Kodwo Eshun
Staff details
Teaching
MRes and PhD in Visual Cultures
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.
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
Eshun, Kodwo. 2018. Geomythologies. In: Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova, eds. Posthuman Glossary. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781350030244
Eshun, Kodwo. 2018. Marc Karlin’s Voyages around Susan Meiselas’ Nicaragua Photographs [Catalogue Essay]. In: Carles Guerra, ed. Susan Meiselas: Meditations. Bologna: Damiani. ISBN 9788862085687
Hameed, Ayesha; Eshun, Kodwo and Moreno, Louis. 2017. Sonic Utopias: The Last Angel of History. A Conversation between Ayesha Hameed, Kodwo Eshun and Louis Moreno. In: Henriette Gunkel; Ayesha Hameed and Simon D. O'Sullivan, eds. Futures and Fictions. London: Repeater, pp. 249-267. ISBN 9781910924631
Eshun, Kodwo. 2017. On Her Devolves The Labour: Cinematic Time Travel of the Song of the Shirt. In: Sue Clayton and Laura Mulvey, eds. Other Cinemas : Politics, Culture and Experimental Film in the 1970s. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 257-270. ISBN 9781784537180
Eshun, Kodwo. 2017. Drexciya as Spectre [Catalogue Essay]. In: Margarida Mendes, ed. Matter Fictions. Sternberg Press. ISBN 978-3-95679-303-5
Eshun, Kodwo and Biemann, Ursula. 2017. When Matter Thinks. In: Doreen Mende, ed. Thinking Under Turbulence. HEAD Geneve: Geneva Colloquium. ISBN 9782940524556
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. Prolonging 1961: A Communique Sent to the Future [Catalogue Essay]. In: Armin Linke; Vaness Vasic-Janekovic and Sarah Poppel, eds. Travelling Communiqué. Leipzig: Spector Press. ISBN 9783944669922
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. The Weakest Link in Every Chain I Always Want To Find It: Green Gartside in Conversation with Kodwo Eshun. In: Kodwo Eshun; Gavin Butt and Mark Fisher, eds. Post-Punk Then and Now. Repeater. ISBN 9781910924266
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. Fear of a Wet Planet. In: Nav Haq, ed. RAVE: Rave and its Influence on Art and Culture. M KHA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen & Black Dog Publishing. ISBN 978-1910433874
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. The object spoke to me but what it said I cannot say [Catalogue Essay]. In: Boris Ondreicka and Nadium Samman, eds. Rare Earth. Sternberg Press.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. We Wanted This Sense of Fluxing In and Out of History: Kodwo Eshun in Conversation with Sue Clayton. In: Kodwo Eshun; Gavin Butt and Gavin Fisher, eds. Post-Punk Then and Now. Repeater. ISBN 9781910924266
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. A Hunter Shooting Waterbirds. In: , ed. Studio for Propositional Cinema #2.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. Kodwo Eshun in conversation with Lucas van der Velden [Exhibition Catalogue]. In: Lucas van der Velden; Mirna Belina and Arie Altena, eds. The Geological Imagination. Sonic Acts.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. The Energetic Impulse [Catalogue Essay]. In: , ed. L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema. Tate Modern.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. Statecraft: An Incomplete Timeline of Independence Determined by Digital Auction [Catalogue Essay]. In: Annett Busch and Anselm Franke, eds. After Year Zero: Geographies of Collaboration. Warsaw: Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Muzeum of Modern Art.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. Reconstructing the Methods for reformatting Oxygen Isotopes in nature and in the Laboratory as Oxygen Tops Nature Oratory for Optical Character Recognition Scanners. In: K. Klingan; A. Sepahvad; C. Rosol and B. Scherer, eds. Grain Vapor Ray: Textures of the Anthropocene. MIT, pp. 121-127. ISBN 9780262527415
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. Narcissus in Uniform [Catalogue Essay]. In: Elvira Dyangani Ose, ed. Uses of Memory: Caderno Sesc Videobrazil, 10 ed.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. Stealing one’s own corpse: Afrofuturism as Speculative Heresy. In: Naima J Keith and Zoe Whitley, eds. The Shadows Took Shape. The Studio Museum in Harlem.
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.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2017. 'The Algorithmic Poetics of @GlissantBot'. In: The Proxy and Its Politics: On evasive objects in a Networked Age. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany 24 June 2017.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2017. 'Fukushima Artists Films'. In: In Conversation with Jason Waite. Arts Catalyst Centre, London, United Kingdom 21 June 2017.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2017. 'The Eastman Complex'. In: I/mages of Tomorrow: Envisioning black, POC futures, disabled futures, queer & trans futures, feminist futures. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 3 June 2017.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2017. 'Algorithmic Poetics'. In: Techno Resistance and Black Futures Festival. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 27 May 2017.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2017. 'The Third Part of The Third Measure, Screening and Conversation with Boris Ondreicka'. In: The Question of Will. A4, Bratislava, Slovakia 24 May 2017.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2017. 'The Jet Propelled Take Off of the Black Star'. In: Future Caucus. Vanabbemuseum Eindhoven, Netherlands 20 May 2017.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2017. 'Modernization Theories and Modernist Poetics in Transition Magazine'. In: Podium. KurzfilmTage Oberhausen, Netherlands 17 May 2017.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2017. 'Ceddo in the Future of 1976'. In: Angazi but I’m Sure. Raw Academy, Dakar, Senegal 21 April 2017.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2017. 'The Third Part of The Third Measure, Screening and Conversation with Anthony Elms'. In: International House, Endless Shout. Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Philadelphia, United States 16 March 2017.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2017. 'Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Screening and Conversation with John Akomfrah'. In: Climates of Fiction: Cinemas from the Capitalocene. Institute of Light, Institute of Light, United Kingdom 6 March 2017.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2017. 'The Literal Technology of the Hartman Circuitry'. In: Intimate Trespass: Hapticality, Waywardness and the Practice of Entanglement. Cecil Sharp House, London, United Kingdom 8 July 2017.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'In Conversation with Apitchatpong Weerasethakul'. In: Pan-African Space Station. Amsterdam Central Library, Netherlands 13 December 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'On the Black Universe'. In: Art Center. South Florida, Miami Beach, United States 3 December 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'Narrating the Race to Zero'. In: Haut ecole d’ art et design. Geneve, Swaziland 30 November 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'Co-Op Dialogues 1996-2016'. In: In Conversation with Jean Matthee. Tate Britain, United Kingdom 14 November 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'Uski Roti, Mani Kaul'. In: Screening and Discussion with Sumesh Sharma. The Empire Remains Shop, United States 23 October 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'Genres of the Human'. In: In conversation with Louis Chude Sokei and Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom. The Showroom, London, United Kingdom 12 October 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'We Are Methane'. In: Miracle Marathon. Serpentine Galleries, Second Home, Hanbury Street, United Kingdom 9 October 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'A Prototype for a Future Archaeology of the Image'. In: Harun Farocki Forever: Work, Wars and the Museum. Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain 6 October 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'The Forgotten Space'. In: Lopud Seminar. Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Lopud, Croatia 8 - 11 September 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'Artist Talk'. In: Reconstruction of Story 2. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, Republic of 26 August 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'Decolonizing Nature'. In: In Conversation with T. J. Demos and Ros Gray. The Showroom, United Kingdom 14 July 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'The Final Scene of Hyenas: An Parenthetical Incorporation'. In: 23rd Image Symposium: Black or White Screen: The Power of Seeing Images Together. , CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Mosteles 27- 30 June 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'The Final Scene of Hyenas: A Parenthetical Incorporation'. In: Khiasma, Kinesis Exposition Arts Visuel. Paris, France 21 June 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'An Endless Suddenness'. In: Thinking with Fred Moten. Open School East, London, United Kingdom 12 June 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'Continental Afrofutures Lecture Two'. In: The Final Scene of Hyenas: A Fable of Fatal Incorporation. The Showroom, London, United Kingdom 11 June 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'The Many Lives of Peter Wollen Part 2'. In: Beyond the Scorched Earth of Counter Cinema. Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom 22 May 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'Screening of Anathema in conversation with Mark Fisher'. In: Speeding and Braking: Navigating Acceleration. Goldsmiths, London, United Kingdom 12 May 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'On Opacity in Senghor and Glissant, States of Opacity: Art, Politics and New Social Imaginaries'. In: International Symposium. Dak’ Art, Dakar Biennial, Senegal 7 - 8 May 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo; Moreno, Louis and Hameed, Ayesha. 2016. 'In conversation with Louis Moreno and Ayesha Hameed'. In: Stadtklang, Sonic Utopias, Utopia Treasury. Somerset House, United Kingdom 20 March 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'Methods of Animating the Second Wars of Existence in Kojo Laing’s Achimota City'. In: We Hold This Myth to be Potential. Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norway 17 March 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'Between Times: Marc Karlin Weekend, Meanwhile'. In: What about Socialism AV Festival. Newcastle, United Kingdom.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'Continental Afrofutures Lecture One'. In: Laingian Science Fiction. The Showroom, United Kingdom 27 February 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'Screening and Discussion, Song of Ceylon, Basil Wight, 1934'. In: About Basil Wright’s ‘Song of Ceylon’,. Harun Farocki, 1975, United Kingdom 26 February 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2016. 'For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder'. In: Listening and Discussion with Mark Fisher, Mark Stewart and Gareth Sagar of The Pop Group. Rough Trade East, United Kingdom 22 February 2016.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'Respondent to Tavia Nyong’o'. In: Tavia Nyong’o. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 12 November 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'The Radiant'. In: The Radiant, Screening and Lecture. Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse University, New York, United States 12 November 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'Artists Moving Image Practice in Britain: From 1990 to today'. In: Artists Moving Image Practice in Britain. Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom 7 November 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'Voyages: When Cinema tracks Photojournalism, The Old is dying and the new cannot be born: States, Strategies, Socialisms.'. In: 12th Annual Historical Materialism Conference. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, United Kingdom 6 November 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'Bad New Days: Discussion with Hal Foster and Alex Potts, The Old is dying and the new cannot be born: States, Strategies, Socialisms.'. In: . 12th Annual Historical Materialism Conference. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, United Kingdom 6 November 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'In Conversation with Bonaventure Ndikung'. In: African Futures Festival. African Futures Festival, United Kingdom 28 - 31 October 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'Forms of Discontent in Handsworth Songs The Eros Effect'. In: Art, Solidarity Movements and the Struggle for Social Justice. Tensta Konsthall, Sweden 17 October 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'Listening to Dambudzo Marachera'. In: Pan-African Space Station. The Showroom 11 October 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'Listening to FESTAC ’77: In Conversation with Ntone Edjagbe'. In: Pan-African Space Station. The Showroom 8 October 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'Rereading the African Writers Series: In Conversation with James Currey'. In: Pan-African Space Station. The Showroom, United Kingdom 8 October 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'Rereading the African Writers Series: In Conversation with James Currey'. In: Pan-African Space Station. The, United Kingdom 8 October 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'In conversation with Ursula Biemann'. In: CCC, HEAD,. Geneve, Switzerland 28 - 30 September 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'Leben BRD, Harun Farocki: Cinema and Speculation'. In: Padiglione Centrale Arena. Giardini, La Biennale di Venezia, United Kingdom 5 September 2015.
Hameed, Ayesha; Eshun, Kodwo and Diederichsen, Diedrich. 2015. 'Circle/ Rhythm/ Ritual'. In: Labour in a Single Shot. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany 26 - 28 February 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'with Billy Woodberry, Barbara McCullough and June'. In: LA Rebellion Seminar. Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom 12 April 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'Eadward Muybridge Zoopraxographer: Screening and Discussion with Thom Andersen'. In: Essay Film Festival. ICA, United Kingdom 28 March 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'Anathema, People to Be Resembling and In the Year of the Quiet Sun, Screening and Discussion'. In: Essay Film Festival. ICA, London, United Kingdom 27 March 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'Introduction to screening of The Three Disappearances of Souad Hosni, Rania Stephan'. In: Essay Film Festival. ICA, London, United Kingdom 27 March 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'On the Use and Abuse of Youtube for Life'. In: Global Art Forum. Dubai, United Arab Emirates 19 March 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'Sci-fi futures and the production of subjectivities'. In: UNSPECIFIED. The Showroom, London, United Kingdom 7 March 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'Conversation with Diedrich Diederichsen and Nina Montman'. In: Brave New Work: A Reader on Harun Farocki’s A New Product. The Showroom, United Kingdom 25 February 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. 'Keynote Lecture'. In: Public Assets: Small Scale Arts Organisations and the Production of Value. Platform Theatre, Central Saint Martins, United Kingdom 15 February 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. 'In Conversation with Sue Clayton'. In: Postpunk Now and Then. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 4 December 2014.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. 'In Conversation with Green Gartside (Scritti Politti)'. In: Postpunk Now and Then. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 4 December 2014.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. 'Screening and Discussion'. In: Medium Earth. Serralves Museum, Porto, United Kingdom 1 November 2014.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. 'Screening and Discussion'. In: Hydra Decapita and Medium Earth. Electricity Museum, Lisbon, Portugal 23 October 2014.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. 'The Airstrip – Decampment of Modernism Part III and Two Museums'. In: Screening and Discussion with Heinz Emigholz. UNDEFINED 8 October 2014.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. 'A Special Arrow was Shot in the Neck'. In: David Roberts Foundation, Medium Earth, Screening and Discussion. Rio Cinema, London, United Kingdom 22 July 2014.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. 'Forum: The Attraction of Representation'. In: The Attraction of Representation. NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, United Kingdom 21 June 2014.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. 'The Sixth Side of the Pentagon and Far from Vietnam'. In: Chris Marker Screening and Introduction. The Barbican, London, United Kingdom 13 May 2014.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. 'The Song of the Shirt'. In: The Song of the Shirt, Sue Clayton and Laura Mulvey. Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom 29 April 2014.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. 'In the Year of the Quiet Sun, Screening and Discussion'. In: Interdisciplinary Practices: FESTAC’ 77. Terra Kulture, Lagos, Nigeria 18 April 2014.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. 'Panel discussion with John Akomfrah, Mark Fisher and Bea Campbell'. In: The Unfinished Conversation. Tate Britain, United Kingdom 14 March 2014.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. 'Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artists Film and Video in Britain 2008 - 2013'. In: Questions of Progress I and II. Tate Britain, Clore Auditorium, United Kingdom 9 March 2014.
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].
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. Gather round me, my writers, musicians, artists: my name is NAM.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. Statecraft.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. One Out of Many Afrophilias.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. Sovereign Sisters.
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.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. Novaya Zemlya. In: "Novaya Zemlya", Museu de Serralves , Porto, Portugal, 1 November-11 January.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. In the Year of the Quiet Sun. In: "In the Year of the Quiet Sun", Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, 17 January - 9 March 2014.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. In the Year of the Quiet Sun. In: "The Otolith Group: In the Year of the Quiet Sun", Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht, Netherlands, 14 November 2014 - 25 January 2015.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. In the Year of the Quiet Sun. In: "In the Year of the Quiet Sun", Delfina Foundation, London, United Kingdom, 13 October - 8 November 2014.
Eshun, Kodwo. 2014. Medium Earth. In: "Medium Earth", RedCat, Los Angeles, United States, 21 April-16 June.