African Atlantic Futures
Frightened by the host: story
Sat in the Chapeltown library’s cafe, eating his lunch. Empty. Except for two women sitting behind him. African accents, ambient, but...
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African Atlantic Futures
Feb 81 min read
unavailable zones
On the photos he’s taken, everything is slippery or slick. The photos have the brightness of rain water, of reflective surfaces. The...
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African Atlantic Futures
Feb 72 min read
A Search for 'the loving father'
‘At the dawn of individuation a life raft thus appears on the horizon of the ‘oceanic feeling’: the loving father’—Julia Kristeva A path...
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African Atlantic Futures
Jan 13, 20232 min read
My 'second life of seeing'
5 January 2023 I’m watching men in high viz jackets dismantle the holiday winter wonderland, with all of its lights in the lake and...
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African Atlantic Futures
Dec 1, 20221 min read
Hutchinson Heinemann (Penguin Books) have acquired my creative nonfiction book Scanning the Bush!
My debut prose book is part memoir, part history, part auto-ethnography, and 100% storytelling. It's about my people's relationship to...
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African Atlantic Futures
Oct 27, 20221 min read
'The Natural World', Cincinnati Art Museum
I've been honoured to collaborate with curator Nathaniel Stein and photographers David Hartt and John Edmonds on the exhibition 'The...
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African Atlantic Futures
Nov 14, 20202 min read
Nouvel article sur le théâtre en Haïti
"Vers un théâtre du corps habité: Actualisation scénique du corps et de la guerre dans Chemin de fer de Julien Mabiala Bissila."Nouvelles...
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Jason Allen-Paisant
Sep 12, 20203 min read
New article: "Unthinking philosophy: Aimé Césaire, poetry, and the politics of Western knowledge"
My latest article, "Unthinking philosphy: Aimé Césaire, poetry, and the politics of Western knowledge", was just published here in...
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African Atlantic Futures
Oct 8, 20185 min read
Conference round-up
The interdisciplinary conference ‘Memory & Performance in African-Atlantic Futures’ was held at the University of Leeds from 31 August to...
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African Atlantic Futures
Sep 3, 20182 min read
Memory & Performance: Creativity and Critique
By Liam Wilby Across the three days of the conference it has seemed to me that there has been a common thread that has run throughout –...
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Liam Wilby
Sep 3, 20182 min read
Memory & Performance: Creativity and Critique
Across the three days of the conference it has seemed to me that there has been a common thread that has run throughout – the necessity...
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African Atlantic Futures
Sep 2, 20181 min read
Call/response
As a theatre practitioner, I have responded to some of what we have heard about in the past 3 days: · How do we work across...
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African Atlantic Futures
Sep 1, 20181 min read
known knowns and known unknowns
- Aylwyn Walsh riffing off of Donald Rumsfeld questions that arise on watching Helle Stenum's documentary film We Carry it Through Us:...
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African Atlantic Futures
Sep 1, 20181 min read
performing utopia
Performance Allows thinking through and with the body Brings feeling into the archive Makes as/if Move from potential to represented...
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African Atlantic Futures
Sep 1, 20181 min read
across and between
questions that cut across times across and between around and through loss and recuperation Call and...
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African Atlantic Futures
Sep 1, 20181 min read
The wielding of power
By Zodwa Nyoni Over land Over property Over bodies Over narratives
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African Atlantic Futures
Sep 1, 20181 min read
In response to the Arrivals Legacy Project
By Zodwa Nyoni 1. RECOVERY I am Cut from the root Trying to make sense Recreating myself here Going back to see what is there A...
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African Atlantic Futures
Sep 1, 20181 min read
tensions/ oppositions in flight
- Aylwyn Walsh Feeling through tensions light and what is unlit what is remembered but what should not have to be remembered, because it...
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African Atlantic Futures
Aug 31, 20181 min read
a mid afternoon poem/ provocation
Thinking with our presenters about fugitivity, refusal, flight and the limits of representation, I'm reminded of a poem by Fred Moten:...
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African Atlantic Futures
Aug 31, 20181 min read
Welcome provocations
-by Aylwyn Walsh In Jason Allen-Paisant’s welcoming address he puts forward the provocations that underpin the call for papers: How...
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African Atlantic Futures
Aug 31, 20181 min read
Live Blogging African-Atlantic Futures
The conference is being documented via live blogging by playwright and poet Zodwa Nyoni and scholar/ theatre practitioner Dr Aylwyn...
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African Atlantic Futures
Aug 23, 20182 min read
Memory, performance and the future: A different conversation
The interdisciplinary conference ‘Memory & Performance in African-Atlantic Futures’ brings together artists, curators, academics and...
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