In assembling the analog photographs and objects, I used cases, bolts, a pocket radio, cables, alongside tea stained paper, a handwritten poem to my mother, and other signifiers of my father’s relationship with sound and our Cameroonian heritage.…

And for me, my fantasy is, is maybe a little bit more esoteric and a little bit more personal. I don't think of having magical powers or being able to time travel. I think I really just want to be valued without having to be understood.…

Featuring footage filmed over the past year, this new body of work responds directly to the events of 2020, most notably the Black Lives Matter protests and demonstrations against imperialist monuments, presenting a rethinking of historical narratives.…

Via Gallery 57: Gallery 1957 is delighted to present a new body of work by Oliver Okolo titled I Forgot to Tell You, Now Listen.…

Nevertheless, Kwakua was always enraptured as though hearing it for the first time, ever the indefatigable listener.…

So you’re talking about the piece called Ma. Emmanuel Awuni. Yeah, Ma. Yeah, yeah. MFT. Which you made last year? And is it just a sound piece? Emmanuel Awuni. Yeah. It's just a sound piece. And it's a conversation between me and my mother.…

“i just do it my way” written by LYDIA LUKE. MATERIAL DISCOURSE. Lydia Duke. “i just do it my way” written by LYDIA LUKE. Lydia Duke. lydia luke. Representation is a word that gets used a lot in the arts. A lot.…

This field is kind of an everlasting area of discovery for me. And I just saw it as this thing that I didn't need material for, you know, I didn't need anything else other than my physical body.…

This project sets out to examine the unique issues that naturally arise pertaining to African American women’s conception of beauty and body image. Are You Really Here is an organic collage of cinema verité, performance art, and written word.…

On my mom's side, they migrated to California around the 30s or 40s, which was one of the first waves of migration from Mississippi. And so our families were some of the earliest Black Angeleno pioneers, I should say, or cultural architects in the city.…

Tabita Rezaire is currently birthing AMAKABA, a space for the sciences and arts of the body, the earth and the sky.…

Via Tiwani Contemporary: Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of British artist Charmaine Watkiss at the gallery.…

VIRGIL ABLOH BROKE MY MIND – Celebrating V's Creative Legacy. SPATIAL DISCOURSE. BLACK DISCOURSE + Nordstrom. January 1, 2020. NYC, USA. VIRGIL ABLOH BROKE MY MIND – Celebrating V's Creative Legacy. January 1, 2020. BLACK DISCOURSE + Nordstrom. NYC, USA.…

Via CAAM: For Nikita Gale’s first solo museum exhibition, the Los Angeles-based artist takes the common, shared experience of music concerts as a starting point for questioning more abstract ideas of spectacle, desire, and refusal.…

7th Grl: The way I define fantasy is by digging deep into imagination and taking a chunk out of all the things we wish we could have been like. On the other hand reality is realizing all the beauty we get from nature and humanity.…

What: Black Voices: Friend of My Mind.…

Via Gallery 1957: Gallery 1957, is pleased to present a new body of work by Salah Elmur (Sudanese, b. 1966) entitled “An Anniversary.”…

The first Black history month since the beginning of an almost year-long global lock down due to the COVID-19 pandemic; the first Black history month since the massive uprisings of. Freedom Summer. of 2020. And I’m tired. I think a lot of us are tired.…

In October 2022, Intelligent Mischief and BLACK DISCOURSE launched the first in a series of global live streamed soundclashes in Memphis - to shine a disco ball light on the perpetual issues that Black migrants face around the world.…

The three channels named BORDER - BODY - DANCE, layer found footage of Black migrants crossing European borders and cross continental African dance styles juxtaposed with original footage of performing artist, Dru Ultra, twerking with the Pacific Ocean.…

And then nobody would sit next to me, I swear to God. And I started to use it to my advantage, and I was just seeing how people were terrified. So yeah, back to the song - the boogeyman is gonna get you.…

I love this as a follow up question because honestly, the first thing that comes to mind when you're asked "who are you" are the basics, you know, your name, your age, what do you do?…

VN 3 TM: The first book I want to talk about is titled 'So Long a Letter' and it was written by Senegalise author Mariama Ba.…

The exhibition begins with scenes of rest and vulnerability – in some Muholi is pictured alone, and in others they are embraced by their partner – which jointly foreground the ways in which repose and comfort are indiscriminate needs.…

And that young energy is very present. So then you feel that you're no longer in a place of. And also, a lot of people my age, they have kids and families, and they work. You know, they have a very didactic lifestyle.…

People found my blog posts intriguing and wanted to pick my brain on different topics within tech and then I started consulting on projects and executing their ideas (websites, apps, Instagram filters, tech management at festivals).…

and “We are so displaced, but who is keeping track?” were posed to participants as they worked alongside professional Black archivists from. The Gates Preserve. to print and digitize images from their family archives.…

WATCH – Everything You Wear is Political: Fashion & Black Feminist Politic Salon. SPATIAL DISCOURSE. WATCH – Everything You Wear is Political: Fashion & Black Feminist Politic Salon.…

Via Whitney Museum of American Art: Working Together is an unprecedented exhibition that chronicles the formative years of the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective of Black photographers established in New York City in 1963.…

In the first instance - with 1/5th of all UK tech jobs in London and London's Black population standing at 14% - Black people make up only 3% of the UK tech force, which clearly shows a negative bias in the hiring practices of these companies.…

Streaming – THE MUNDANE AFROFUTURIST MANIFESTO. SONIC DISCOURSE. Streaming – THE MUNDANE AFROFUTURIST MANIFESTO. Have you seen/read/heard Martine Syms’ controversial/moving/grounding. The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto. ?…

Museum of Design Atlanta – THE FUTURE HAPPENED – Designing the Future of Music. MATERIAL DISCOURSE. Museum of Design Atlanta – THE FUTURE HAPPENED – Designing the Future of Music.…

The dynamic stroke of Salifou Lindou reveals the inside of human beings, their strengths and weaknesses. The faces Sejiro Avoseh depicts, distorted due to violence and injustice, are the victims of their time, the martyrs of contemporary history.…

AMY SHERALD - The Great American Fact. MATERIAL DISCOURSE. AMY SHERALD - The Great American Fact. As American as apple pie. What: Amy Sherald -. The Great American Fact. Who: Derrick Adams. Where: Hauser & Wirth, 901 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA.…

Via Karma: Karma is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition of Reggie Burrows Hodges. Hodges creates paintings centered on the human form, imbuing his subjects with the mystery and significance of remembered scenes or recollected stories.…

Highlighting the Career of LUBAINA HIMID. MATERIAL DISCOURSE. Highlighting the Career of LUBAINA HIMID. Who: Lubaina Himid. What: Lubaina Himid. Where: Tate, Bankside London SE1 9TG. When: 25 November 2021 - 3 July 2022.…

A CONSUL COMPANY. 5 RECIPES FROM THE DIASPORA KITCHEN. MATERIAL DISCOURSE. 5 RECIPES FROM THE DIASPORA KITCHEN. Does anybody still take time to cut the okra just so? Do you. respect. rice!…

Where: First Floor Gallery, Karigamombe Centre, 2nd Floor, 53 Samora Machel Avenue, Harare, Zimbabwe. When: 29 October - TBA.…

THE OTHER SIDE OF PENTAPRISM – Group Show. MATERIAL DISCOURSE. THE OTHER SIDE OF PENTAPRISM – Group Show. Who: Melissa Alcena | Tamika Galanis | Jodi Minnis | Lynn Parotti | Leanne Russell | Tiffany Smith. What: The Other Side of Pentaprism.…

Via Tiwani Gallery: “The role of darkness is not to be seen as, or equated with, ignorance, but with the unknown, and the mysteries of the unseen……”. Saul Williams, ‘Coded Language’ (2008)*.…

GOPAL DAGNOGO – The Everyday Established as Sacred. MATERIAL DISCOURSE. GOPAL DAGNOGO – The Everyday Established as Sacred. What: Gopal Dagnogo - The Everyday Established as Sacred. Where: Online, Oh Gallery. - Dakar, Senegal.…

Via Gallery 1957: Gallery 1957, is delighted to present a selection of works by African-American abstract expressionist artist Patrick Alston marking his first solo show in London and first with the gallery.…

Where: First Floor Gallery, Online. When: 31 October - Ongoing. Via First Floor Gallery: Entering his second decade as a professional artist, Mundopa is one of Zimbabwe’s most recognised and successful painters.…

She is associated with giant snakes, for example the anaconda - a species known to love water. Mami Wata’s power lies in her ability to beguile her subjects and grant them riches, but also curse them for eternity.…

Via Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: An astonishing collection of African artwork collected during Britain's first anthropological surveys of early 20th-Century West Africa is on display for the very first time at MAA.…

We also partnered with Limbo and Manju Journal to co-curate a private 5 course Fulani dinner with world renowned Chef Binta for the unique. Architecture Is A Party.…

Where: Online via the Barbican, Choose a Listening Room here. Via the Barbican: Soundhouse is a platform for creative radio and podcasting, and a space for reflections on audio culture.…

A transdisciplinary research project, PANAFEST Archive focuses on four Pan-African festivals of arts and culture held in the 1960s and 70s: the First World Festival of Negro Arts (FESMAN - Dakar 1966), the First Pan-African Cultural Festival (PANAF - Algiers…

Via The Broad: The Broad announces Time Decorated: The Musical Influences of Jean-Michel Basquiat, a three-part video series dedicated to the famed New York City artist.…

Where: The Fire Station Galleries, 82 Peckham Road, London, SE15 5LQ. When: 23rd June - 5th September 2021. Via South London Gallery: Ufuoma Essi, the SLG’s tenth Postgraduate Artist in Residence, is a video artist and filmmaker.…

The Collective for Black Iranians is a creative and critically conscious initiative proposing an Iranian culture that stands fully at its Black and African intersections.…

Via Housing NY: Alexander Richard-Wilson is an African-American contemporary artist living and working in the Denver metropolitan area. Born and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri, (1993) and formally educated at the Art Institute of Chicago.…

After the release of Cleto’s. first Sonic Dissertation. we couldn’t help ourselves but to invite Cleto to curate a unique sound scape for the I SUPPORT BLACK WOMEN, “Everything You Wear is Political: Fashion and Black Feminist Politic” salon.…

Commissioned for the month-long installation in the rear of the Supervsn Studios on Slauson, BLACK DISCOURSE created a one channel looping sound work that explores the sonic identity of Los Angeles as the listener travels from East to West.…

Curated by Ekow Eshun, writer, broadcaster and former Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts London, the exhibition reflects not only on the Black Lives Matter protests, but the existence of a more sustained antipathy to the Black presence that, in…

Via Goodman Gallery: Goodman Gallery Cape Town is proud to open a new space with a group exhibition befitting of its relocation.…

The intention of this essay, and Document 0.5 as a whole, is not an extensive examination of the title, but the first of Visual Construct's contributions to the broader discourse of art and its existential functionality.…

How do we focus on intentional spatial design whose intention is to agitate audiences to move beyond the rigidness of these constructed ideological spaces?…

The impetus for Frequencies came in part from a chance encounter when Murillo visited his own former school as an adult, and noticed the densely graffitied wooden desks.…

This conversation explores the legacy of Black feminisms and transnational organizing in the diaspora. Anielle Franco. Anielle Franco is a Black Feminist from. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil who was born and raised in favela da Maré.…