Director Louis Chude-Sokei plus The Otolith Group in Manchester, UK on 4/21
Louis Chude-Sokei plus The Otolith Group, April 21, 2018 in Marina’s Cinema, Manchester, UK
“Visiting speaker from The University of Boston, Louis Chude-Sokei, will address racial identity and cultural appropriation using the work of Edouard Glissant, a black author from Martinique who wrote the play Monsieur Toussaint, subject of Louis Henderson’s gallery installation. The play tells the tragic story of the charismatic leader of the Haitian revolution – the only successful slave revolt in history – leading to independence. Captured by Napoleon Bonaparte’s army, he was spirited away to France where he died a year later from malnutrition and pneumonia, locked away in a remote French castle.
This is followed by a screening of a new film from Turner-Prize nominated The Otolith Group, exploring the work of Julius Eastman, the largely unknown queer African-American avant-garde composer, pianist, vocalist and conductor. Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun of The Otolith Group are both attending, to answer any audience questions afterwards.”
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