Adam Pendleton: Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths: Revisiting the Black Dada Reader

Pendleton, Adam and Thomas Hirschhorn, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Joan Jonas, Lorraine O'Grady, Joan Retallack

ISBN 10: 1734681713 / ISBN 13: 9781734681710

Published by DABA and Walther Konig, 2021

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Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, 392+ pages; as new condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adam Pendleton: Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths: Revisiting the Black Dada Reader
• Publisher: DABA and Walther Konig
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1734681713
• ISBN 13: 9781734681710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art Since 1945

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Synopsis

The sequel to Pendleton's acclaimed Black Dada Reader, compiling an anti-canon of radical experimentation and thought

In 2011, artist Adam Pendleton (born 1984) assembled Black Dada Reader, a compendium of texts, documents and positions that elucidated a practice and ethos of "Black Dada." Resembling a school course reader, the book was a spiral-bound series of photocopies and collages, originally intended only for personal reference, and eventually distributed informally to friends and colleagues. The contents―an unlikely mix of Hugo Ball, W.E.B. Du Bois, Adrian Piper, Gertrude Stein, Sun Ra, Stokely Carmichael, Gilles Deleuze―formed a kind of experimental canon, realized through what Pendleton calls "radical juxtaposition." In 2017, Koenig Books published the Reader in a hardcover edition, with newly commissioned essays and additional writings by the artist. A decade later, Pendleton has composed another reader, building upon the constellation of writers, artists, filmmakers, philosophers and critics that emerged in the first volume.
Source texts by Sara Ahmed, Mikhail Bakhtin, Toni Cade Bambara, Amiri Baraka, Augusto de Campos, Hardoldo de Campos, and Décio Pignatari, Angela Davis, Gilles Deleuze, Julius Eastman, Adrienne Edwards, Clarice Lispector, Achille Mbembe, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Charles Mingus, Piet Mondrian, Leslie Scalapino, Leonard Schwartz and Michael Hardt, Juliana Spahr, Cecil Taylor and Malcolm X.