RESEARCH - EVENT OR WORK
Research available to view related to this exhibition:
Exhibition Catalogue Contributions
Selected Exhibition Images
Related Articles
Audio-Visual Material
These contributions appeared in the "Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic" exhibition Catalogue, (2010: Tate Publishing, London) which was edited by Tanya Barson and Peter Gorschlueter.
The links below will download pdf text only versions:
Tanya Barson, Introduction: Modernism and the Black Atlantic
Petrine Archer, Negrophilia, Diaspora, and Moments of Crisis
Kobena Mercer, Cosmopolitan Contact Zones
Courtney J. Martin, They've All Got Painting: Frank Bowling's Modernity and the Post-1960 Atlantic
Manthia Diawara, A Conversation with Edouard Glissant aboard the Queen Mary II
Roberto Conduru, Bridging the Atlantic and Other Gaps: Artistic Connections between Brazil and Africa - and Beyond
Huey Copeland, Post/Black/Atlantic: A Conversation with Thelma Golden and Glenn Ligon
Click on the links below to view Individual images:
Carrie Mae Weems A Negroid Type / You became a Scientific Profile / An Anthropological Debate / & A Photographic Subject 1995
Candice Breitz Ghost Series #1 1994-6
Candice Breitz Ghost Series #4, 1994-6
Candice Breitz Ghost Series #6, 1994-6
Kara Walker 8 Possible Beginnings or The Creation of African-America, a Moving Picture by Kara E. Walker, 2005
Sonia Boyce From Tarzan to Rambo
Renee Cox River Queen, from Queen Nanny of the Maroons 2004
Isaac Julien Western Union Series No. 1 (Cast No Shadow ) 2007
To explore the exhibition's themes by room with more images click here
Below are links to online articles which feature the Afro Modern exhibition:
Bonnie Greer, 'Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic' The Times, 28 January 2010
Fred D'Aguiar, 'Behind the masks: Afro Modern at Tate Liverpool, The Guardian, 30 January 2010
Jonathan Derbyshire, Continental Drifters, New Statesman, 8 February 2010
From Freetown to Motown: Les Spaine in conversation with Greg Wilson: Join internationally renowned local DJ Greg Wilson, and Les Spaine, who inspired him during in the 70s, to explore the little told story of the development of the thriving black music scene in Liverpool. Recorded: 22 April 2010