Adam Pendleton : Who is queen? : a reader / edited by Adam Pendleton with Alec Mapes-Frances ; introduction by Stuart Comer ; with contributions by Adrienne Edwards, Mario Gooden, Danielle A. Jackson, and Lynne Tillman.
"'Who is Queen?' is an evolution of the Black Dada project. . . . 'Who is Queen?' also considers the aesthetics of protest, particularly of the Black Lives Matter and Occupy movements, two of the most significant civil-rights campaigns of the past decade."--Page 7. Catalog accompanying an exhibition held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 18, 2021-January 30, 2022.
Contents:
Audiography and archival exhibition photographs. Mario Gooden -- Introduction / Stuart Comer -- Occupy Time / Jason Adams -- Repitition as a figure of black culture / James A. Snead -- Black awakening in Obama's absence / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor -- Grammar and ghosts: the performative limits of African freedom / Frank B. Wilderson III -- Composition no.19 / Anthony Braxton -- Julius Eastman in his own voice, interview by / David Garland, Julius Eastman -- Dear Angel of Death (excerpt) / Simone White -- From the lab notebooks of the last experiments (excerpt) / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Information (excerpt) / Kynaston McShine -- No one is sovereign in love, interview by Heather Davis and Paige Sarlin, Lauren Berland and Michael Hardt -- George Yancy and Judith Butler -- The other's language / Ornette Coleman and Jacques Derrida -- Radio as music, interview by / John Jessop, Glenn Gould -- Words don't go there / Fred Moten and Charles Henry Rowell -- Ruby Sales: where does it hurt?, interview by / Krista Tippett, Ruby Sales -- Who is Queen? A roundtable / Stuart Comer, Adrienne Edwards, Danielle A. Jackson, Adam Pendleton, and Lynne Tillman -- Black anterior: what can Black Dada do for architecture? / Mario Gooden -- Audiography and archival exhibition photographs.
Summary:
In this primer accompanying Adam Pendleton?s MoMA show, the artist behind ?Black Dada? fuses musical counterpoint with the aesthetics of protest0Adam Pendleton draws on visual culture and historical archives to explore the ways in which context influences meaning. Referencing a broad range of artistic and cultural currents?including Dada, Minimalism and Black Power?Pendleton reconfigures words, forms and images to provoke critical questioning.0Published to accompany Pendleton's installation at the Museum of Modern Art, this reader serves as a primer and handbook to the exhibition and features a number of photocopied textual and visual sources, many of which directly relate to the concept, content and programming of the exhibition. The project questions the notion of the museum as repository and addresses the influence that mass movements, including those of the last decade such as Black Lives Matter and Occupy, could have on the exhibition as form. Drawing on the work of figures as disparate as Glenn Gould, Michael Hardt and Ruby Sales, Who Is Queen? seeks to explore the nexus of abstraction and politics.00Exhibition: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (18.09.2021-30.01.2022).
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