No New Theories by Kameelah Janan Rasheed

No New Theories

by Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Printed Matter, Inc. · 2019 · Softcover

An artist's book that sets xerox abstractions, text fragments and photographs around a long interview, and treats learning and unlearning as a spiritual, political, ecological and cognitive process.

Rasheed places her own writing, autocorrect algorithms and Oulipian poems beside images from her personal archive, popular culture, zoological journals and quranic verses. At the centre is a conversation with Jessica Lynne, co-founder of ARTS.BLACK, reworked with annotations, citations and excerpts from Samuel R. Delany, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Emily Dickinson and others. Printed Matter published it in 2019 as a 256-page sewn softcover in an edition of 1,000.

The book extends the accretive, associative installation work Rasheed is known for. Its title holds that Blackness is a multivalent, porous experience that cannot be neatly theorized. Rasheed and Lynne take up epistemology, pedagogy, research, patience and fatigue.

Details

Publisher Printed Matter, Inc.
Archive kameelahr.com
Year 2019
ISBN 9780894390951
Format Softcover
Pages 256
Dimensions 23cm × 15.5cm
Language English
Edition Edition of 1,000

Notes

Library holds 2 copies. The publisher link goes to The Photographers' Gallery bookshop listing. Sewn binding with a high-gloss silkscreen cover per Printed Matter's listing. ISBN from the Open Library record (9780894390951); Open Library gives 257 pages against 256 from the publisher and artist. Some sources date the book 2020. Identified from a spine photograph; edition not checked against the copy.

Contributors

Contributors Jessica Lynne (Interview)

Tags

Art Artist Book Black Studies Xerox Interviews Contemporary Art
From the record Artist Book Published in the 2010s