amazed!)
• 3. O my Body, will always remain in question!— Reviewing the Fanonian Moment
• IV. Heterotemporality as a Way of Understanding the Contemporary
• 1. Reclaiming our time
• 2. Riffs on Real Time and the present that is fleeting though captured
• 3. Rewind Selecta
• 4. Hetero-temporality
• V. Paradox Synchronicities
• 1. Contextualization
• 2. IWHISHIWAS or WISHIWASHI ?
• 3. From Leitkultur to Leightkultur
• VI. Abstract Facts
• 1. Enter and Exit the New Negro
• 2. Enter and Exit the New Negro—From Invisible Visibilities
• 3. Enter the New Negro
• 4. Ambiguity as Chance—Abstraction as Means of Identity
• VII. Post-Post-black
• VIII. Bibliography