Kodwo Eshun

Kodwo specialises in art and critical theory, referencing post-war liberation movements and contemporary musicality.

Staff details

Kodwo Eshun

Position

Lecturer In Aural And Visual Culture

Department

Visual Cultures

Email

k.eshun (@gold.ac.uk)

Website

http://otolithgroup.org/

Teaching

MRes and PhD in Visual Cultures

Publications and research outputs

Book

Eshun, Kodwo. 2018. More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (2nd edition). Verso. ISBN 978-1784786724

Eshun, Kodwo. 2012. Dan Graham: Rock My Religion. London: Afterall Books. ISBN 978-1-84638-085-3

Eshun, Kodwo and Sagar, A.. 2007. The Ghosts of Songs: The Film Art of the Black Audio Film Collective. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781846310140

Edited Book

Barcelos, Lendl; Colquhoun, Matt; Eastwood, Ashiya; Eshun, Kodwo; Moalemi, Mahan and Ronkina, Geelia, eds. 2017. The Fisher-Function. London: Egress.

Poppel, Sarah; Vasic-Janekovic, Vanessa; Eshun, Kodwo; Linke, Armin; Mende, Doreen and Tomic, Milica, eds. 2016. Travelling Communiqué: Studying Practices of decolonial thinking through the presidential Photo Archive of Josip Broz Tito at the Museum of Yugoslav History. Leipzig: Spector Books. ISBN 9783944669922

Butt, Gavin; Eshun, Kodwo and Fisher, Mark, eds. 2016. Post-Punk Then and Now. Repeater. ISBN 9781910924266

Edited Journal

Eshun, Kodwo and Gray, Ros, eds. 2011. The Militant Image: A Ciné-Geography, Third Text, 25(1). 0952-8822

Book Section

Eshun, Kodwo. 2020. From 953 AD to 1 Gigayear: Cheikh Anta Diop's Future Vector of Energy. In: Eric C. H. de Bruyn and Sven Lütticken, eds. Futurity Report. 1 Berlin: Sternberg Press, pp. 217-237. ISBN 9783956794230

Eshun, Kodwo. 2019. To Win the War, You Fought It Sideways: Kojo Laing's Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars. In: Henriette Gunkel and Kara Lynch, eds. We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments and Diffractions. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, pp. 83-106. ISBN 9783837646016

Akomfrah, John and Eshun, Kodwo. 2019. The Secessionist Manifestos of Certain Received Wisdoms. In: Henriette Gunkel and Kara Lynch, eds. We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments and Diffractions. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, pp. 363-370. ISBN 9783837646016

Article

Eshun, Kodwo and Sagar, Anjali. 2014. It may be useful to assume the policeman’s perspective now and then. Black Collectivities NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, ISSN 1075-7163x

Eshun, Kodwo. 2003. Further Considerations on Afrofuturism. CR The New Centennial Review, 3(2), pp. 287-302. ISSN 15396630

Conference or Workshop Item

Ferreira da Silva, Denise; Hameed, Ayesha; Sharma, Ashwani; Sagar, Anjalika and Eshun, Kodwo. 2018. 'Study Group on Black Aesthetics'. In: In formation III. Institute for Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom 26 August 2018.

Eshun, Kodwo. 2017. 'The Circuit of Enslavement'. In: The Global Condition: Dispossession, Displacement and Death. Performing Arts Forum, St. Erme, United Kingdom 20 July 2017.

Eshun, Kodwo. 2017. 'Fukushima and Visual Inquiry'. In: Philippe Rouy Film Screening and Conversation with Jason Waite. Arts Catalyst Centre, London, United Kingdom 13 July 2017.

Art Object

Eshun, Kodwo. 2017. @GlissantBot, Twitter Bot, ongoing..

Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. The Third Part of the Third Measure [Video].

Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. From Left to Night [video].

Exhibition Catalogue

Eshun, Kodwo. 2019. The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis Short Guide.

Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. World 3.

Film/Video

Eshun, Kodwo and Anjalika, Sagar. 2012. The Radiant.

Eshun, Kodwo. 2003. OTOLITH 1.

Project

Eshun, Kodwo. 2014-2015 In the Year of the Quiet Sun.

Show/Exhibition

Eshun, Kodwo. 2019. The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis. In: "The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis", Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2019 to 2022.

Eshun, Kodwo. 2018. Xenogenesis. In: "Xenogenesis", VanabbeMuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Eshun, Kodwo. 2017. The Radiant. In: "The Radiant", , Art Gallery Miyauch, Japan, 11 March – 21 May 2017.

Research Interests

Contemporary art and critical theory with particular reference to postwar liberation movements, modern and contemporary musicality, cybernetic theory, the cinematic soundtrack and archaeologies of futurity.