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Thee Mistakes E.P.

June 21, 2016 Thee Mistakes

Thee Mistakes was an accident. It did not slip from our tongues fraught with meaning or even mystery; not at first. Much like the systems under which we all live, it was a small idea at first, a placeholder for something better that was yet to come. And like those systems, it stuck. It caught on; we ran with it.

Upon some reflection, though, it came to represent a certain truth. It had felt right because our existence, our collaboration, and the fruits of our discourse highlighted that there were errors, in the system, in our art, our lives, and that we, somehow, had begun to address them.

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In Audio, June 2016 Tags music, carbondale, experimental, Afropunk, femme, post-punk, two piece, riot grrrl, feminism, antiracism

Art Against Global Apartheid

May 23, 2016 The Editors

Ferguson, Missouri

The sign, homemade, carried by a protester, reads “Ferguson to Gaza, Intifada, Intifada.” The slogan is more than a sentiment, more than a simple but powerful statement of solidarity. It is all of these things, but much more too. It is an explicit recognition of the world’s reality, far beyond Ferguson or Gaza.

"Apartheid" in today's world does not describe just a particular legal circumstance in this or that corner of the globe. It is, in varied and intricate ways, a fact of daily life under neoliberalism. Global capital communicates to us in any political, economic or aesthetic language it can muster: "This world is not yours, and you do not belong here."

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In Editorial, May 2016 Tags geography, art, music, Afrofuturism, Afropunk, racism, police brutality

On "New" Afrocentric Modernism

February 29, 2016 Alexander Billet
Left: Sun Ra, Right: Ebony Bones

Left: Sun Ra, Right: Ebony Bones

There is no getting around the popularity or cultural clout that both Afropunk and Afrofuturism have in contemporary culture. It’s been over ten years since James Spooner’s film on Afropunk came out, the website that bears its name is visited by hundreds of thousands each month, and the yearly festival recently expanded from Brooklyn to Atlanta and will soon be making its way to Paris. Afrofuturism, for its part, has become quite trendy in certain circles, with advertising companies attempting to cash in on its aesthetic. It is not difficult to see its influence in a growing array of artists.

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In Commentary, February 2016 Tags Alexander Billet, racism, race, futurism, surrealism, music, punk, popular avant-garde, Afrofuturism, Afropunk, literature, radical history, colonialism

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