Builiding a community in search of an Afrosurreal aesthetic and way of living... What is AfroSurreal? Where is it hidden? In the body? The skin?
03/10/2024
My piece for The Brooklyn Rail dropped yesterday regarding the current state of . Pretty cool to share a masthead with Greil Marcus. I'll go into more detail as to why this had to happen now and how I was having my own moment around my work as things develop.
Afrosurrealism Is Dead (And it’s about damn time)
"I remember thinking sometime in 2018—which Afropunk dubbed 'The Year of Afrosurrealism,' and the Guardian ran a piece on Afrosurrealism that didn’t mention me but stole most of its references from my SFMoMA writings—that people were creating works in a genre I created, but from which I had been black-balled in order for the erasure to happen."
May 20th, 2024 marked the fifteenth anniversary of the Afrosurreal Manifesto, published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Before writing the manifesto, I checked in with Amiri Baraka and Google to see if the word had been used as an artistic framework.
