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Sixth Annual Robert Rosenblum Lecture: “Solar Ethics” by Huey Copeland
Monday, April 4, 2016
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Since his death in 1993, the musician, writer, and composer Sun Ra—a self-styled intergalactic prophet hailing from Saturn by way of ancient Egypt—has become a frequently referenced touchstone for cultural producers of various stripes. In this lecture, art historian Huey Copeland explored Ra’s representations of space-time and their implications for contemporary artists, such as Edgar Arceneaux, Glenn Ligon, and Mai-Thu Perret, who identify with his utopian aspirations and who have subsequently taken up the challenge thrown down by his life and work. While commentators have made much of Ra’s brilliant troping on black alienation, particularly his embrace of outer space, equally important to his intellectual project was a radical rethinking of the logics of Western temporality. Ultimately, Copeland argued, Ra’s thinking points us toward new criteria for the evaluation of recent art that take seriously both the recursiveness and simultaneity of time as it unfolds within, beyond, and across the black world.
Photos: Chad Heird
For more information about our Annual Robert Rosenblum Lecture series, visit www.guggenheim.org
I couldn't take my eyes on this performer -- and it's killing me that I didn't write her name down – she played a meaty saxophone with the David Boykin Expanse at today’s Sun Ra Symposium at the Hyde Park Art Center.
Here's a slideshow of the whole day »
Update: Thanks to Salt Herring we've ID'd the performer -- Chinatsu Nakano. Thanks SH!
Another update: Appeared in Gaper's Block Rearview on 13 November 2006.
Some ideas put forward for a possible design project to create artwork to go alongside a Sun Ra track called 'Love in outer space'
Some ideas put forward for a possible design project to create artwork to go alongside a Sun Ra track called 'Love in outer space'
Barre - Songhoy Blues
Anything - Adrianne Lenker
Find You Ride - Magik Markers
Song To A Refugee - Diana Jones
Crimson Star - Hen Ogledd
Spit - Fuzz
Don't Shy Away - Loma
Gliding Through - Garcia Peoples
I Want To Marry You - Hello Forever
I Was Alone - Andy Bell
Get A Grip (Featuring Maria Uzor from Sink Ya Teeth) - A Certain Ratio
Video Game - Sufjan Stevens
Dorothy's Dance - SunRa Arkestra
Smart-Ass Reply - Jim White
Thirty Tulips - Mary Lattimore
New soundtrack on Mixcloud. Psych Funk, Black Power free Jazz, Acid Soul, Electronic Composition n Soundtracks. SolAr sounds.
SUN RA ARKESTRA feat. MARSHALL ALLEN - 13.06.2014 - Jazzit Musik Club Salzburg - www.jazzit.at - weitere Fotos unter: www.jazzfoto.at/konzertfotos14/sun_ra_arkestra/Index.htm
Besetzung:
Marshall Allen: cond, sax, fl
Tara Middleton: voc
Cecil Brooks: tp
Vincent Chancey: flgh
Knoel Scott: voc, sax, dance
James Stuart: sax
Danny Ray Thompson: sax
Dave Davis: tb
Farid Barron: p
Dave Hotep: e-g
Stanley Morgan: perc
Elson Nascimento: perc, surdo
Tyler Mitchell: b
Wayne Anthony Smith Jr.: dr
VIDEOS:
Live at All Tomorrow's Parties 2.0 Curated by Stewart Lee, Pontins - Prestatyn Sands Holiday Park, Wales, 17.04.2016
Live at All Tomorrow's Parties 2.0 Curated by Stewart Lee, Pontins - Prestatyn Sands Holiday Park, Wales, 17.04.2016
The Sun Ra Arkestra (led by Marshall Allen) played Cafe Oto last night, as part of a 2-day residency that followed their 5-day residency (extended due to the Icelandic volcanic ashes) in the same East London intimate venue last April.
Out of sheer laziness, I haven't posted the photos I took back then yet. Those include some off-stage portraits of the musicians and I'll make sure to post them in the future. Here is the latest batch of live photos of this amazing and seminal band.