African Atlantic Futures
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...
African Atlantic Futures
- Oct 24, 2020
- 1 min
Aimé Césaire and radical anti-capitalism...video!
Keywords: humanism; racism; Enlightenment; universal humanism; ethnography; Césaire; capitalism
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Jason Allen-Paisant
- Sep 12, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2018
- 5 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2018
- 1 min
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, 2018
- 1 min
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, 2018
- 1 min
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, 2018
- 1 min
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, 2018
- 1 min
The wielding of power
By Zodwa Nyoni Over land Over property Over bodies Over narratives
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African Atlantic Futures
- Sep 1, 2018
- 1 min
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, 2018
- 1 min
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, 2018
- 1 min
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, 2018
- 1 min
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, 2018
- 1 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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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