THE IMAGINED NEW (OR WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
HISTORY IS A CATASTROPHE?)
VOLUME I: WORKING THROUGH ALTERNATIVE ARCHIVES:
ART, HISTORY, AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

EDITED BY ANTHONY BOGUES, LEORA FARBER, ZAMANSELE NSELE & SURAFEL WONDIMU ABEBE, 2022

PUBLISHED BY THE VISUAL IDENTITIES IN ART AND DESIGN RESEARCH CENTRE (VIAD), FACULTY OF ART, DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE,
UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG & IWALEWA BOOKS, 306 EARLS COURT, KILLARNEY, JOHANNESBURG

ISBN No: 978-3-947902-25-5

๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜•๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ (๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ, ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ข ๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ) Volume I: Working Through Alternative Archives: Art, History, Africa and the African Diaspora is a collaborative project between the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ, Brown University) and the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD, University of Johannesburg.

This long-term, three part-project provides an interdisciplinary platform for critical exchange and research around African and African Diasporic art practices and curatorship, and the political work of the radical Black imagination.

With contributions by Leora Farber, Anthony Bogues, Surafel Wondimu Abebe, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Riason Naidoo, Franรงoise Vergรจs, Clรกudia Regina Alves da Rocha, Thomas Lax, Molemo Moiloa, Khwezi Gule, Geri Augusto, Erica Moiah James, Zamansele Nsele, Thabang Monoa and Saidiya Hartman.