The shadows took shape
By: [curated by] Naima J. Keith, Zoé Whitley ; contributions by Tegan Bristow [and others]
Contributors: Studio Museum in Harlem
Publisher: Studio Museum in Harlem
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780942949377
Subjects: African American art; Exhibitions; African American artists
Notes: Exhibition catalog.

"This publication was organized on the occasion of the exhibition The shadows took shape at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. The shadows took shape was organized by Naima J. Keith, assistant curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Zoé Whitley, independent curator. November 14, 2013-March 9, 2014"--Colophon.

Contributions by: Tegan Bristow, Samuel R. Delany, Kodwo Eshun, Thelma Golden, Paul D. Miller, Alondra Nelson, Peter Shapiro.

Artists' curricula vitae included.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Thelma Golden; title: Acknowledgments  -- Naima J. Keith and Zoé Whitley; title: Looking for the invisible  -- Naima J. Keith; title: The place is space : Afrofuturism's transnational geographies  -- Noé Whitley; title: Artist entries  -- texts by Jamillah James, Monique Long, Kristina Lopez, Abbe Schriber -- Z-Q:; title: Saya Woolfalk ;; title: William Villalongo ;; title: Cauleen Smith ;; title: Larissa Sansour ;; title: Lili Reynaud-Dewar ;; title: Rammellzee ;; title: Sun Ra --; title: Out of the shadows, into the stars  -- Alondra Nelson; title: Plexus nexus : Samuel R. Delany's pataphysics  -- Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid in conversation with Samuel R. Delany -- P-K:; title: Robert Pruitt ;; title: The Otolith Group ;; title: Harold Offeh ;; title: Wangechi Mutu ;; title: Mehreen Murtaza ;; title: Hew Locke ;; title: Wanuri Kahiu --; title: The remanipulator versus syntactical virus  -- Peter Shapiro; title: We want the funk : what is Afrofuturism to Africa?  -- Tegan Bristow -- K-H:; title: Cyrus Kabiru ;; title: David Huffman ;; title: Wayne Hodge ;; title: Kiluanji Kia Henda ;; title: Kira Lynn Harris ;; title: Trenton Doyle Hancock ;; title: Khaled Hafez --; title: The necessity of tomorrow(s)  -- Samuel R. Delany; title: Stealing one's own corpse : Afrofuturism as a speculative heresy  -- Kodwo Eshun -- G-A:; title: Cristina De Middel ;; title: William Cordova ;; title: Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher ;; title: Sanford Biggers ;; title: Edgar Arceneaux ;; title: Laylah Ali ;; title: John Akomfrah ;; title: Derrick Adams --; title: Curators' note.