“…The struggle of black people inevitably appear in an intensely cultural form because the social formation in which their distinct political traditions are now manifest has constructed the arena of politics on ground overshadowed by centuries of metropolitan capitalist development, thereby denying them recognition as legitimate politics. Blacks conduct a class struggle in and through race. The BC of race and class cannot be empirically separated, the class character of black struggles is not a result of the fact that blacks are predominantly proletarian, thought this is true…”- (Frank Talk Staff Writers in ‘Azania Salutes Tosh’ – circa 1981)
front cover:
Tosh by Steve Gordon
back cover:
Kippie by Basil Breakey
Bird Song by Kemang Wa Lehulere (Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, 2017)
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Published to accompany Kemang Wa Lehulere's Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year 2017 exhibition, Bird Song, this monograph features an interview with the artist by curator Britta Färber about the show, as well as texts on his wider practice by Carlos Gamerro and Victoria Noorthoorn, Kate Nesin and Elvira Dyangani Ose. The book also incorporates a booklet, or 'Pumflet', made by Wa Lehulere and architect Ilze Wolff, presenting their exchanges around the poetry of Gladys Thomas and the paintings of Gladys Mgudlandlu - research which informs one of the exhibition's key works, the video Homeless Song 5.