African Atlantic FuturesNov 14, 20202 minNouvel 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...
African Atlantic FuturesOct 24, 20201 minAimé Césaire and radical anti-capitalism...video!Keywords: humanism; racism; Enlightenment; universal humanism; ethnography; Césaire; capitalism
Jason Allen-PaisantSep 12, 20203 minNew 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...
African Atlantic FuturesOct 8, 20185 minConference round-upThe interdisciplinary conference ‘Memory & Performance in African-Atlantic Futures’ was held at the University of Leeds from 31 August to...
African Atlantic FuturesSep 3, 20182 minMemory & 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 –...
Liam WilbySep 3, 20182 minMemory & Performance: Creativity and CritiqueAcross the three days of the conference it has seemed to me that there has been a common thread that has run throughout – the necessity...
African Atlantic FuturesSep 2, 20181 minCall/responseAs a theatre practitioner, I have responded to some of what we have heard about in the past 3 days: · How do we work across...
African Atlantic FuturesSep 1, 20181 minknown 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:...
African Atlantic FuturesSep 1, 20181 minperforming utopiaPerformance Allows thinking through and with the body Brings feeling into the archive Makes as/if Move from potential to represented...
African Atlantic FuturesSep 1, 20181 minacross and betweenquestions that cut across times across and between around and through loss and recuperation Call and...
African Atlantic FuturesSep 1, 20181 minThe wielding of powerBy Zodwa Nyoni Over land Over property Over bodies Over narratives
African Atlantic FuturesSep 1, 20181 minIn response to the Arrivals Legacy ProjectBy 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...
African Atlantic FuturesSep 1, 20181 mintensions/ 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...
African Atlantic FuturesAug 31, 20181 mina mid afternoon poem/ provocationThinking with our presenters about fugitivity, refusal, flight and the limits of representation, I'm reminded of a poem by Fred Moten:...
African Atlantic FuturesAug 31, 20181 minWelcome provocations -by Aylwyn Walsh In Jason Allen-Paisant’s welcoming address he puts forward the provocations that underpin the call for papers: How...
African Atlantic FuturesAug 31, 20181 minLive Blogging African-Atlantic FuturesThe conference is being documented via live blogging by playwright and poet Zodwa Nyoni and scholar/ theatre practitioner Dr Aylwyn...
African Atlantic FuturesAug 23, 20182 minMemory, performance and the future: A different conversation The interdisciplinary conference ‘Memory & Performance in African-Atlantic Futures’ brings together artists, curators, academics and...