Event overview
Signs of Empire : Thinking the Black Industrialism of Black Audio Film Collective A lecture by Kodwo Eshun
In conversation with Kobena Mercer in 2016, John Akomfrah and Trevor Mathison of Black Audio Film Collective characterised the Collective’s 1982 slide tape work Expeditions: Signs of Empire and Images of Nationality in terms of ‘a sonic back- drop which one could only call “black industrial’. To pursue the notion of a black industrial aesthetic is to rethink the constitution of black audio from within the Collective’s recursive formulation of the becoming of black audio film collectivity. The idea of collectivity can be heard as a cinesonic ecology in which the seditionary effects of punk, the mutational effect of post-punk and the blacklessness of industrial music converge to constitute an aesthetic sociality that works to reconfigure the frontier effects that reproduced the cine-culture of the British Left along the informally segregated racialised aesthetics of twentieth century British cinema.
Image courtesy of Smoking Dogs Films.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 8 Dec 2022 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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