https://otolithdxg.org Otolith Group DXG Mon, 07 Mar 2022 09:59:29 +0000 https://otolithdxg.org en https://otolithdxg.org/Splash-Image Mon, 07 Mar 2022 09:59:10 +0000 Otolith Group DXG https://otolithdxg.org/Splash-Image <img width="800" height="800" width_o="800" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/012ac6bd907c980aa848e30290007320cafe3b945748f15d68e69cf653b45de8/Otolith-Logo-Colour-Change.gif" data-mid="135700128" border="0" data-scale="30" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/012ac6bd907c980aa848e30290007320cafe3b945748f15d68e69cf653b45de8/Otolith-Logo-Colour-Change.gif" /> <img width="800" height="800" width_o="800" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd94131c93eeb522f9b89de894d0ccf15b5c3614e7b21e38c8a6d0a4163049a8/Otolith-Logo-Colour-Change.gif" data-mid="135700146" border="0" data-scale="30" data-no-zoom 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width_o="1055" height_o="611" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d59e357fddd6317bec499fd032bbeae680091d4d74ca3e11071678949a9ddf1c/Chimurenga.jpg" data-mid="136730715" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d59e357fddd6317bec499fd032bbeae680091d4d74ca3e11071678949a9ddf1c/Chimurenga.jpg" /> <img width="2481" height="1654" width_o="2481" height_o="1654" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a828c300029986858e55d0cd75c23cc7a39158fd764f19c1936e35fe0aa5a808/BIG-XG-XIII-Again_Page_10.png" data-mid="135527961" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a828c300029986858e55d0cd75c23cc7a39158fd764f19c1936e35fe0aa5a808/BIG-XG-XIII-Again_Page_10.png" /> DXG 01︎︎︎ <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c86ae4ace455824270b615092102ecd4de3cbdfb7d63a675789dc97fc3e1f38/DXG01-FredMoten.jpg" data-mid="135527968" border="0" data-scale="78" 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height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1789b27b1c69344f0e3fb67d85a629477b1f0ed83624282a5d36cd29f65d7906/INSTAGRAM20DXG20use20this20one44.jpg" data-mid="135704707" border="0" data-scale="77" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1789b27b1c69344f0e3fb67d85a629477b1f0ed83624282a5d36cd29f65d7906/INSTAGRAM20DXG20use20this20one44.jpg" /> https://otolithdxg.org/about Mon, 07 Mar 2022 09:59:18 +0000 Otolith Group DXG https://otolithdxg.org/about Department of Xenogenesis is a time space convened by The Otolith Collective of Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun. An ongoing space time for convening public educational events teach-outs, seminars, online and offline discussions, performances, screenings and exhibitions with artists, filmmakers, theorists, and musicians. The idea of DXG builds upon Xenogenesis The Otolith Group’s travelling exhibition, which concludes at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in July 2022. DXG: A time-space for convening an indisciplined thought. An ongoing convocation for an indisciplinary curriculum. DXG is series of sequences in an ongoing programme for thinking with the idea of xenogenesis formulated by novelist Octavia Estelle Butler. An idea that runs throughout Octavia Butler’s oeuvre from Patternmaster, 1971, Kindred, 1979, Wild Seed, 1980, the Xenogenesis trilogy of Dawn, 1987, Adulthood Rites,1988 and Imago, 1989, Parable of the Sower, 1993, and Fledgling in 2005.What animates the programme is the aspiration to hold open a time and a space to think with the ideas of Butler as they relate to temporality and science fictions of the present. Think of DXG as a programme for verbalising the letter and the spirit of Octavia Butler’s dangerous visions. Think of DXG as one out of many vectors engaged in thinking with Butler’s fictions for thinking otherwise. Fictions that provide us with thought experiments for thinking otherwise. Fictions of temporal abduction. Fictions of the denaturalization of the human. Fictions of planetary extinction. Fictions of alien intimacy. Fictions of the eugenic imagination. Fictions of racial distinction. Fictions of kinship under duress. Fictions of enforced migration. Fictions of asymmetric love. Fictions of capitalist servitude. Fictions of theocentric hegemony. Fictions of the process philosophy of religion. Fictions of genetic evolution. <img width="3403" height="2269" width_o="3403" height_o="2269" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4bbd3adc2b86aa2350119bd71e6388fedc704c02a76102bef6645a318b62ade9/Christopher-Puma-Smith-Say-Her-Name-March--2019.jpg" data-mid="135528016" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4bbd3adc2b86aa2350119bd71e6388fedc704c02a76102bef6645a318b62ade9/Christopher-Puma-Smith-Say-Her-Name-March--2019.jpg" /> An armed volunteer (aka Ra-Twoine Fields) guards the Say Her Name march under the watchful gaze of Octavia Butler. Photographed at 601 West Broad St, opposite the Otolith Group’s Xenogenesis exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia on 03 July 2020. Photograph by Christopher ‘Puma’ Smith. <img width="460" height="288" width_o="460" height_o="288" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b8399ae4bec9ebca9c76fff6c561b593dff7c9106a196d4ebfc7380951f27fd/portrait.jpeg" data-mid="135528017" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/460/i/8b8399ae4bec9ebca9c76fff6c561b593dff7c9106a196d4ebfc7380951f27fd/portrait.jpeg" /> The Otolith Collective︎︎︎Since 2002, Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar of The Otolith Collective have engaged in the conception and creation of platforms that make public the research that informs their artistic, theoretical and curatorial practice. Throughout this practice runs a precoccupation with shifting the decolonial form of the essayistic towards an idea of science fiction conceived as a method for investigating the present. From this aesthetico-political process emerges a practice of platform-making that draws attention to the urgency of the present in all of its provisional, prospective and planetary dimensions. It is the urgency of this differentiated Now that animates the Collective’s desire to platform the work of Chris Marker, Harun Farocki, Anand Patwardhan, Etel Adnan, Fred Moten, Eyal Sivan, Black Audio Film Collective, Peter Watkins, Sue Clayton, Mark Fisher and Justin Barton, Silvia Maglioni &amp; Graeme Thomson, Lamia Joreige, Naeem Mohaiemen, Chimurenga Library, Emma Wolukau-Wanamba, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Lungiswa Gqunta, Tony &nbsp;Cokes, Rania Stephan, Ayo Akingbade, Rehana Zaman and Onyeka Igwe throughout and beyond the UK. What unites these convenings and convocations is the necessity of bringing viewers face to face with the threat of images and the challenge of sounds so as to create the conditions for intervention in the colonised times and racialised spaces of our catastrophic present. Partner Organisations: Royal College of Art︎︎︎ Royal College of Art School of Architecture hosts its International Lecture Series 2021-22 with the theme ‘Re-possession’ hosting a diverse range of guests with topics such as ‘Geological Kinship and Resistance’, ‘The Translocal Politics of (Anti-)Apartheid’ ‘Material Gestures’ and ‘Making Non-State Space: Rojava Solidarity Lecture’. Cafe OTO︎︎︎Cafe OTO provides a home for creative new music that exists outside of the mainstream with an evening programme of adventurous live music seven nights a week. LUX︎︎︎ LUX is an international arts agency that supports and promotes artists’ moving image practices and the ideas that surround them. Founded in 2002 as a charity and not-for-profit limited company, the organisation builds on a long lineage of predecessors (The London Film-Makers’ Co-operative, London Video Arts and The Lux Centre) which stretch back to the 1960s. BxNU Institute︎︎︎ The BxNU Institute supports experimental artistic and curatorial research and practice. It is a collaboration between Northumbria University and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art︎︎︎ BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art creates and produces exhibitions, activities and opportunities that explore understanding of the world through diverse contemporary art by artists from across the world. Located on Gateshead quayside, we have 2,600 square metres of exhibition space dedicated to the art and artists of today and tomorrow. <img width="4125" height="2271" width_o="4125" height_o="2271" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76459ed1d6a981037b175e904f29f378c327bcd7255d829e260a45f33f99dd47/RCA_yellow_1.png" data-mid="135590091" border="0" data-scale="100" data-no-zoom data-icon-mode src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/76459ed1d6a981037b175e904f29f378c327bcd7255d829e260a45f33f99dd47/RCA_yellow_1.png" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="1000" height="500" width_o="1000" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ac6a3de6a38c0292ad3668fb0c36e7f7db411ceaf2c654ea753747664a2451e/oto.orange.png" data-mid="135584466" border="0" data-scale="6" data-no-zoom="true" data-icon-mode src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ac6a3de6a38c0292ad3668fb0c36e7f7db411ceaf2c654ea753747664a2451e/oto.orange.png" /> <img width="1040" height="800" width_o="1040" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d8539375af0fcbe86eb970a19707e9f95d3815c9542bd598fb9c34d9077eee6/LUX-orange.png" data-mid="135584465" border="0" data-scale="100" data-no-zoom data-icon-mode src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d8539375af0fcbe86eb970a19707e9f95d3815c9542bd598fb9c34d9077eee6/LUX-orange.png" /> &nbsp; <img width="2717" height="313" width_o="2717" height_o="313" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7f2b8f73422e83c3e417ed3e309bb5f32196c5c0f583369231e6d3947c007b5/BALTIC-BxNU-logo-lock-up_2019_orange.png" data-mid="135583999" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" data-icon-mode src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7f2b8f73422e83c3e417ed3e309bb5f32196c5c0f583369231e6d3947c007b5/BALTIC-BxNU-logo-lock-up_2019_orange.png" /> https://otolithdxg.org/collaborators Mon, 07 Mar 2022 09:59:19 +0000 Otolith Group DXG https://otolithdxg.org/collaborators Black Quantum Futurism ︎︎︎ <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf64388ce6b8e5a5198d330c5c1347d7736b619985cf2b6f68cddc60c052250d/DXG02-RasheedahPhilips.jpg" data-mid="135528037" border="0" alt="Black Quantum Futurism (BQF) is a new approach to living and experiencing reality by way of the manipulation of space-time in order to see into possible futures, and/or collapse space-time into a desired future in order to bring about that future&rsquo;s reality. This vision and practice derives its facets, tenets, and qualities from quantum physics and Black/African cultural traditions of consciousness, time, and space. Under a BQF intersectional time orientation, the past and future are not cut off from the present - both dimensions have influence over the whole of our lives, who we are and who we become at any particular point in space-time. Through various writing, music, film, visual art, and creative research projects, BQF Collective also explores personal, cultural, familial, and communal cycles of experience, and solutions for transforming negative cycles into positive ones using artistic and wholistic methods of healing. Our work focuses on recovery, collection, and preservation of communal memories, histories, and stories." data-caption="Black Quantum Futurism (BQF) is a new approach to living and experiencing reality by way of the manipulation of space-time in order to see into possible futures, and/or collapse space-time into a desired future in order to bring about that future’s reality. This vision and practice derives its facets, tenets, and qualities from quantum physics and Black/African cultural traditions of consciousness, time, and space. Under a BQF intersectional time orientation, the past and future are not cut off from the present - both dimensions have influence over the whole of our lives, who we are and who we become at any particular point in space-time. Through various writing, music, film, visual art, and creative research projects, BQF Collective also explores personal, cultural, familial, and communal cycles of experience, and solutions for transforming negative cycles into positive ones using artistic and wholistic methods of healing. Our work focuses on recovery, collection, and preservation of communal memories, histories, and stories." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf64388ce6b8e5a5198d330c5c1347d7736b619985cf2b6f68cddc60c052250d/DXG02-RasheedahPhilips.jpg" /> Denise Ferreira da Silva ︎︎︎ <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1789b27b1c69344f0e3fb67d85a629477b1f0ed83624282a5d36cd29f65d7906/INSTAGRAM20DXG20use20this20one44.jpg" data-mid="135685720" border="0" alt="Denise Ferreira da Silva is a Professor and Director of the Social Justice Institute-GRSJ at the University of British Columbia. Her books include Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007), A D&iacute;vida Impagavel (2019), Unpayable Debt (2022) and co-editor (with Paula Chakravartty) of Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (2013). Her several articles have been published in leading interdisciplinary journals, such as Social Text, Theory, Culture &amp; Society, PhiloSOPHIA, Griffith Law Review, Theory &amp; Event, The Black Scholar, to name a few. Her artistic works includes the films Serpent Rain (2016), 4Waters-Deep Implicancy (2018), Soot Breath/Corpus Infinitum (2020), in collaboration with Arjuna Neuman; and the relational art practices Poethical Readings and Sensing Salon, in collaboration with Valentina Desideri." data-caption="Denise Ferreira da Silva is a Professor and Director of the Social Justice Institute-GRSJ at the University of British Columbia. Her books include Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007), A Dívida Impagavel (2019), Unpayable Debt (2022) and co-editor (with Paula Chakravartty) of Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (2013). Her several articles have been published in leading interdisciplinary journals, such as Social Text, Theory, Culture &amp; Society, PhiloSOPHIA, Griffith Law Review, Theory &amp; Event, The Black Scholar, to name a few. Her artistic works includes the films Serpent Rain (2016), 4Waters-Deep Implicancy (2018), Soot Breath/Corpus Infinitum (2020), in collaboration with Arjuna Neuman; and the relational art practices Poethical Readings and Sensing Salon, in collaboration with Valentina Desideri." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1789b27b1c69344f0e3fb67d85a629477b1f0ed83624282a5d36cd29f65d7906/INSTAGRAM20DXG20use20this20one44.jpg" /> Fred Moten ︎︎︎ <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c86ae4ace455824270b615092102ecd4de3cbdfb7d63a675789dc97fc3e1f38/DXG01-FredMoten.jpg" data-mid="135528036" border="0" alt="Fred Moten works in the Departments of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University. His latest book, written with Stefano Harney, is All Incomplete (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, 2021." data-caption="Fred Moten works in the Departments of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University. His latest book, written with Stefano Harney, is All Incomplete (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, 2021." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c86ae4ace455824270b615092102ecd4de3cbdfb7d63a675789dc97fc3e1f38/DXG01-FredMoten.jpg" /> Dr Andrea Phillips ︎︎︎ <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/643d36dcd57387eb58592b93fa880f1fc7d9f7a0592b32096de5f111129e7b46/DXG-Andrea-Philips.jpg" data-mid="135528041" border="0" alt="Dr Andrea Phillips is BALTIC Professor and Director of BxNU Research Institute, Northumbria University &amp; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. She lectures and writes about the economic and social construction of public value within contemporary art, the manipulation of forms of participation and the potential of forms of political, architectural and social reorganisation within artistic and curatorial culture. In her current role she has developed a collaborative space in Newcastle called the Experimental Studio where people from different disciplines &ndash; from the university, the BALTIC and from outside these institutions &ndash; can come together and test out ideas in a safe setting. Andrea works closely with artists, curators and arts institutions internationally. She has published books and articles on social concerns in relation to contemporary art, focusing in particular on education and organization. She is currently developing a research project about the history of the UK&rsquo;s Community Arts Movement, and an international project about Settlement infrastructures. Andrea is writing a book, Contemporary Art and the Production of Inequality, which will bring together discussions on the politics of public administration and management with recent analyses of arts institutions, alongside debates on value (public and private). This is informed by research into the political functions of the art market and personal experience of organising, lobbying, and governing contemporary arts institutions, arts education institutions, and working directly with artists" data-caption="Dr Andrea Phillips is BALTIC Professor and Director of BxNU Research Institute, Northumbria University &amp; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. She lectures and writes about the economic and social construction of public value within contemporary art, the manipulation of forms of participation and the potential of forms of political, architectural and social reorganisation within artistic and curatorial culture. In her current role she has developed a collaborative space in Newcastle called the Experimental Studio where people from different disciplines – from the university, the BALTIC and from outside these institutions – can come together and test out ideas in a safe setting. Andrea works closely with artists, curators and arts institutions internationally. She has published books and articles on social concerns in relation to contemporary art, focusing in particular on education and organization. She is currently developing a research project about the history of the UK’s Community Arts Movement, and an international project about Settlement infrastructures. Andrea is writing a book, Contemporary Art and the Production of Inequality, which will bring together discussions on the politics of public administration and management with recent analyses of arts institutions, alongside debates on value (public and private). This is informed by research into the political functions of the art market and personal experience of organising, lobbying, and governing contemporary arts institutions, arts education institutions, and working directly with artists" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/643d36dcd57387eb58592b93fa880f1fc7d9f7a0592b32096de5f111129e7b46/DXG-Andrea-Philips.jpg" /> Amber Film Collective ︎︎︎ <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f15564a070be117cbb58dcbfd5241cce73cc9ebe5b95c42f687d33fd2e0bedf6/DXG_Amber-Collective.jpg" data-mid="135528040" border="0" alt="Amber Film &amp; Photography Collective came together as a film &amp; photography collective in 1968. Their work has focused on documenting working class and marginalised lives and landscapes in North East England, but in 1977 we opened Side Gallery, which is committed to celebrating the best in the wider tradition of humanist documentary photography. The AmberSide Collection grows out of the work Amber produce, support and collect: Over 20,000 photographs, 100 films, 10,000 slides; a unique network of 400 stories. In 2011 Amber&rsquo;s films and collective member Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen&rsquo;s photographs were inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World register as &lsquo;of outstanding national value and importance to the United Kingdom&lsquo;. AmberSide Trust was set up in 2015 to secure the collection and support the work." data-caption="Amber Film &amp; Photography Collective came together as a film &amp; photography collective in 1968. Their work has focused on documenting working class and marginalised lives and landscapes in North East England, but in 1977 we opened Side Gallery, which is committed to celebrating the best in the wider tradition of humanist documentary photography. The AmberSide Collection grows out of the work Amber produce, support and collect: Over 20,000 photographs, 100 films, 10,000 slides; a unique network of 400 stories. In 2011 Amber’s films and collective member Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s photographs were inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World register as ‘of outstanding national value and importance to the United Kingdom‘. AmberSide Trust was set up in 2015 to secure the collection and support the work." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f15564a070be117cbb58dcbfd5241cce73cc9ebe5b95c42f687d33fd2e0bedf6/DXG_Amber-Collective.jpg" /> https://otolithdxg.org/sequences Mon, 07 Mar 2022 09:59:21 +0000 Otolith Group DXG https://otolithdxg.org/sequences DXG 01: Our Xenogenetic Gift: Thinking Octavia Butler with Fred Moten Fred Moten in conversation with Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo EshunModerated by Andrea Phillips at BxNU 13 February 2022 | 4pm GMT | Online&nbsp; ︎︎︎Tickets︎︎︎Watch Online <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c86ae4ace455824270b615092102ecd4de3cbdfb7d63a675789dc97fc3e1f38/DXG01-FredMoten.jpg" data-mid="135528060" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c86ae4ace455824270b615092102ecd4de3cbdfb7d63a675789dc97fc3e1f38/DXG01-FredMoten.jpg" /> DXG 02: Octonionic Constellation: Thinking Octavia Butler with Rasheedah Phillips Rasheedah Phillips in conversation with Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar 20 February 2022 | 8.30pm GMT | Live &amp; Online Café Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, London E8 3DL ︎︎︎Tickets ︎︎︎Watch Online <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf382b0a1fd6a358e466c53f4e8db64054f3451bd6330781c2cfe723afd00060/DXG_Rasheeda-Phillips.jpg" data-mid="135528061" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf382b0a1fd6a358e466c53f4e8db64054f3451bd6330781c2cfe723afd00060/DXG_Rasheeda-Phillips.jpg" /> DXG 03: INFINITY minus Infinity (2020) screening and discussion Amber Collective in conversation with Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun of The Otolith Group Moderated by Andrea Phillips at BxNU Time TBC GMT | Live &amp; Online BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead &nbsp;︎︎︎Tickets︎︎︎Watch Online <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32e52ceb5bccefa3c942e4f9e9b37a6732eba5d18821c9a51f3ab097bdbaecc7/INSTAGRAM-DXG-use-this-one_EB-update3.jpg" data-mid="135528064" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32e52ceb5bccefa3c942e4f9e9b37a6732eba5d18821c9a51f3ab097bdbaecc7/INSTAGRAM-DXG-use-this-one_EB-update3.jpg" /> DXG 04: Imaging of the World announcing a Black Feminist Poethics: Thinking Octavia Butler with Denise Ferreira da Silva Denise Ferreira da Silva in conversation with Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar&nbsp; 13 March 2022 | Time TBC GMT | Live &amp; Online Café Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, London E8 3DL ︎︎︎Tickets︎︎︎Live Stream <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1789b27b1c69344f0e3fb67d85a629477b1f0ed83624282a5d36cd29f65d7906/INSTAGRAM20DXG20use20this20one44.jpg" data-mid="135698425" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1789b27b1c69344f0e3fb67d85a629477b1f0ed83624282a5d36cd29f65d7906/INSTAGRAM20DXG20use20this20one44.jpg" /> Curated and produced by The Otolith Collective, London, supported by the BxNU Institute, a collaboration between BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Northumbria University, the Royal College of Art School of Architecture International Lecture Series, Café OTO and LUX. https://otolithdxg.org/library Mon, 07 Mar 2022 09:59:20 +0000 Otolith Group DXG https://otolithdxg.org/library Fred Moten, Black and Blur, 2017&nbsp;︎︎︎ Fred Moten, Stolen Life, 2017&nbsp;︎︎︎ Fred Moten, The Universal Machine, 2017&nbsp;︎︎︎ Saidiya V. Hartman, Notes on Feminisms, 2019 ︎︎︎ Saidiya V. Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey across the Atlantic Slave Route, 2006 ︎︎︎ Denise Ferreira da Silva, Unpayable Debt: Reading Scenes of Value Against the Arrow of Time, 2014 ︎︎︎ Denise Ferreira da Silva, Toward a Black Feminist Poethics, 2014 ︎︎︎ Denise Ferreira da Silva, Towards a Global Idea of Race, 2007&nbsp;︎︎︎ Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, 2016&nbsp;︎︎︎ George E. Lewis, A Power Greater than Itself: The ACCM and American Experimental Music, 2007&nbsp;︎︎︎ Fred Moten, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, 2003&nbsp;︎︎︎ Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocene or None, 2018&nbsp;︎︎︎ &nbsp; https://otolithdxg.org/sequences-dxg01 Mon, 07 Mar 2022 09:59:25 +0000 Otolith Group DXG https://otolithdxg.org/sequences-dxg01 DXG 01: Our Xenogenetic Gift: Thinking Octavia Butler with Fred Moten&nbsp;Fred Moten in conversation with Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun Moderated by Andrea Phillips at BxNU 13 February 2022 | 4pm GMT | Online ︎︎︎Watch Our Xenogenetic Gift is the first in an ongoing public programme convened by DXG for thinking with the idea of xenogenesis formulated by novelist Octavia Estelle Butler. An idea that runs throughout Octavia Butler’s oeuvre from Patternmaster, 1971, Kindred, 1979, Wild Seed, 1980, the Xenogenesis trilogy of Dawn, 1987, Adulthood Rites,1988 and Imago, 1989, Parable of the Sower, 1993, and Fledgling in 2005. A title adopted from Fred Moten’s consent to be a single being: Stolen Life from 2018. On 13 February 2022, DXG convenes a conversation around the writing of Octavia Butler with academic, poet and theorist Fred Moten. A conversation that spirals around the following sentence from consent not to be a single being: Stolen Life in 2018:&nbsp; “The generative breaks into the normative discourses that it found(ed). They weren’t there until it got there, as some changes made to previous insistence, which means first things aren’t first: Zo just wants to travel, to cities. Do you want some? Can I have some? (Octavia Butler might have called it the oncological difference; she sounds disposession as our xenogenetic gift; migrating out from the outside, always leaving without origin.)”&nbsp; Fred Moten works in the Departments of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature at New York University. His latest book, written with Stefano Harney, is All Incomplete (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, 2021). DXG with Fred Moten_FINAL from LUX Moving Image on Vimeo. Other Events DXG 02&nbsp;︎︎︎ <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf382b0a1fd6a358e466c53f4e8db64054f3451bd6330781c2cfe723afd00060/DXG_Rasheeda-Phillips.jpg" data-mid="135528097" border="0" data-scale="78" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf382b0a1fd6a358e466c53f4e8db64054f3451bd6330781c2cfe723afd00060/DXG_Rasheeda-Phillips.jpg" /> DXG 03&nbsp;︎︎︎ <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32e52ceb5bccefa3c942e4f9e9b37a6732eba5d18821c9a51f3ab097bdbaecc7/INSTAGRAM-DXG-use-this-one_EB-update3.jpg" data-mid="135528100" border="0" data-scale="79" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32e52ceb5bccefa3c942e4f9e9b37a6732eba5d18821c9a51f3ab097bdbaecc7/INSTAGRAM-DXG-use-this-one_EB-update3.jpg" /> DXG 04&nbsp;︎︎︎ <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1789b27b1c69344f0e3fb67d85a629477b1f0ed83624282a5d36cd29f65d7906/INSTAGRAM20DXG20use20this20one44.jpg" data-mid="135687104" border="0" data-scale="79" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1789b27b1c69344f0e3fb67d85a629477b1f0ed83624282a5d36cd29f65d7906/INSTAGRAM20DXG20use20this20one44.jpg" /> https://otolithdxg.org/sequences-dxg02 Mon, 07 Mar 2022 09:59:26 +0000 Otolith Group DXG https://otolithdxg.org/sequences-dxg02 DXG 02: Octonion Constellaion: Thinking Octavia Butler with Rasheedah PhillipsRasheedah Phillips in conversation with Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar 20 February 2022 | 8.30pm GMT | Live &amp; Online Café Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, London E8 3DL ︎︎︎Watch Online Octonionic Constellation&nbsp;is the second in an ongoing public programme convened by DXG for thinking with the idea of xenogenesis formulated by novelist Octavia Estelle Butler. What animates the idea of Octonionic Constellation is the aspiration to hold open a time and a space to think with the ideas of Octavia Butler. On 20 February 2022, DXG convenes a discussion and listening session around the writing of Octavia Butler with Rasheedah Phillips, co-founder of Black Quantum Futurism at Café Oto. A time/space that returns to and departs from the Constellation 8/∞ ( Octonionic Constellation), a ‘Sonic celebration of OCTAVia eSTELLE’ produced by Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa of Black Quantum Futurism Collective on 11th January 2015. Rasheedah Phillips is a queer housing advocate, parent, writer, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural producer who uses web-based projects, glitch art, zines, short film, archival practices, experimental non-fiction, speculative fiction, printmaking, performance, social practice, installation and creative research to explore the construct of time, temporalities, and community futurisms through a Black futurist cultural lens and experience. Phillips is the founder of The AfroFuturist Affair, founding member of Metropolarity Queer Speculative Fiction Collective, co-founder of Black Quantum Futurism, co-creator of the award winning Community Futures Lab, and creator Black Women Temporal Portal and Black Time Belt projects. Recognized as a national expert in housing policy, Phillips is a 2016 graduate of Shriver Center Racial Justice Institute, 2018 Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, and 2021 PolicyLink Ambassador for Health Equity. As part of BQF and as a solo artist, Phillips has been awarded a CERN Artists Residency, Vera List Center Fellowship, A Blade of Grass Fellowship, Velocity Fund Fellowship, among others, and has exhibited, presented at, been in residence, and performed at Institute of Contemporary Art London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Serpentine Gallery, Red Bull Arts, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Akademie Solitude, Manifesta 13 Biennale, and more. <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf382b0a1fd6a358e466c53f4e8db64054f3451bd6330781c2cfe723afd00060/DXG_Rasheeda-Phillips.jpg" data-mid="135528112" border="0" data-scale="48" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf382b0a1fd6a358e466c53f4e8db64054f3451bd6330781c2cfe723afd00060/DXG_Rasheeda-Phillips.jpg" /> Other Events DXG 01 ︎︎︎ <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c86ae4ace455824270b615092102ecd4de3cbdfb7d63a675789dc97fc3e1f38/DXG01-FredMoten.jpg" data-mid="135528113" border="0" data-scale="79" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c86ae4ace455824270b615092102ecd4de3cbdfb7d63a675789dc97fc3e1f38/DXG01-FredMoten.jpg" /> DXG 03 ︎︎︎ <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32e52ceb5bccefa3c942e4f9e9b37a6732eba5d18821c9a51f3ab097bdbaecc7/INSTAGRAM-DXG-use-this-one_EB-update3.jpg" data-mid="135528115" border="0" data-scale="78" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32e52ceb5bccefa3c942e4f9e9b37a6732eba5d18821c9a51f3ab097bdbaecc7/INSTAGRAM-DXG-use-this-one_EB-update3.jpg" /> DXG 04 ︎︎︎ <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1789b27b1c69344f0e3fb67d85a629477b1f0ed83624282a5d36cd29f65d7906/INSTAGRAM20DXG20use20this20one44.jpg" data-mid="135686998" border="0" data-scale="77" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1789b27b1c69344f0e3fb67d85a629477b1f0ed83624282a5d36cd29f65d7906/INSTAGRAM20DXG20use20this20one44.jpg" /> https://otolithdxg.org/sequences-dxg03 Mon, 07 Mar 2022 09:59:27 +0000 Otolith Group DXG https://otolithdxg.org/sequences-dxg03 DXG 03: INFINITY minus Infinity (2020) screening and discussionAmber Collective in conversation with Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun of The Otolith Group Moderated by Andrea Phillips at BxNU 2 March 2022 | Time TBC GMT | Live &amp; Online BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead ︎︎︎Watch Online On the 2nd March 2022, the third event in the DXG public programme will be a screening of the Otolith Group’s film work INFINITY minus Infinity. The screening and discussion will be hosted at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. The Amber Film &amp; Photography Collective will be in conversation with the Otolith Group’s Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, moderated by Andrea Phillips. INFINITY minus Infinity draws on several inspirations: the modernist verse of the Jamaican poet Una Marson, the alluvial invocations of the Martinican philosopher and poet Édouard Glissant, the black feminist poetics of the Brazilian philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva, and the racial formation of geology theorised by British geographer Kathryn Yusoff amongst others in order to envision a black feminist cosmos animated by the principles of mathematical nihilism. The phrase “hostile environment” invokes the covert policy of targeting migrants enacted by the UK Conservative government since 2014. It stands for the criminalization of the Afro-Caribbean women and men that migrated to Britain in the 1950s to help reconstruct its industrial infrastructure after the war. The recent effort to detain and deport the women and men of the “Windrush generation”—so called because they followed in the wake of the men that emigrated to Britain from the Caribbean on board the HMS Empire Windrush in 1948—reveals the commitment of the British State to disarticulating the forms of attachment and belonging of Afro-Caribbean settlement that helped decolonize the British empire from within.INFINITY minus Infinity extends its confrontation with the Tory policy of the ongoing hostile environment into an interscalar movement between times and spaces. It brings together dance, performance, music, recital, and digital animation to compose a transhistorical zone in which the unpayable debts of racial capitalism cannot be separated from the ongoing crimes of climate catastrophe.INFINITY minus Infinity enacts the past distress, present duress and future dread of the British Capitalocene through the assembly of a chorus of transtemporal deities whose utterances, expressions, gestures, and movements allude to the accumulated times and spaces of the United Kingdom’s environmental hostility. INFINITY minus Infinity confronts the compounded timelines of the afterlife of slavery enacted by British imperial capitalism with the forces and the fictions of 21st Century black feminist digital cosmology. INFINITIY minus Infinity was commissioned by Sharjah Architecture Triennial in 2019 and co-produced with Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83b0f9fc1f97c7617a951c6cf82a1cae2df89f09dc7a3c106cfca121a48b01b3/INFINITY-IMAGE.jpg" data-mid="135528126" border="0" data-scale="82" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83b0f9fc1f97c7617a951c6cf82a1cae2df89f09dc7a3c106cfca121a48b01b3/INFINITY-IMAGE.jpg" /> INFINITY Minus Infinity, The Otolith Group, watch trailer&nbsp;︎︎︎ Other Events DXG 01 ︎︎︎ <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c86ae4ace455824270b615092102ecd4de3cbdfb7d63a675789dc97fc3e1f38/DXG01-FredMoten.jpg" data-mid="135528127" border="0" data-scale="79" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c86ae4ace455824270b615092102ecd4de3cbdfb7d63a675789dc97fc3e1f38/DXG01-FredMoten.jpg" /> DXG 02 ︎︎︎ <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf382b0a1fd6a358e466c53f4e8db64054f3451bd6330781c2cfe723afd00060/DXG_Rasheeda-Phillips.jpg" data-mid="135528129" border="0" data-scale="79" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf382b0a1fd6a358e466c53f4e8db64054f3451bd6330781c2cfe723afd00060/DXG_Rasheeda-Phillips.jpg" /> DXG 04 ︎︎︎ <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1789b27b1c69344f0e3fb67d85a629477b1f0ed83624282a5d36cd29f65d7906/INSTAGRAM20DXG20use20this20one44.jpg" data-mid="135686912" border="0" data-scale="79" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1789b27b1c69344f0e3fb67d85a629477b1f0ed83624282a5d36cd29f65d7906/INSTAGRAM20DXG20use20this20one44.jpg" /> https://otolithdxg.org/sequences-dxg04 Mon, 07 Mar 2022 09:59:29 +0000 Otolith Group DXG https://otolithdxg.org/sequences-dxg04 DXG 04: Our Imaging of Political Existence: Thinking Octavia Butler with Denise Ferreira Da SilvaDenise Ferreira da Silva in conversation with Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar&nbsp; 13 March 2022 | Time 7PM GMT | Lux &amp; Online Café Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, London E8 3DL ︎︎︎Buy Tickets︎︎︎Watch Live Stream On 13 March 2022, DXG convenes a conversation around the writing of Octavia Butler with academic, theorist and artist Denise Ferreira da Silva. A conversation that thinks with Ferreira da Silva’s ongoing engagement with Octavia Butler’s fictions. In Accumulation, Dispossession, and Debt: The Racial Logic of Global Capitalism – An Introduction, with Paula Chakravartty in 2012, Towards a Black Feminist Poethics: The Quest(ion) of Blackness Towards the End of the World in 2014 and her forthcoming volume Unpayable Debt, 2022, Ferreira da Silva approaches Dana in Kindred, Anyanwu in Wild Seed, and Lauren Olamina in Parable of the Sower as guides for our ‘imaging of political existence’. Join us to discuss the ways in which Octavia Butler’s science fiction dialogues with Denise Ferreira da Silva’s imagination of the quest and the question of a black feminist poethics. <img width="3071" height="4134" width_o="3071" height_o="4134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd132a62baad0f8299d4af7719c39040e627bdf0e8270a222f9b412fd545d02d/Denise_circle.png" data-mid="135701471" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd132a62baad0f8299d4af7719c39040e627bdf0e8270a222f9b412fd545d02d/Denise_circle.png" /> <img width="686" height="386" width_o="686" height_o="386" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51ac21445be92ed5403130c0a05f65dbc400cf92c4057b1c87657c4695f32879/Infinity---Infinity-symbol-red.png" data-mid="135528150" border="0" data-scale="87" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/686/i/51ac21445be92ed5403130c0a05f65dbc400cf92c4057b1c87657c4695f32879/Infinity---Infinity-symbol-red.png" /> Other Events DXG 01 ︎︎︎ <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c86ae4ace455824270b615092102ecd4de3cbdfb7d63a675789dc97fc3e1f38/DXG01-FredMoten.jpg" data-mid="135528144" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c86ae4ace455824270b615092102ecd4de3cbdfb7d63a675789dc97fc3e1f38/DXG01-FredMoten.jpg" /> DXG 02 ︎︎︎ <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf382b0a1fd6a358e466c53f4e8db64054f3451bd6330781c2cfe723afd00060/DXG_Rasheeda-Phillips.jpg" data-mid="135528146" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf382b0a1fd6a358e466c53f4e8db64054f3451bd6330781c2cfe723afd00060/DXG_Rasheeda-Phillips.jpg" /> DXG 03 ︎︎︎ <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32e52ceb5bccefa3c942e4f9e9b37a6732eba5d18821c9a51f3ab097bdbaecc7/INSTAGRAM-DXG-use-this-one_EB-update3.jpg" data-mid="135528149" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32e52ceb5bccefa3c942e4f9e9b37a6732eba5d18821c9a51f3ab097bdbaecc7/INSTAGRAM-DXG-use-this-one_EB-update3.jpg" />