“Nowadays deep seated issues of race, class, slavery etc. are mashing up with modern life and expectations of what life should be […] it’s refreshing 2 imagine a future where Afro culture/style exists in highest beauty without always connecting it to a painful past” Quoting tweets by @stormsaulter — “The imagination spurs creativity and scientific inquiry alike #afrofuturism […] triggers the imagination & helps many see beyond convention.” Quoting tweets by @ytashawomack.
Tag: Digital Tribes
CREATION
Entre les lignes / Between the lines
Tearing yourself away from prejudice in order to go beyond appearances, looking for the light to reach Knowledge, getting out of ignorance and taking the measure of your power. Yes, you have to give yourself the means to reach an awareness that goes through the access of knowledge. Take your time, have the luxury to think and look for the information. Research and critic analysis of the past are necessary to comprehend our present and establish an inheritage that guarantees the building of our future : Sankôfa ! Back to the future !
YZ, about ‘Amazone’ : ‘I searched for the warriors from the past to talk to those from the future’
In nowadays Republic of Benin once lived a female regiment of warriors, the Amazons of Dahomey, women protected by the King itself. Chosen and enlisted for their physical robustness and strength, they were socially equal to men. Fearless warriors, they decapitated their French enemies through the first years of the French-Dahoméenne war.
[MIXTAPE #2] by DJ Cucurucho
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Clocktower’s Ghetto Biennale: Radyo Shak
In anticipation of the biennale, Clocktower’s Ghetto Biennale: Radyo Shak series airs Haitian musicians, DJ sets, record labels, expats, artists, and more, to give our listeners a complete audio landscape of Haiti in the world today. And here is B(s)ttF’s podcasts selection : ENJOY !
Alva Bernadine : “I am one man subculture”
Alva Bernadine is a mysterious photographer for some, a fetichist for others… The artist from Grenada broke the feminine figure that we usually see in art and made his way into pop culture. Artists like Azealia Banks copy his work in her video «Yung Rapunxel »
Congo Kitoko!
“We like to think that nothing happened between classic art and post-independence modern art.” Contemporary creations as rarely seen in an exhibition, where music, sculpture, photography and comic books honor modern painting made in DRC, with Chief Commissioner André Magnin.
Spotlights on Nollywood!
From last 4 to 7 June, Paris hosted the third edition of the Nigerian Film Festival, the Nollywood Week Film Festival. An opportunity to return to a phenomenon that has propelled the most populous country in Africa on center stage, alongside the Bollywoodian outsider and the overwhelming Hollywood machine. How did Nigeria emerge within the Top 3, despite a substantial lack of resources which have long played against it? Can the advent of a new “Nollywood”, more structured, reverse the trend in cinematography for the coming years?
“The Senegalese cultural scene is currently in full swing!”
As part of the festival Africa in every sense, that took place in Paris from last 22 May to 7 June, the Black(s) To The future’s team met Amadou Tounkara, an artist from Senegal issued from the Fine Arts, having exhibited in Paris, Montreal or Tokyo. Invited by the festival to participate in workshops and live performances during concerts, he also took part in the realization of a fresco on a wall exposed near the Petit Bain in Paris, in collaboration with Ndoye Douts, a Senegal visual artist.
[MIXTAPE #1] by MC C-Imperatriz
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Empire, la série “swag” par excellence ! / Empire, or the swaggest show ever!
The Empire series, which has been surfing the FOX in the US this winter – and everything reversed on its way, it’s little to say! – is a blatant example of how western folk culture is enamored of certain aspects of Afro-American culture, rejecting codes that it reappropriates itself elsewhere. While ostentation has become a full-fledged claim, how to interpret this denial?