Published on the occasion of the exhibition Colored people time, curated by Meg Onli, and organized and presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, February 1-December 22, 2019; and held at MIT List Visual Arts Center, February 7-April 12, 2020. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Reclaiming my time, reclaiming my time / Meg Onli. Acknowledgements / Meg Onli -- Editor's note / Amber Rose Johnson -- Prologue -- Colored people time / Meg Onli -- Colored people's time / Gregory Pardlo -- Afro-modernity: temporality, politics, and the African diaspora / Michael Hanchard -- About time: Huey Copeland in conversation with Meg Onli -- Chapter 2 Mundane futures -- I saw Emmett Till at the grocery store / Eve L. Ewing -- Mundane futures / Meg Onli -- Mundane futures: exhibition views -- The mundane Afrofuturist manifesto / Martine Syms -- Notes on Blacceleration / Aria Dean -- Colored peoples' spacetimes / Michelle M. Wright -- Chapter 2 Quotidian pasts -- Quotidian pasts / Meg Onli and Monique Scott -- 'I take, you take:' anthropology, archives & the colonial gaze / Monique Scott -- Quotidian pasts: exhibition views -- Artificial families: Matthew Angelo Harrison in conversation with Tausif Noor -- Interlude -- Haven't seen you in a minute: Meg Onli in conversation with NourbeSe Philip -- Banal presents / Meg Onli -- Banal presents: exhibition views -- Entanglement experiment: a score for four / Amber Rose Johnson -- The world is unknown / Carolyn Lazard -- To visit with and amongst / Jessica Lynne -- Afterword -- Reclaiming my time, reclaiming my time / Meg Onli.
Summary:
"Over the year of 2019, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania presented the experimental exhibition Colored People Time. Organized by Meg Onli and divided into three distinct chapters-Mundane Futures, Quotidian Pasts, and Banal Presents-the exhibition used the black vernacular phrase "Colored People's Time" (CPT) to explore the ways that dominant notions of time have been used to control and condemn black people across times and spaces. CPT names a political performance by black people to evade, frustrate, and ridicule the enforcement of punctuality and productivity, key disciplinary structures of capitalism. In addition, CPT challenges and disavows the predominant opinion that being "on time" is the only way of being "in time." The artists represented within this exhibition include: Aria Dean, Kevin Jerome Everson, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Carolyn Lazard, Dave McKenzie, Cameron Rowland, Sable Elyse Smith, and Martine Syms; accompanied by historical objects from the Black Panther Party, Sutton E. Griggs, the National Institutes of Health/Getty Images, and the African Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Doubling as a reader on the phrase that inspired the exhibition, Colored People Time includes reprints of seminal essays, newly commissioned writing, poetry, and a performance score ready to be activated in a time to come"--Publisher's website.
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