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

𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘕𝘦𝘸 (𝘰𝘳, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦) 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 (UJ)).⁣

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, Françoise Vergès, Cláudia Regina Alves da Rocha, Thomas Lax, Molemo Moiloa, Khwezi Gule, Geri Augusto, Erica Moiah James, Zamansele Nsele, Thabang Monoa and Saidiya Hartman⁣.