AfroFutures - Art, and Staying Alive under Global Capitalism | Clementine BurnleyIf we thi
AfroFutures - Art, and Staying Alive under Global Capitalism | Clementine Burnley
If we think of art as a game, maybe even “the beautiful game” then let’s take a look at who is on the playing field? These people range between independently wealthy and homeless. People who do not need to make a living at all or who cannot live without art.
How long players are able to experiment, train, sharpen their vision, live long enough to mature, depends very much on the conditions of their existence.
What are the material conditions under which Afropeople make ART a fulltime or part-time thing they do?
There are also powerful inner voices that speak to afroartists at 3 am, insomniac and worried, of self-doubt and fear. Of criticism, failure, of being judged and found not to be sufficient. Not inspired, trained enough, not being understood, being compared to a norm which isn’t calibrated by Africans.
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