Die Dornevögel
Hendrik Hegray @ Motto Berlin
Opening 15.9.2024 from 6pm

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Z.B. Aids a.k.a. Valerie Smith a.k.a H.H. = sounds from the incense burner, active since 1999, solo electronic angina from Paris, France.

Performance at 7pm sharp.

Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography
Staci Robinson
Crown

The authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a “touching, empathetic portrait” (The New York Times) of his life and powerful legacy, fully illustrated with photos, mementos, handwritten poetry, musings, and more.

In Tupac Shakur, author and screenwriter Staci Robinson—who knew Tupac from their shared circle of high school friends in Marin City, California, and who was entrusted by his mother, Afeni Shakur, to share his story—unravels the myths and unpacks the complexities that have shadowed Tupac’s existence. Decades in the making, this book pulls back the curtain to reveal a powerful story of a life defined by politics and art—a man driven by equal parts brilliance and impulsiveness, steeped in the rich intellectual tradition of Black empowerment, and unafraid to utter raw truths about race in America.

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kunstenaar
ANN VERONICA JANSSENS
titel werk
VOORSTELLING VAN EEN RONDE VORM – REPRESENTATION D’UN CORPS ROND
tijdsduur
27 APRIL – 3 JUNI 1996
opening
26 APRIL 1996

FOTOGRAFIE KUNSTWERKEN: Leo van Kampen, D. Bedel,
PH. de Gobert
TEKST: Dirk Pültau
ONTWERP: gebr de Jong ontwerpen, Amsterdam (René Put, Pjotr de Jong)
DRUKWERK: Drukkerij Van den Eynde, Beerse, Belgie UITGAVE: © de Vleeshal Middelburg
OPLAGE: 500 ex.
ISBN: 90-72310-17-9

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ARTMargins Vol. 13.1 ; Socialism In Contemporary African Art

This introductory essay and accompanying special issue of ARTMargins explore the role of African socialisms in contemporary art. Artists looking at Africa’s radical history face the challenge of responding to a generalized amnesia about the continent’s protagonism on intellectual and political radicalism after 1945. Working with under-researched themes, scarce historical records, and apprehensive oral sources, these artists are often tasked to amplify forgotten pasts while simultaneously critiquing the political contingency of historical investigation in global contemporary art. Global contemporary art—largely shaped by the neoliberal transition that followed the very histories explored by these artists—is often shown in its limitation to engage with socialist history critically. Through the authors’ analyses, many artworks nuance discussion of the erasures, fixed narratives, and nostalgia for Africa’s socialist past. Looking to this past, artists attempt to reorganize contemporaneity and its typical disregard for history beyond romanticization. Talho (2014), a work by Mozambican photographer Filipe Branquinho, is analyzed as a case study raising central questions on contemporary artists’ engagement with Africa’s socialist past.

by Álvaro Luís Lima.

February 2024.

Introduction
Socialism in Contemporary African Art: Butchering the End of Time
Álvaro Luís Lima

Articles
“We Need a Lighthouse Philosopher”: Filipa César and Louis Henderson’s Sunstone (2018) and the Portuguese Genealogy of Lens-Based Media
Delinda Collier

Make Me a Picture of the Future: Massinissa Selmani’s 1000 Socialist Villages (2015)
Natasha Marie Llorens

The Mythography of Socialism in Contemporary Angolan Art
Nadine Siegert

The Politics and Aesthetics of Liberation: Revolution and Its Aftermath in Contemporary Artistic Practice from and about Lusophone Africa
Ana Balona de Oliveira

Abstract States: Modernism in Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey
Gemma Sharpe

Artist Project
As the Nile Flows or the Camel Walks
Dawit L. Petros, Black Athena Collective

Document
Introduction to “Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes”
Polly Savage

Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes
Tempo, Polly Savage

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