"The Longplayer book recounts the journey from composer Jem Finer's first idea for a thousand-year-long piece of music, in the back of a bus in 1995, to its realisation in two listening posts in Sydney, Australia, and London, England, on 31 December 1999. This unique book combines diagrams, jottings and calculations from Finer's personal notebooks with essays by Kodwo Eshun, Janna Levin and Margaret and Christine Wertheim, who discuss no ..."
"The opening of the new national stadium at Wembley in 2007 was the catalyst for a major new sound and video installation by the leading US artist Paul Pfeiffer commissioned by Artangel, the UK's leading public arts organisation. Celebrating the arguably most vital element in any football stadium - the crowd - The Saints is a lasting document of the evocative artwork of the same name, capturing the excitement and energy of the football c ..."
"A partir de un tipo de imaginación nutrida por los cómics y la ciencia ficción, Kodwo Eshun encuentra en esa música indicios de nuevas formas de vida: shocks sensoriales que nos arrojan hacia mundos que vienen a nosotros desde el futuro ..."
Dan Graham Rock My Religion (Afterall Books / One Work) द्वारा KodwoEshun, Mark Lewis Paperback, 112 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2012 द्वारा The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84638-086-0, ISBN: 1-84638-086-3
"Dan Graham's Rock My Religion (1982--1984) is a video essay populated by punk and rock performers (Patti Smith, Jim Morrison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Eddie Cochran) and historical figures (including Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers). It represented a coming together of narrative voice-overs, singing and shouting voices, and jarring sounds and overlaid texts that proposed a his ..."
"The exhibition "In the Year of the Quiet Sun" revisits moments from the grand political project of mid century Pan-Africanism, envisioned by revolutionaries such as W.E.B Du Bois, George Padmore, Frantz Fanon and Kwame Nkrumah as the total liberation of the African continent from Europe, through the building of a United States of Africa.
One of the key works in the exhibition is the installation Statecraft. In this installation the sho ..."
The Ghosts of Songs(1st Edition) The Film Art of the Black Audio Film Collective (Changing Media, Changing Europe) द्वारा KodwoEshun, Anjalika Sagar, Anjalika Sagar Eshun Hardcover, 256 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2007 द्वारा Liverpool University Press Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-014-0, ISBN: 1-84631-014-8
""The Ghosts of Songs" is the first book-length exploration of the work of the Black Audio Film Collective. The collective, founded in 1982 and dissolved in 1998, comprised John Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul, Reece Auguiste, Avril Johnson, Trevor Mathison, Edward George and David Lawson, and for sixteen years their films addressed the social, political and racial crises of Thatcher's Britain and beyond. However, it would be limiting their achiev ..."
"What were the conditions of possibility for art and music-making before the era of neoliberal capitalism? What role did punk play in turning artists to experiment with popular music in the late 1970s and early 1980s? And why does the art and music of these times seem so newly pertinent to our political present, despite the seeming remoteness of its historical moment? Focusing upon the production of post-punk art, film, music, and publis ..."
Dan Graham Rock My Religion (AFTERALL) द्वारा KodwoEshun Hardcover, 112 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2012 द्वारा The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84638-085-3, ISBN: 1-84638-085-5
"Dan Graham's Rock My Religion (1982--1984) is a video essay populated by punk and rock performers (Patti Smith, Jim Morrison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Eddie Cochran) and historical figures (including Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers). It represented a coming together of narrative voice-overs, singing and shouting voices, and jarring sounds and overlaid texts that proposed a histori ..."
"Against What? Against Whom? is a monograph about the author, film maker and video artist Harun Farocki. Its the first book about Farocki that is neither a purely academic publication nor an exhibition catalogue. it brings together the most diverse of themes, tonalities and approaches: alongside a complete filmography and list of installations, there are 21 contributions that take a discursive (or use drawings to) look at Farocki's compl ..."
"Nightcleaners (1975), by the Berwick Street Film Collective, has long been recognized as a landmark of British experimental cinema. Alongside its companion film ’36 to ’77 (1978), it pioneered a form as radical as the Collective’s politics. The Berwick Street Film Collective was formed in 1970 and produced feature documentaries until around 1980. Influenced in part by filmmakers such as Godard and Marker, its films dealt with some of th ..."
"What were the conditions of possibility for art and music-making before the era of neoliberal capitalism? What role did punk play in turning artists to experiment with popular music in the late 1970s and early 1980s? And why does the art and music of these times seem so newly pertinent to our political present, despite the seeming remoteness of its historical moment? Focusing upon the production of post-punk art, film, music, and publis ..."
""The British-Ghanaian artist creates compelling character studies of people who don't exist, reflecting her twin talents as a writer and a painter" -Zadie Smith, the New Yorker This volume gathers around 60 works by British artist and ..."
"Designs for public buildings by one of the most sought after contemporary architects. David Adjaye's designs emphasize the experience as much as the function of architecture. Known for domestic projects that explore the unfolding of interior space, Making Public Buildings focuses for the first time on Adjaye's engagement with public spaces. Throughout his practice Adjaye has combined the sensual and emotive with a conceptual approach t ..."
More Brilliant Than the Sun Adventures in Sonic Fiction द्वारा KodwoEshun Paperback, 224 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 1999 द्वारा Interlink Pub Group Inc Deluxe Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-7043-8025-7, ISBN: 0-7043-8025-0
"More Brilliant than the Sun is a machine for travelling at the speed of thought, a probe for drilling into new levels of possibility space. Its mission is to undermine the concepts this present has of "Health" and "Culture" and to excite mockery and hatred against these hybrid monsters of concepts."
"Practising Art Internationally aims to detach the notion of international art practice from a rhetoric of globalization and an exclusive focus on the contemporary. It traces a new genealogy of trans-local practices and methods, presenting the visual arts as part of a longer history of contact between individuals motivated by shared struggles, friendship and solidarity.The publication explores what it means to “practice internationally” ..."
"The classic work on the music of Afrofuturism, from jazz to jungle More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction is one of the most extraordinary books on music ever written. Part manifesto for a militant posthumanism, part journey through the unacknowledged traditions of diasporic science fiction, this book finds the future shock in Afrofuturist sounds from jazz, dub and techno to funk, hip hop and jungle. By exploring the m ..."
"The archive of the Photo Service of the President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia contains nearly 300,000 photographs documenting Josip Broz Tito’s public and private activities from 1948 until his death in 1980. It is housed today in the Museum of Yugoslav History (MYH) in Belgrade. In 2012, the MYH curatorial staff initiated Travelling Communiqué, a title taken from the first conference of the Non-Aligned Movement in B ..."
PLUS BRILLANT QUE LE SOLEIL AVENTURES EN FICTION SONORE द्वारा KODWOESHUN Softcover, प्रकाशित 2023 द्वारा Philharmonie De Paris ISBN-13: 979-10-94642-62-7, ISBN:
"Seeking to account for the new conditions of production and distribution that appeared at the end of the 20th century, Sonic Process provides an analysis of electronic music through its history, social context, and otherness. Also on offer is a consideration of the relationship between electronic music and visual art over the past 10 years, an inventory of terms, and a range of interdisciplinary essays."