Under Zero: A Cine-geography of Militant Gestures
UCL Department of Art History
The Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art presents:
The Otolith Group, A Lecture-Performance on the Militant Image
Following the lecture-performance, the artists Kodwo Eshun and Anjali Sagar will be joined by TJ Demos, Stephanie Schwartz, and Paolo Magagnoli in discussion.
Suggested Reading
James Baldwin, “No Name in the Street “(1972) in The Price of the Ticket: Collected Non-Fiction 1948-1985, London: Michael Joseph, 1985
Eldridge Cleaver, “The Allegory of the Black Eunuchs” in Soul on Ice, Panther Books, 1970.
Kodwo Eshun and Ros Gray, “The Militant Image: A Ciné-Geography,” Third Text 108, 25/1 (January 2011), 1-12.
Julio Garcia Espinosa, “For An Imperfect Cinema” (1969) in Twenty Five Years of the New Latin American Cinema edited by Michael Chanan, London: British Film Institute, 1983. Available at http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC20folder/ImperfectCinema.html
Che Guevera, ”Socialism and Man in Cuba” (March 1965) available at: http://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1965/03/man-socialism.htm
Che Guevara, “Message to the Tricontinental” (Havana, April 16, 1967), available at: http://www.marxsite.com/guevara.htm -
Leroi Jones, Black People! (1967) in The Leroi Jones/ Amiri Baraka Reader edited by William J. Harris, Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1991.
Kaja Silverman and Harun Farocki, “I Speak, Therefore I’m Not: Gay Knowledge/ Le Gai Savoir” in Speaking about Godard (New York University Press, 1998).
Hito Steyerl, “In Defense of the Poor Image,” e-flux (2011), available at: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/94
UCL Department of Art History
The Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art presents:
The Otolith Group, A Lecture-Performance on the Militant Image
Following the lecture-performance, the artists Kodwo Eshun and Anjali Sagar will be joined by TJ Demos, Stephanie Schwartz, and Paolo Magagnoli in discussion.
Suggested Reading
James Baldwin, “No Name in the Street “(1972) in The Price of the Ticket: Collected Non-Fiction 1948-1985, London: Michael Joseph, 1985
Eldridge Cleaver, “The Allegory of the Black Eunuchs” in Soul on Ice, Panther Books, 1970.
Kodwo Eshun and Ros Gray, “The Militant Image: A Ciné-Geography,” Third Text 108, 25/1 (January 2011), 1-12.
Julio Garcia Espinosa, “For An Imperfect Cinema” (1969) in Twenty Five Years of the New Latin American Cinema edited by Michael Chanan, London: British Film Institute, 1983. Available at http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC20folder/ImperfectCinema.html
Che Guevera, ”Socialism and Man in Cuba” (March 1965) available at: http://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1965/03/man-socialism.htm
Che Guevara, “Message to the Tricontinental” (Havana, April 16, 1967), available at: http://www.marxsite.com/guevara.htm -
Leroi Jones, Black People! (1967) in The Leroi Jones/ Amiri Baraka Reader edited by William J. Harris, Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1991.
Kaja Silverman and Harun Farocki, “I Speak, Therefore I’m Not: Gay Knowledge/ Le Gai Savoir” in Speaking about Godard (New York University Press, 1998).
Hito Steyerl, “In Defense of the Poor Image,” e-flux (2011), available at: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/94
