Title & Author:

Living with ghosts : a reader : writings on coloniality, decoloniality, hauntology, and contemporary art / edited by KJ Abudu.

Publication:

London : Pace Publishing, [2022]
©2022

Description:

160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Excerpt from On the postcolony / Achille Mbembe -- Excerpt from Specters of Marx : the state of the debt, the work of mourning and the new international / Jacques Derrida -- Epilogue : A history of Pan-African Revolt / C.L.R. James -- Myths of decolonization and illusions of freedom / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni -- Cinematising the ghostly postcolonial timescape : John Akomfrah & Black Audio Film Collective / KJ Abudu -- Bouchra Khalili and KJ Abudu in conversation -- Lives of the past : annotations on Abraham Oghobase's Constructed Realities / Emmanuel Iduma -- Sylvia Wynter : what does it mean to be human? / Walter D. Mignolo -- Excerpt from Haunting and thinking from the Utopian margins : conversation with Avery F. Gordon / Avery F. Gordon -- Towards African and diasporic futures : the guidance of ghosts and that which animates / Adjoa Armah -- For the time being : verve & vertigo in the nowhere of modernity / Joshua Segun-Lean -- Further reading -- List of works -- Biographies.

Exhibitions:

Catalog of the exhibition held at Pace Gallery, London, July 8-August 5, 2022.

Summary:

"This reader stems from the accumulation of four years of research, beginning as a critical theoretical project, which then morphed into an exhibition, and now sits somewhere between (and yet is in excess of) the two. Whether realised in its written or gallery-bound formats, Living with Ghosts explores the ways the unresolved traumas of Africa's colonial past and its incomplete project of decolonisation continue to haunt the global present."--Introduction.
"Featuring republished texts by seminal theorists of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as newly commissioned essays by some of today's leading artists and writers, Living With Ghosts: A Reader is an important, thought-provoking work published to coincide with the exhibition guest curated by KJ Abudu at Pace in London. Living With Ghosts explores the ways the unresolved traumas of Africa's colonial past, and its unfulfilled project of decolonisation, continue to haunt the present global order. The reader further expands on these complex ideas through philosophical, historical, and literary approaches. Reprinted texts by thinkers such as Achille Mbembe, C.L.R. James, and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni explore the historical experiences of the African postcolony and the problematics of decolonisation. Meditations on artists including John Akomfrah and Abraham Oghobase provide engaging entry points to their multi-layered artistic practices. Also featured are images of artworks in the exhibition and an in-depth conversation between Bouchra Khalili and KJ Abudu"-- Provided by publisher.

Biographical note:

KJ Abudu is a curator and critic based between New York, London, and Lagos. Informed by anti/post/de-colonial theory, queer theory, African philosophy, and Black radical thought, his writings and exhibitions focus on critical art and intellectual practices from the global South responding to the world-historical conditions produced by colonial modernity.

ISBN:

9781948701594 paperback
1948701596 paperback

Subject:

Derrida, Jacques
Postcolonialism and the arts Exhibitions.
Decolonization in art Exhibitions.
Decolonization Africa Exhibitions.
Arts Political aspects Africa Exhibitions.
Autonomy and independence movements Philosophy Exhibitions.
Décolonisation dans l'art Expositions.
Décolonisation Afrique Expositions.
Art Aspect politique Afrique Expositions.
Autonomie et mouvements indépendantistes Philosophie Expositions.
Postcolonialisme et arts Expositions.
Arts Aspect politique Afrique Expositions.
Art Political aspects
Decolonization
Decolonization in art
Africa

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
interviews.
Exhibition catalogs
Interviews.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Abudu, KJ, editor, curator, interviewer.
Mbembe, Achille, 1957- contributor.
Derrida, Jacques, contributor.
James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989, contributor.
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J., contributor.
Iduma, Emmanuel, contributor.
Mignolo, Walter, contributor.
Gordon, Avery, contributor.
Armah, Adjoa, contributor.
Segun-Lean, Joshua, contributor.
Khalili, Bouchra, 1975- interviewee.
Pace Gallery (London, England), host institution.

Writings on coloniality, decoloniality, hauntology, and contemporary art

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317986
Call No.: 317986
Copy: 1
Status: External loan