... and Sun Ra) appears in Miles’s apartment, Barboza recalls the youthful- in Diaspora Memory Place: David Hammons/Maria seeming forty- ve- year- old Miles Magdalena Campos- Pons/Pamela Z, edited by Cheryl Finley and Salah M. Hassan (2008). put...

... in a Chicago context, including the musicians’ unions and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, ending with an exceptional example, the Sun Ra Arkestra. Copyright © 2014 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2014 NOTES on CREATIVE MUSIC and COLLECTIVE ACTION...

... Tubman, Amiri Baraka, Nina Simone, Sun Ra, James Baldwin, and Barack Obama are a few of the dominant and instrumental figures in African American history, music, poetry, art, and political activism who appear in his work. Their embodiment rests on the edges of the frame, small, but bold, painted lines...

..., and Tottenham in 1985. This text considers four wire photographs from the Baltimore Sun ’s historical photo archive. Wire photos differed from traditional photographic prints insofar as the wire print resulted from breakthrough technology that allowed a photographic image to be scanned, transmitted over...

... of the black liberation movement’s broader critique of the limits of American society for what Duke Ellington had called “the sun-tanned tenth of the nation.” Copyright © 2011 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2011 David Hammons, The Door (Admissions Office), 1969. Wood, acrylic sheet...

... on the second day of the conference. Corbett and Lewis address the structures of improvisational jazz as well as forms of musical pedagogy and organization, in discussing the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Afrofuturist discourse, and the legacy of Sun Ra. Copyright © 2014 Nka: Journal...

... with a high school marching band and her research into Sun Ra’s time in Chicago. Together the cinematic and the social relational threads highlight the complex roles of a filmmaker who engages her community and examines art’s political and creative stakes. Smith concludes that an artist must sometimes operate...

... from the identities imagined into being in this space that Elsewhere (2008), Luanda is the location for the first exists when art and ideas travel. fictitious space journey to the sun led by an Angolan To this end Kia Henda has started a movement mission. As a result, Angola...

.... Photo: Tom Powel Imaging space exploration and space arms programmes, while a sound recording of the Saturnian voice of Sun Ra leads a repetitive call and response on the prospect of the nuclear obliteration of humanity: melting people buildings radiations make mutations. 7 Within the enclosed space...

..., "On the claim, may have "an underwater expe• these artistic projects do not attempt Way to Market, Nassau." As Thompson rience without getting wet."6 Sun to dislodge the imaginary, i.e., the notes, CoonLey surrounds his posed...

... that are needed are a few palm trees—or a variation thereof— year-old British painter of Nigerian descent, 1998 Turner Prize and a radiant sun. Both are distinctly featured in every one of winner, and one-time New York sensationalist recently made it Ofili's five paintings, which...

... differentiated from natives due to their skin color, from the hostile climate. Moreover, he justified this difference with the alleged racial adeptness to climatic conditions. It has been shown that the greatest enemy of white men in the tropics is the sun, and that the effect of tropical light on such men...

... through his and Damas s discussions, as a way to memorialize his friend. The resulting work, which Edwards titled Homage to the Poet Léon Gontran Damas, implements the original idea that it would be oriented east toward Africa, allowing the sun to rise between two points of the sculpture and then set...

.... as Franz Kafka writes of the creature without presence, a light without One of Ballen’s depressive fore- Odradek in his short story “Troubles of representation: the Thing is an imag- bears is the American photographer a Householder” (1919), “but in its own ined sun, bright and black...

...?” What does that mean for me? I’m probably a lot more like Sun Ra — forgive me, Sun Ra! — in the sense that I’m actually not a “group” guy. I don’t think of myself...

..., 2022. Courtesy of Efie Gallery Singing Dunes, 2022. UAE fils, US pennies, Ghana pesewas, stainless steel, copper wire, wood, 160 ×155 × 9. Courtesy of Efie Gallery Gahiga Nka 155 REVIEW Morning Sun, 2022. UAE fils, US pennies, Ghana pesewas, stainless steel, copper wire, wood, 177.8 × 127 × 9...

... of work I do, I respond, “I proposition of language and cultural reading of your time. I am a painter.” do love that you propose outer space as a frontier for black- ness (whatever that is). Are you revisiting Sun Ra Arkestra’s...

.... When the sun went Chaney. Afro-American. Before Lumumba. Before down, we packed up our jive, drove home to Chi- Jimmie Lee Jackson. Before Selma. Black. Before cago, and the lake breeze cooled the idea from our the Meredith March. Black Power. Before Lutluoi, minds. But that was cool, it was only...

...) and the resul• tant photographic corpus grows from residuals, interstices, intimations in the sun. It is a steady accretion of pervasive affect...

... shielding them from didn’t want to return. A wink. A grin. A look back the hot African sun. Here is a boy mimicking man- at my face, my body. He brought back photos, they hood. Here is a man in a familiar military stance add. Your women, they suggest with a smile and of arms across chest...