...Coco Fusco Captain Shit and The Other Allegories of Black Stardom: Work of Chris Ofili Journal of Contemporary African Art...

... international discourse. Copyright © 2010 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2010 beyond the shit storm Chris Ofili’s Retrospective at the Tate Britain Kris Juncker as Chris Ofili reached the middle of his Virgin Mary during...

... of being asked whether he could score men lynched in the southern United States. It also some shit—­every young black man must be a drug suggests the boblee, or an effigy of Judas, that in dealer—­he transformed real shit into something some Caribbean islands is hung from a lamppost else...

... was in reaction to information that the on an imported cracker, we heard a brother scream- New York Public Library (NYPL) was taking bids ing out, “God damn it! This shit ain’t no black art. on moving the collection out of the Schomburg for This ain’t no black art museum! You said this was the purpose...

... the residue of the bira• clad, punk youth smears dog shit on and terror. Though unspoken, she is West, alone makes Coffee Coloured cial trauma in aural...

... Erickson Nka • 79 through the world—is what earned her the title Lady Day, why she’s achieved the status of an icon. Lady Day not only refused to grovel—“grovel” wasn’t in her vocabulary—she kept her head up even if she had to walk through shit.6 Dove’s extreme bluntness turns...

.... '2 Ranjitt Makkuni, "The Crossing Project" in Prix Ars Electronica 2002Cyberarts, "* Jean Fisher, "Toward a Metaphysics of Shit" in Documental 1_ Platform 5: edited by Hannes Leopoldseder and Christine Schoepf (Germany, Hatje Cantz Exhibition Catalogue, 69...

... actions) smash the windows daytime, anytime, together, lets smash the window drag the shit from in there. No money down. No time to pay. Just take what you want. . . .12 Ringgold likely did not know of “Black People!” as she made Die because her painting may have preceded the poem. Her...

... be no boundary marked by a human scale and arcing art market, it also opens a clear con- between sacred and profane, between assemblage of cloth and tape. Both duit back to earlier moments in mod- shit and gold.4 In Mutu’s case, despite installations recalled refuse; neither...

... imagery warrants, Walker's installations are a freak scene a la de Sade. Lick, suck, devour. Prod, poke, puncture. Shit, fuck, bludgeon. They are a psycho-sexual mess of Looney Toons proportion. Needless to say, it is the two hundred year history of a shameful act conducted squarely within our...

... something like 'What is ative moment. Thin brush lines of dark colors form the only remnants of the this shit all about' or 'Where are the curators Someone else claimed that it need to draw; forms like cubes or networks are drawn in what looks like solid- was healthy...

... collaborative drawing, the work returned Boyce the rules and produce nonsense is a form of demili- back to the practice of drawing. While the medium tarizing language. I would go so far as to suggest it was key to her early works of the late 1980s and is like throwing shit at language—vocal excretion...

... was pure shit. Them white folk was throwing up all over they fine clothes and stampeding each other to get away from the stench 2...

..., their backs turned and faces out of the frame. In Simpson's 7 For more on Hammons and hair, see Kellie Jones, "In the Thick of It: most recent films the women are seen whole, sexual, and powerful, as if David Hammons and Hair Culture in the 1970s:' Third Text 44 to say "shit, we don't care who's...

... surface scissor shapes are applied alongside text, some of which read: Whispers fill each room in my ancestral home Chanting down jerk walls. I sit here With the hollow men waiting for the shadow To fall inside I can hear the Drums beat out S .O. S. Save our shit Save our souls Save our struggle In front...

... educate, employ, entertain, and liberate us! simply cursed by the Gods for trying to push that Black Shit — when we know it is America, America the Beautiful, that gives us our salaries, our prizes, Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones, is a our note, hey, even our ideas. writer...

.... ue to grow. That's the sole purpose. Our Not until that man got on television the other day did we know problem is essentially that we live in a that The Bell Curve wasn't shit. Except for the fact that someone culture I cannot put a microphone in front...

... active were working on the Biennial in 1991. co-conspirators with artists, that the institu• The artist was not so important in relation to Perhaps we were too inside of this to realize tion could not separate itself when the shit the object in his practice. I...

.... If you go to the sentence that this guy is quoting, it makes per• dent and metaphysical, and documentary, which is about the excre- fect sense to me and to very skilled editors that I work with, on one mentality of the real world. This idea of shit, caught in the image of hand. But, on the other...

... in the first letter he writes to Henri Calet in 1955, congratulating him on his book La belle lurette (The Beautiful Lurette).13 He writes: You at least have got rid of litter-a-ture. You re on the side of life, on the side of shit. Keep on at it dear Sir. Georges Henein, 10 rue Diacono, Zamalek, Cairo. 14...