Thinking Afrofuturism as a Speculative Heresy: A seminar by Kodwo Eshun
Event 2 April 2015
Process image from the offsite ‘Thinking Afrofuturism as a Speculative Heresy’ event at Micheal School of Fine Art. A still frame from ‘In the Year of the Quiet Sun’ (2013), a film by the Otolith group, shows a detail of a postage stamp that features a graphical representation of the sun and the earth.
Artwork detail: The Otolith Group, In the Year of the Quiet Sun (2013). Film. Courtesy and copyright the artists.
Title Thinking Afrofuturism as a Speculative Heresy: A seminar by Kodwo Eshun Dates 2 April 2015 Location Offsite Tagline Thinking Afrofuturism as a Speculative Heresy is an open seminar held by Kodwo Eshun – theorist, writer, artist and co-founder of the Otolith Group. Credits

Venue:
Michaelis School of Fine Arts (UCT)

Special thanks:
Emily Pethick
Nancy Dantas

Partners:
Centre for Curating the Archive (CCA)
The Showroom (London)

"The afternoon will take two parts. To begin with, we’ll play a video from 2010, called Hydro Decapita, which is about 33 minutes or so, and when that finishes, I’ll give a presentation which is called Thinking Afrofuturism as a Speculative Heresy.

And then, hopefully, we can have a conversation that will take as a reference point either some aspects of the video or some aspects of the talk or, what is more compelling to me, your own thinking around the notion of Afrofuturism. Your own critiques, your own ways of thinking of the possibilities, the legacies, the productive potential, the antipathies, the antagonisms, the ambivalences, the entire range of engagements that you bring to what we know as Afrofuturism now. What its future directions might be, what its tendencies might be."

Opening remarks from Kodwo Eshun at Thinking Afrofuturism as a Speculative Heresy.

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