Decolonizing Imagination, Improvisations on Anti-­‐Black Violence unBIBLIOGRAPHY (a work-­‐in-­‐progress) Below is a list of references that help frame the ideas and aesthetic presented in the visual opera Author/Artist Title Reference Information A Alvin Ailey Marina Abramovic M. Jacqui Alexander El Anatsui Laurie Anderson Gloria Anzaldua, ed Revelations The Artist is Present T-­‐town Talk (sorry, not mobile phone friendly) https://vimeo.com/10185543 https://vimeo.com/72711715 https://myspace.com/417699219/video/m.jacqui-­‐alexander-­‐
ph.d/55388466 http://www.jackshainman.com/artists/el-­‐anatsui/#video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RZpphITFM4 (1990) Louis Armstrong Art Ensemble of Chicago The Beginning of Memory Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans? Prayer for Jimbo Kwesi B Toni Cade Bambara Azealia Banks L. Frank Baum Carole Becker, ed. Simone Browne Octavia Butler The Salt Eaters Idle Delilah The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society & Social Responsibility Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness Parable of the Sower Parable of the Talents Parable of the Trickster (unfinished) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS5MNK0_X_Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqUA77YoGX8 (1980) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiXn5u_GWrk (1900) (1990) (2015) (1993) (1998) Author/Artist Title Reference Information C Mary Cassatt Elizabeth Catlett Dave Chapelle Black Monsters http://www.marycassatt.org/ http://www.artnet.com/artists/elizabeth-­‐catlett/ Michelle Cliff Patricia Hill Collins Renee Cox Jayne Cortez Critical Resistance D Djembe Orchestra http://www.comedycentral.com/video-­‐clips/lj7gkm/chappelle-­‐s-­‐show-­‐
black-­‐monsters Object Into Subject: Some Thoughts on the Work of Black Women Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Artists Perspectives by Feminists of Color, Gloria Anzaldua, ed., (1990) Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics (2008) of Empowerment Sacred Geometry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5a5xFt1CnQ There It Is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6bKgljhvR0 Why Amnesty? http://correctionsproject.com/CR_KATRINA/why_amnesty.pdf Assiko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOjW4ICEMyM Ron Eglash Brian Eno and David Byrne Elizam Escobar The Fractals at the Heart of African Designs My Life in the Bush of Ghosts http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_eglash_on_african_fractals?language=en https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djf1vQ7uunI The Heuristic Power of Art F The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society & Social Responsibility, Carole Becker, ed., (1994) Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks The Wretched of the Earth Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors Floodlines: Community and Resistance From Katrina to the Jena Six Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-­‐1977 (1952) (1961) (2014) Thoughts on Nomadic Aesthetics and the Black Independent Cinema http://teshomegabriel.net/thoughts-­‐on-­‐nomadic-­‐aesthetics E Carolyn Finney Jordan Flaherty Michel Foucault G Teshome Gabriel
(2010) (1980) Author/Artist Title Reference Information G
Gelede Women’s Secret Society Helen Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins Sam Gilliam Ceremony Through the Marketplace Avery F. Gordon Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination The Black Dancing Body: A Geography From Coon to Cool Brenda Dixon Gottschild Post-­‐Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFSQ8H1CG9g and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaQuGEndA8k (1996) http://www.mmoca.org/about-­‐us/press-­‐room/press-­‐releases/2007/09/10 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mg2_yHz4K4 (2008) (2003) H Stuart Hall Saidiya Hartman bell hooks bell hooks and Cornell West Doris Humphrey The Afterlife of Frantz Fanon: Why Fanon? Why Now? Why Black Skin, White Masks? Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance The Fact of Blackness, Alan Reed, ed. (1996) (2008) Black Looks: Race and Representation (1992) https://anaestheticsofhiphop.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/eating-­‐the-­‐
other.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LL0k6_pPKw Choreographers Are Special People The Art of Making Dances (1987) The Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense Yo' Mama's Disfunktional! Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (2007) Whisper, the Waves, the Wind Zami: A New Spelling of My Name https://vimeo.com/100262347 (1982) K Kara Keeling Robin D.G. Kelley (1998) L Suzanne Lacy Audre Lorde Author/Artist Title Reference Information M Herbert Marcuse The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle Black Geographies and the Politics of Place (1977) Savage Beauty The Colonized and the Colonizer Traces Galerie Rudolfinum Cissy Strut Ay No Se Ofendan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg0HwLAJyV0 (1965) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72Nk0sPfRrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X-­‐6_0YqgeI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckkrZk6QwPQ http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displaySpecialPage?pageId=4564 Gordon Parks Nam June Paik A Choice of Weapons Beuys Voice Parliament Guillermo Gomez-­‐
Peña PHASE Chocolate City The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems & Loqueras for the End of the Century Projection Mapping Street Art Festival Prague 09 with Ventuz (1966) http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-­‐on/exhibition/nam-­‐june-­‐paik/nam-­‐june-­‐paik-­‐
room-­‐guide/nam-­‐june-­‐paik-­‐section-­‐6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZaVA3NS7zE (1996) Katherine McKittrick Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods Alexander McQueen Albert Memmi Ana Mendieta The Meters Juana Molina N O Joe Overstreet P Pilobolus Dance Theatre Adrian Piper Q Deconstructing Race in the Indexical Present (2006) (2007) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgkCoYEnn38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y38bUumNak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKPtKrKvXyo Author/Artist
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Reference Information
R Sun Ra Space is the Place The Door to the Cosmos The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation Triptych (Prayer, Protest, Peace) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQEPB2IFVBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87FDctNdUOw (1996) Alan Reed, ed. Beth E. Richie Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln S Betye Saar Sonia Sanchez Ntozake Shange The Influence of the African Diaspora Stay on the Battlefield Liliane: Resurrection of The Daughter Spell #7, A Theater Piece in Two Acts Blasé Pirate Jenny Archie Shepp Nina Simone Patricia Smith Karolina Sobecka T U-­‐V Urban Bush Women W-­‐X-­‐Y-­‐Z Carrie Mae Weems Alexander Weheliye Wife Frank B. Wilderson, III (2012) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMaUDAeiSIY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znjly4abYLE https://vimeo.com/69967610 (@ 8:03) (1994) (1980) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpE9SN81H6E Blood Dazzler Wild Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB__mz4KGC8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXMI5UhpFL4 https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=lpju7FtSJ7U Dark Swan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOhHGvbcZ8Q The Louisiana Project Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human The Grey Ones Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid and “We’re trying to destroy the world” Anti-­‐Blackness & Police Violence After Ferguson An Interview with Frank B. Wilderson, III http://carriemaeweems.net/galleries/louisiana.html (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P01BXM2YdCc http://sfbay-­‐anarchists.org/wp-­‐content/uploads/2015/01/frank-­‐b-­‐wilderson-­‐iii-­‐were-­‐
trying-­‐to-­‐destroy-­‐the-­‐world-­‐antiblackness-­‐police-­‐violence-­‐after-­‐ferguson.pdf.