Moving on the Wires: News, Posts, New Music

*I am featured in Atlanta Blackstar’s blerd’s “Black Speculative Tech – Uses of Technology in Black Science Fiction, Part 2:” “Because of institutional racism and our positions as mere subjects of science, Black people have typically been excluded from the mainstream scientific establishment as actors, practitioners, researchers and policymakers. Black scientific and technological innovation and […]

Modern Griots Interviews: Daví

Previously, I reviewed musician, dancer and DJ Daví‘s work, now here is an interview with him where he discusses his show at the Brooklyn Museum, The Beginning of Everything eating, his love for Wangechi Mutu’s work, his first EP, Got the Seed and lessons he learned from Kerry Washington, David Alan Grier, Melvin Van Peebles and […]

Modern Griots Reviews: Daví

It’s not that often today that I come to witness an artist who reminds me of some of my favorite musical artists and excites me because of the force of the creativity that they bring to their performance and musical work. One of them is artist, choreographer and DJ, Daví I first saw him at […]

Moving on the Wires: This Week’s News and Posts

*I am planning to a fundraiser in the future to raise money for trademarking my blog name and logo as well as to do merchandising. But in the meantime, please donate at the sidebar. Any amount is appreciated. Thank you! Check out Chinaka Hodge’s “Black Future Month” posts. *Raimi Gbadamosi‘s “Afrofuturism as a New Consciousness” […]

Modern Griots Review: Wangechi Mutu’s A Fantastic Journey

To have a fantastic imagination requires a fluidity of perception of reality and that encapsulates Wangechi Mutu’s exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, A Fantastic Journey. Mutu’s medium of collage artwork provides a natural basis for her ideas that combine an ancient mythic and animistic values with the futuristic cyborg concepts to comment on global modern […]

Otherworldly Videos: Misha B/Mutu & Santigold/Jawwaad

Misha B– “Here’s To Everything (Ooh La La)” Wangechi Mutu + Santigold – “The End of Eating Everything” Preview (Interview here) co-released by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and MOCAtv on YouTube. The 8-minute video (co-released by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and MOCAtv on YouTube) stars Santigold as […]

Otherworldly Videos: The Love in the Dance

Freshlyground – “Take Me to the Dance” Pegasus Warning – “Try So Hard” Directed by Wangechi Mutu

Modern Griots Reviews: Terence Nance Weekend

Last weekend, I saw two of Terence Nance‘s films, The Oversimplification of Her Beauty and Triptych, at Urbanworld. It was as if swirling in a void somewhere between reality and fantasy. That is one way I would describe the first of Nance’s introspective and experimental films, The Oversimplification of Her Beauty (previously known as How […]

Art of This World: “Wangechi Mutu -The Catatonic Bliss of Violent Incidences”

Here is part of an in interesting interview with Wangechi Mutu from Another Africa: …There is always a sort of underlying violence embedded in each of the pieces she creates. Affirmative fears, archetypal dogmas and the stigmata of war are all woven into one highly elaborate composition. The results are overpowering metaphors that often puts the viewer in […]

Otherworldly Videos: Afropunk Presents….

Wangechi Mutu Sanford Biggers Barron Clairborne On MAY 24th at BROOKLYN MUSEUM, Afro-punk pictures presents “The Triptych,” in association with Weeksville Heritage Center. This short-film series (Dir. Terence Nance, Dir. of Photography Shawn Peters, Co-Dir. Barron Claiborne) highlights the work of artists Sanford Biggers, Wangechi Mutu, and Barron Claiborne. Live music and a Q&A with […]