{"id":31366,"date":"2013-05-28T02:37:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T02:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31366"},"modified":"2016-02-16T00:08:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T00:08:34","slug":"afrofuturism%e2%80%99s-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31366","title":{"rendered":"Afrofuturism\u2019s Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/whats-on\/tate-modern\/talks-and-lectures\/afrofuturisms-others\" target=\"_blank\">Afrofuturism\u2019s Others<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/visit\/tate-modern\" target=\"_blank\">Tate Modern<\/a><br \/>\nStarr Auditorium<br \/>\nBankside<br \/>\nLondon SE1 9TG<br \/>\n<strong>Saturday, 2013-06-15, 14:00-16:00 BST (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/whats-on\/tate-modern\/talks-and-lectures\/afrofuturisms-others\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.tate.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/grid-normal-8-cols\/public\/images\/detail_ellen_gallagher_deluxe_t12301.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Ellen Gallagher, <em>Deluxe <\/em>2004\u20135 (detail) Mixed media, 60 frames, 38.9 x 32 cm each<br \/>\nTate Photography \u00a9 Tate<\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/art21\/artists\/ellen-gallagher\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen Gallagher\u2019s<\/a> work deconstructs received truths and weaves together propositional narratives, inhabiting spaces where the future collapses into the past, obsolescence into technology and image into text. These are spaces carved out by the cultural aesthetic of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afrofuturism\" target=\"_blank\">Afrofuturism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the context of Gallagher\u2019s work, speakers will explore and complicate readings of Afrofuturism and its influence on contemporary artists\u2019 practices, creating an intricate understanding of the genre and its evolutions. Speakers include <a href=\"http:\/\/zoewhitley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zoe Whitley<\/a> (Independent Curator and panel co-organiser), <a href=\"http:\/\/afamstudies.yale.edu\/faculty\/hazel-v-carby\" target=\"_blank\">Hazel V. Carby<\/a> (Professor of African American Studies and Director of the Initiative on Race Gender and Globalisation at Yale University), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/slade\/people\/academic\/profile\/AMALI63\" target=\"_blank\">Amna Malik<\/a> (Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marymarygallery.co.uk\/index.php\/artists\/lili_reynaud_dewar\/bio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lili Reynaud-Dewar<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This event is related to the exhibition <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=31180\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen Gallagher: AxME<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/whats-on\/tate-modern\/talks-and-lectures\/afrofuturisms-others\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrofuturism\u2019s Others Tate Modern Starr Auditorium Bankside London SE1 9TG Saturday, 2013-06-15, 14:00-16:00 BST (Local Time) Ellen Gallagher, Deluxe 2004\u20135 (detail) Mixed media, 60 frames, 38.9 x 32 cm each Tate Photography \u00a9 Tate Ellen Gallagher\u2019s work deconstructs received truths and weaves together propositional narratives, inhabiting spaces where the future collapses into the past, obsolescence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1196,13,8,10],"tags":[14793,4076,970,967,14794,14727,14792],"class_list":["post-31366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-criticism","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-amna-malik","tag-ellen-gallagher","tag-hazel-carby","tag-hazel-v-carby","tag-lili-reynaud-dewar","tag-tate-modern","tag-zoe-whitley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45660,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31366\/revisions\/45660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}