Kenyanthropus

Benjamin Patterson

Tavia — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:47:56 +0000

Dedication Ceremony for the Museum of the Subconscious 1996

Learn Disco

Tavia — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:43:23 +0000

From Adrian Piper’s website:

http://folk.uio.no/tsandvik/fun/learn_disco.mpg

Adrian Piper I

Tavia — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:06:46 +0000

Adrian Piper.com

Calling Card, circa.1986-1990

More calling cards:

Cornered (1988):

Romare Bearden Projections Collage (1964):

Black Abjection

Tavia — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:07:22 +0000

Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1914

Breaking Kunta “Roots” 1976

Moral economies of the Black Atlantic

Tavia — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:59:28 +0000

Dialectic of freedom and constraint on the assembly line

Chuck Berry “No Particular Place to Go” (1964)

Bob Marley and the Wailers “Night Shift” (Live in New York 1974)

R. Kelly “You Remind Me of Something” (1995)

50 Cent and the geopolitics of conflict minerals

I want to be ready

Tavia — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:04:06 +0000

Palladium Mambo Dancers

Contact Improvisation “Shute” at John Weber Gallery, New York City, 1972. Performers: Steve Paxton, et al.

Alvin Ailey Company “Revelations” (filmed performance 1982): “I Want to Be Ready” 6:50

From Mambo to Hip Hop 1:00

Victor Quijada, Jayko Eloi and K-Os, “Man I Used to Be” extended dance remix

The Arabs in Africa

Tavia — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 04:26:43 +0000

On “African mercenaries” in Libya:

Are the men we see pictured here perpetrators of state-sponsored violence, are they victims of racism, or is it possible that both of these things may be true at the same time? Are they being attacked in retaliation or in the course of a battle, or are they taken for mercenaries simply on the basis of their skin color? Is this just one more instance of non-citizens falling victim to a conflict that is not their own?

In the Break

Tavia — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:23:38 +0000

Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln “Driva Man/Protest”

Cecil Taylor “Chinampas”

James Baldwin, “The Price of the Ticket”

Black Representational Space

Tavia — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:31:22 +0000

Early covers of the Crisis magazine:

Survey Graphic issue on “The New Negro” (1925)

The Racial Mountain, circa 2011

Tavia — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:16:23 +0000

Kehinde Wiley, Puma collaboration for World Cup 2010

Janelle Monae, “Many Moons” video, 2008

Kalup Linzy on General Hospital, 2010