... From “Black Collectivities: A Conference,” held May 3–4, 2013, at Northwestern University’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the University of Chicago’s Arts Incubator. Naomi Beckwith talks with Kodwo Eshun and Anjali Sagar of The Otolith Group about...

...The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun and Anjali Sagar) From “Black Collectivities: A Conference,” held May 3–4, 2013, at Northwestern University’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the University of Chicago’s Arts Incubator. The text proceeds from the point...

... From “Black Collectivities: A Conference,” held May 3–4, 2013, at Northwestern University’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the University of Chicago’s Arts Incubator. Members of the audience ask The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun and Anjali Sagar...

... will cussed by Elvira Dyangani Ose open up a do its best to abide by Antonio Gramsci’s insight Tlarger question about the role of informal social rela- (introduced by the Otolith Group on the opening tions generally as an artistic medium and medium night of the conference...

...: For those of you who were at the ket and wanting to complicate them in a way that Otolith Group’s talk, they said what I thought was suggests that part of the artistic intervention into a critical to the AACM or any formation. They men- place requires, first, an acceptance of existing struc- tioned...

... the night before at Northwest- the varying forms black collaborative practices have ern University’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of assumed and to critically explore their relationship Art with a screening and discussion of The Otolith to and difference from hegemonic Western para- Group’s 2012 film...