The Otolith Group was formed in 2002 by London-based artists Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar. It takes its name from the structure in the inner ear that establishes our sense of gravity and orientation.
Their work engages with archival materials, futurity, and with the histories of transnationality: suggesting a future in which the past is treated as a relic, an idea that has the potential to inform the present and modify the future.
Rather than returning to the past in order to confirm its perceived originality and authenticity, their work instead imagines a a mulititemporal future, while at the same time reminding us of the worldmaking trajectories of the Third Way social movements and decolonial experiments that once linked the people of global majorities in Africa and Asia.
A Long Time Between Suns has been edited as an archival assemblage that links the two stages of the exhibition at Gasworks (February 15 – April 5, 2009) and The Showroom (September 8 – October 25, 2009).
During the exhibition at The Showroom areas of the space was configured to facilitate the final stages of the book’s production.
Designed by Will Holder. It contains an extensive conversation with the artists and new texts by Diana McCarty, Jean Matthee and TJ Demos.
A Long Time Between Suns is published by Sternberg Press in collaboration with The Showroom and Gasworks, London, If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Amsterdam, MACBA, Barcelona, and Fondazione Galleria Civica – Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità di Trento.
