// C&10 PRINT ISSUE // We are so excited to finally launch our first joint C& and C&AL print issue, celebrating the 10th anniversary of C& Magazine with the urgent topic: ECOLOGIES.
This issue features a text and an image booklet.
The text issue invited organizations, artists, and activists from Black and Indigenous perspectives to discuss, contextualize, and reflect on the relationship between neocolonial structures and the climate crisis in their local contexts.
The image issue showcases the great works of these artists: Mae-ling Lokko, Ethel Tawe, Edgar Kanaykõ, Abel Rodríguez, Kolektif 2 Dimansyon, Tiempo de Zafra, Sonia Elizabeth Barrett, Imani Jacqueline Brown and Zayaan Khan.
With texts by Rosa Chávez, Will Furtado, Ama Josephine Budge, Edna Bonhomme, Sonia Elizabeth Barrett, Ann Mbuti, V for 5, Ethel Tawe, Lorena Vicini, Nathalia Lavigne, Serine ahefa Mekoun, Yina Jiménez Suriel in Brazilian Portuguese, English, Haitian Creole, K'iche', Limbum and Spanish.
Read the full issue on https://contemporaryand.com/c-print/
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Inventing Your Own Game// The Abstract Thinking of Mildred Thompson
An artist’s role can have many sides: historian, reporter, scientist, or philosopher. However, their greatness rests on an ability to transform common material and the everyday into expressions of the broader human condition. Exceptional artworks arguably attain a universalism that builds greater empathy across the divides of gender, racial, national, or class difference. This search for transcendence is clear in the work of African American artist Mildred Thompson, as seen in the current exhibition Throughlines, Assemblages and Works on Paper from the 1960s to the 1990s, now on view at Galerie LeLong in New York. Despite her success in Europe, Thompson has been historically overlooked in Black art and modernist circles in the US. The rediscovery and recent exhibitions of Thompson’s work expands our understandings of abstraction and African American art.
Listen to the full podcast here: https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/the-abstract-thinking-of-mildred-thompson/
Read By Mimmo Kenya & Ondieki Studios .
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How Frantz Fanon Has Influenced Generations of Queer Artists
C& writer Will Furtado is inspired by Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks and writes about how the book went on to influence intergenerational Black queer artists despite its shortcomings on gender issues.
Listen to the full podcast here: https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/how-frantz-fanon-has-influenced-generations-of-queer-artists/
Read By Mimmo Kenya & Ondieki Studios .
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Audio Archive Episode #06// How Warhol Erased the Identity of His Black Trans Sitters
Art historian Gürsoy Doğtaş analyses the power imbalances between Warhol and his BiPoC queer and trans sitters of lower Manhattan
Listen to the full podcast here: https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/how-warhol-erased-the-identity-of-his-black-trans-sitters/
Read By Mimmo Kenya & Ondieki Studios .
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Audio Archive Episode #05// Art and Stereotypes:
Playing with Race
We are still stumbling across curated incredibilities taking place in museums and art spaces which make us realise: we are absolutely not there yet.
Listen to the full podcast here: https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/playing-with-race/
Read By @Mimmo Kenya & @Ondieki Studios.
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Audio Archive Episode #04// Felicia Abban: Behind the Scenes
In our latest series – Female Pioneers – we look at female artists from Africa who have made major contributions to art on the continent. This time we reflect on the work of Ghanaian photographer Felicia Abban. In the 1950s she started as her father’s apprentice in a seaside town in the Western Region of Ghana. She would, however, go on to become one of the continent’s most respected photo artists of her day – on the payroll of Kwame Nkrumah and a detailed analyst of her country’s transformation.
Listen to the full podcast here: https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/felicia-abban-behind-the-scenes/
Read By Mimmo Kenya & Ondieki Studios.
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Looking for a new podcast? Check out our Audio Archive: listen to artist interviews, reviews, features, and opinions about crucial topics on contemporary art, narrated by Mimmo Wanjuhi and Ondieki Daniel.
https://contemporaryand.com/audio-archive/
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We're thrilled to announce our first C&AL Commission with Brazilian artist enorê @capirotices !
"holding death close" is a collection of four audiovisual pieces taking shape as a video game playthrough. The series reflects on the themes of death and identity through the lens of an unreliable main character. The work is split into 4 parts, 2 of which we release today and the 3rd and 4th parts next week!
Watch part 1and 2 subtitled in English, Spanish and Portuguese here: https://amlatina.contemporaryand.com/c-commissions/
enorê is a Brazilian multimedia artist currently based in London. Their work revolves around the fluidity of digital media into physicality and back, the modes of translation that arise from these dynamics, and how these relate to ways in which the body processes information.
For C&AL Commissions, artists exclusively present digital works or exhibitions to be experienced and premiered on @contemporaryand.americalatina
bell hooks, the acclaimed and groundbreaking feminist author and activist, has passed on Wednesday aged 69.
The author was surrounded by her close friends and family at home when she died from an illness, a press release from her niece, Ebony Motley, stated.
The American author, professor and social activist whose writings and teachings on race, class, gender, capitalism and a host of other topics helped define intersectional feminist theory and shaped generations of thinkers and readers alike across the world. hooks was born Gloria Jean Watkins on Sept. 25, 1952, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, published over 40 books over the course of her life, including the 1978 poetry collection "And There We Wept" and the 1981 study "Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism", "All About Love", "Reel to Real", "Where We Stand: Class Matters". Her pen name was in dedication to her great-grandmother Bell Blair Hooks.
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#bellhooks left us a colossal intellectual heritage. Rest in power
NOW AVAILABLE: C& ARTISTS’ EDITIONS / 03
Lebohang Kganye
Messages from the Memory Palace, 2021
Digital pigment print on Cotton Rag paper
42.6 x 60cm
Edition of 35, signed and numbered
Launch price €250 excluding VAT
To purchase, contact: [email protected] or for more information visit (https://contemporaryand.com/editions/lebohang-kganye/)
All proceeds directly support the artists and C&’s future program
Immy Mali #6
66 letters – podcast
Listen to the podcast by Immy Mali, the final chapter of her multilayered work 'Letters to my Childhood' for the C& Commissions.
For the last couple of years Immy Mali wrote sixty-six letters to her younger self between the ages of approximately five (or fewer) and twelve years of age. A journey that started as images of events from childhood began to manifest in her work.
All parts are still on view in the C& Commissions on Contemporary And (C&)
Immy Mali – Chapter #05
66 Letters (Part Four)
“This collation of letters is only the first part of my ongoing project Letters to my Childhood, which I will continue to develop as the years go by. I have always been interested in ways of showing work that are not limited to gallery spaces or indeed to any physical space. The exhibition presents the letters as well as animations, images of installations, and sketches that I consider to be responses from Marcue, my childhood self. I find it important to exhibit the letters as they capture thoughts, memories, and viewpoints in a form that is not heavily adulterated by in-depth research into the topics that arise as the writing unfolds.”
The full multilayered experience of 'Letters to my Childhood' is presented in six chapters in the frame of C& Commissions.
C& COMMISSIONS:
Immy Mali : 66 Letters (Part Three)
It all started with some letters.
The artist Immy Mali wrote them as part of a project she has been working on for the last couple of years. Sixty-six letters to her younger self between the ages of approximately five (or fewer) and twelve years of age. A journey that started as images of events from childhood began to manifest in her work.
The multilayered experience of Letters to my Childhood is presented here in six chapters in the frame of C& Commissions. Watch the full videos on our new website
Dive into the next chapter of the multilayered experience of "Letters to my Childhood", the new C& Commission by Immy Mali .
“This collation of letters is only the first part of my ongoing project Letters to my Childhood, which I will continue to develop as the years go by. I have always been interested in ways of showing work that are not limited to gallery spaces or indeed to any physical space. ... "
Immy Mali – 66 Letters (Part one)
ARE YOU FOR REAL
https://ru4real.de/en/#1 is participatory web-based project launching NOW LIVE!
Imagine standing in the micro-studio of a street artist in Luanda, and the next moment you are on a stage with a spoken word poet in Berlin. You step out of that bar in Berlin and find yourself in Lagos and from there move into the abstract digital universe created by an art collective in Jakarta. How are we experiencing „reality“? Where does „realness“ end, if at all?
Initiated by ifa and curated by Julia Grosse, Paula Nascimento and Yvette Mutumba, ARE YOU FOR REAL aims to show global perspectives from different fields. It brings together artists, researchers, filmmakers, writers and coders to share their approaches to „reality“ and the digital.
ARE YOU FOR REAL launches with works by Nolan Oswald Dennis (in collaboration with Noa Mori), Nushin Yazdani & Can Karaalioglu, and contributions by Ibrahim Cissé & Asmaa Jama, João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, Ainslee Alem Robson & Kidus Hailesilassie and Michelle M. Wright. Its platform is designed and coded by Yehwan Song. During the next two years, the artworks will change as new artists join and take over, add, and react to them.
Instagram @areyouforreal_ifa
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Immy Mali #01
Objects Of Memory
It all started with some letters. The artist Immy Mali wrote them as part of a project she has been working on for the last couple of years. Sixty-six letters to her younger self ...
https://contemporaryand.com/candcommissions/01-the-image-series/
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The multilayered experience of 'Letters to my Childhood' is presented in six chapters in the frame of C& Commissions.
