Arthur Jafa - A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions

Arthur Jafa - A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions
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Publisher : Walther Kanig, Kaln
Total Pages : 848
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ISBN-10 : 3960981589
ISBN-13 : 9783960981589
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Download or read book Arthur Jafa - A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions written by Arthur Jafa and published by Walther Kanig, Kaln. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across three decades the American artist and cinematographer, Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, USA) has developed a dynamic, multidisciplinary practice ranging from films and installations to lecture-performances and happenings that tackle, challenge and question prevailing cultural assumptions about identity and race.Jafa's work is driven by a recurrent question: how might one identify and develop a specifically Black visual aesthetics equal to the 'power, beauty and alienation' of Black music in American culture?Building upon Jafa's image-based practice, this enormous 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 a rich compendium of essays, short stories and poetry that has informed Jafa's artistic practice and which together form an unprecedented resource.With over 30 contributors including: art critic Dave Hickey, philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler, award-winning British artist John Akomfrah, and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hilton Als.Published after the exhibition, Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions at Serpentine Galleries, London (8 June - 10 September 2017), and at the Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (11 February - 25 November 2018).


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