artist’s books
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(11) Sampada Aranke Cell Phone
This is Not a Gun
31 Objects
31 Days
31 Voices
Montez Press, London
Artist: Cara Levine
Artist’s Prompt:
Each of these objects was claimed to be mis- taken as a gun by a police officer after shooting an unarmed citizen, holding said object. The particularities of each incident are linked to the name of the object itself. This archive of articles is a resource for you but does not need to be utilized. The objects are ubiquitous, ordinary, and pose no danger.
I encourage you to choose an object that resonates specifically for you. Please respond through your writing. This can be as memory, poem, song, essay, phrase, description, narrative, image, etc. I believe this collection of writings will gain its strength from the description of such objects in their ordinariness, unattached to violence of any kind.
![Ima-Abasi Okon, Put Something in the Air: The E-s-s-e-n-t-i-a-l Mahalia Jackson Blowing Up DJ Pollie Pop's Chopped and Screwed Rendition of Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries— Military-Entertainment Complex Dub [Jericho Speak Life!] (detail), 2017. Phot…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5be4e74431d4df4cfa86f9e0/1541785959130-8RKSDETH7LTKHVJTG7C8/ima+for+website.jpg)
Ima-Abasi Okon, Put Something in the Air: The E-s-s-e-n-t-i-a-l Mahalia Jackson Blowing Up DJ Pollie Pop's Chopped and Screwed Rendition of Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries— Military-Entertainment Complex Dub [Jericho Speak Life!] (detail), 2017. Photo: Bartosz Kali. Courtesy the artist.
Exponential Blackness
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Artist: Ima-Abasi Okon
Artist’s Prompt:
For the publication, I am inviting a selection of artists, writers and
cultural theorists, to take up one of the 25 circumflexes in the title
and personify them by way of a response to what a circumflex is. This can be a speculative endeavour, a creative proposal or the apprehension of a particular event, history or phenomena that could be framed through the lens of a circumflex. The book will be punctuated with images of the installed work, production and it's implementation as a service. Concluding with a number of transcribed conversations between myself and independent curator and researcher Paul Goodwin. These will be presented as a discursive 'on-going open-ended dialogue'.