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Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind

“Next year Leslie Parker Dance Project is using Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity by Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Wildseed by Octavia Butler as the texts inspiring their new Momentum Dance Performance. Leslie Parker Dance Project…

Bringing Black Feminist Theory Into Everyday Practice | WUNC

“She identifies as a community-accountable scholar and puts that identity into practice by intentionally bringing scholarly ideas into non-academic settings. This manifests in online educational projects like ‘Eternal Summer of The Black Feminist Mind,’ which creates…

S A V V Y • Colonial Neighbours

“Objects as intermediary of entangled histories Following the concept of “history as entanglement” (Conrad & Randeria) the project aims at breaking historical dichotomies and drawing a more differentiated picture of current Lebenswelten in Berlin. Objects, everyday…

Decolonial Documents: Part Two | Frieze

“Okwui Enwezor’s art criticism from the 1990s forms an essential part of any primer on decoloniality. By turns angry and self-possessed, as interested in big ideas as the minutiae of the particular, his early writings read…

The Museum in Reverse? Decolonizing the Ethnographic Collection : Open Space

In November 2014 the curator Clémentine Deliss delivered a startling address at the Museu d’art Contemporani de Barcelona. At the time Deliss was the director of the Weltkulturen Museum (Museum of World Cultures) in Frankfurt, an…

St. Louisans call for a boycott of CAM’s newest exhibit, ‘Direct Drive,’ depicting black bodies

“Schools take Black children to this gallery, when they see these images, they are being told that their bodies, their history and their stories are disposal and always up for use by any privileged white man…

Photographer Imagines the Dreams of Fellow Syrian Refugees

Imam spent weeks in a Lebanese camp near the Syrian border, talking to people about their stories, hopes, and fears. Instead of taking documentary-style photographs, he staged theatrical compositions inspired by the subjects’ stories. With the subjects’…

Sarah Jane Norman responds to Marina Abramovic – AWAYE! – ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Marina Abramovic is a major public figure, but other than that, she is not special. She is just another white person who has never had to think too hard about a lot of things because that’s…

Racism is present: unpacking a social media storm – AWAYE! – ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

In what she says was an uncorrected proof from her forthcoming memoir the world-renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic describes Aboriginal people as “dinosaurs”. Not only that, Aboriginal people – as she encountered them in the desert…

New Museum Connects History of Slavery to Mass Incarceration – Next City

New museum in Montgomery, Alabama, will connect the history of African-American enslavement in the U.S. to modern-day issues of mass incarceration and police violence. The Equal Justice Initiative, which litigates on behalf of prisoners denied fair…

‘The racist is present’: Marina Abramovic slammed for Aboriginal comments

Controversial performance artist Marina Abramovic has come under fire for a passage in her new book which says indigenous Australians are “dinosaurs” and “look terrible”. Tags: dripfeed_critical_decolonize

Ilbijerri celebrates #indigenousdads in Katie Beckett’s father-daughter comedy

Katie Beckett was rehearsing the play she wrote about her dad, Les, when the furore erupted over a “racist” Bill Leak cartoon in The Australian that depicted a drunk Indigenous man. Tags: dripfeed_critical_decolonize

Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde – The Culture

The Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts republished this conversation between iconic Black thinkers James Baldwin and Audre Lorde on their Tumblr page. The conversation took place at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA and was was…

Tribunal – a play about the parallels between indigenous and asylum seeker experiences

“Tribunals are places where you settle disputes. In South Africa, the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” heard evidence about the systematic abuses of apartheid. Now a youth theatre group in Western Sydney has teamed up with the…

‘Hero’: Fawn Rogers Confronts Andrew Jackson and America’s Treatment of Native Americans

In “Hero,” bills with Jackson’s image are destroyed by a creature that in non-Western symbolism is revered for its industry, intelligence and cleverness. The rat in “Hero” also brings to mind James Clavell’s anti-hero “King Rat”…

My art is my culture, my culture is my art: Indigenous women on the experiences of making art in a contemporary context – Catherine Zengerer

A recent Vivid ideas talk organised by Women in the Arts in Sydney gathered together contemporary Aboriginal women who are innovators in the arts to reflect on their experiences as Indigenous women practicing in a contemporary context. They say…

The Indigenous memory code – ABC Radio National

Have you ever wondered how ancient indigenous cultures maintain so much information about the thousands of species of plants and animals—without writing it down? Traditional Aboriginal Australian songlines are key to a powerful memory technique used…

Art We Heart: Nicole Monks | FBi Radio

In Aboriginal culture, there is no one word for art. All cultural forms exist together in the everyday; art, dance, music and design. You paint the body and then you dance to the music. It is a…