The reading room

2020

• -Hapticity and Time. Notes on Fragile Architecture: Juhani Pallasmaa
• –In The Den of the Alchemist: Souleymane Bachir Diagne
• -Fate Work: A Conversation between Valentina Desideri and Stefano Harney
• –Semiotics of the Cod: João Pedro Vale & Nuno Alexandre Ferreira
• -Black Visual Frequency: A Glossary: Tina Campt
• –The university is dead; long live the university: Wandia Njoya
• -Public Sphere by Performance: Bojana Cvejić & Ana Vujanović
• -E-ducating the gaze: The idea of a poor pedagogy: Jan Masschelein
• -Beyond The River Yei. Life in the land where sleeping is a disease: Binyavanga Wainaina
• -The Re-Enchantment of Humanism: An Interview with Sylvia Wynter: David Scott
• –The Ignorant Dramaturg: Bojana Cvejić
• -Moving as Thing. Choreographic Critiques of the Object: André Lepecki
• -Sculpture in the Expanded Field: Rosalind Krauss
• –Thought is a Material: Talking with Mel Bochner about Space, Art, and Language: Alexander Kranjec
• -Black visuality and the practice of refusal: Tina Campt
• -Form & Object. A Treatise on Things: Tristan Garcia
• –De-Territorializing the Child: Towards a Theory of Affect in Educational Philosophy and Research: Marta Pires
• -Städelschule Lectures: 2019-1999
• -Duty Free Art. Art in the age of planetary civil war: Hito Steyerl
• –Cinephilia and Monstrosity: The Problem of Cinema in Deleuze’s Cinema Books: Claire Perkins
• -The House of Hunger: Dambudzo Marechera
• -En atendant & Cesena: A Choreographer’s Score: Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker & Bojana Cvejić
• -Festac ’77: Chimurenga
• -Maps And Wander Lines: Fernand Deligny
• -(panic) shopping list(s)
• -No Roses from My Mouth: Poems from Prison: Dr. Stella Nyanzi
• –Listening to Images: Tina M. Campt
• -In the Wake: On Blackness and Being: Christina Sharpe
• -Choreographing Problems: Expressive Concepts in European Contemporary Dance and Performance: Bojana Cvejić
• –Towards a Poetics of Imagination. On Mette Edvardsen’s poetry and its penchant to imagine a clandestine side to things: Bojana Cvejić
• -Walenisi: Katama Mkangi
• -The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
• -Deutscher Pavillon 2013, La Biennale di Venezia: Ai Weiwei, Romuald Karmakar, Santu Mofokeng, Dayanita Singh
• –ArtAsiaPacific
• –Monoskop

2019

• -Shin Egashira: Before Object, After Image. 1996 – 2006 Koshirakura Landscape
• -Kodwo Eshun: More Brilliant than the Sun; Adventures in Sonic Fiction
• -Fernand Deligny: Maps & Wander Lines
• -Sophie Podolski: The country where everything is permitted
• -Grace Ndiritu: Institutional Critique: Racism & Spiritual Practice in the Art World, 2019
• -Tim Ingold: Lines-a Brief History, The Life of Lines, Being Alive, Making
• -IKON: second series #1. Fall/Winter 1982-83
• -The Sarai Reader book series
• -The Adventures of Thiga: C.M Mureithi
• -K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
• -Capitalist Realism: Mark Fisher
• -The Essential Writings of Marcel Duchamp: Edited by Michel Sanouillet & Elmer Peterson
• -Sinazo Chiya: 9 More Weeks
• –eflux: Anton Vidokle and Hito Steyerl- Cosmic Catwalk and the Production of Time
• –eflux: Raqs Media Collective- Stammer, Mumble, Sweat, Scrawl, and Tic
• -Visual Culture: the reader. Edited by Jessica Evans & Stuart Hall
• –Ibraaz: Contemporary Visual Culture in North Africa & The Middle East
• –KADIST: A Distinct Itinerary in. Space and. Time.
• -Ngũgĩ wa Mirii: On Literacy Content, 1979
• -James Muriuki & Syowia Kyambi: Layers
• -Chimurenganyana: When you kill us we Rule! Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s last interview. By Keziah Jones
• -Monsieur Antipyrine’s Manifesto: Tristan Tzara
• -Texte Zur Kunst: Globalisms
• -Ashraf Jamal: In The World. Essays on Contemporary South African Art
• -Àsìkò: residency notes
• -Co.@rtnews
• -Jackie Karuti: The Address (Book)
• -Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2018 catalog: Possibilities for a Non-alienated Life
• -Jackie Karuti responding to Wolfang Tillmans’ work: What else can a photograph be?
• –Kwani? journal: Books 1-8

2018

• -Felwine Sarr & Bénédicte Savoy: The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics
• -Jonathan Gathaara Sölanke Fraser: FOSSILS (or the movement of an image across a field of memory)
• -Michelle Angwenyi: BIRD. an alternative thesis
• -Neo Sinoxolo Musangi: Homing with My Mother / How Women in My Family Married Women
• –African Art Since 1992: A Timeline of Momentous Events in And Around The Continent
• -Soul of a Nation. Art in the Age of Black Power: Edited by Mark Godfrey & Zoé Whitley
• -Museum fur Volkerkunde, Frankfurt-Signs: Art from East Africa 1974 – 1989
• -Dak’Art Biennale 2018 Catalog
• -The Invention of Zimbabwe: The Chronic, Chimurenga-April, 2018
• -XiBARUU TEERE YI(‘Chronic Books’ in Wolof): What can African Writers Learn from Cheikh Anta Diop?
• -A Path Not Taken: The Story of Joseph Murumbi. Africa’s Greatest Private Cultural Collector and Kenya’s Second Vice-president. Anne Thurston
• -9 Weeks: Hansi Momodu-Gordon
• -Purple: John Akomfrah
• -documenta 14: Daybook & Reader
• -SOUTH as a state of mind
• -Àsìkò: on the future of artistic and curatorial pedagogies in Africa
• -Curriculum of Connections. Focus: Education- Contemporary &: Special documenta 14 edition
• -Condition Report: symposium on building Art institutions in Africa. Edited by Koyo Kouoh
• –Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh