Research Catalog

Title

Arthur Jafa : magnumb / [edited by Lærke Rydal Jørgensen, Mathias Ussing Seeberg & Arthur Jafa].

Author

Jafa, Arthur

Publication

• Humlebæk, Denmark : Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, [2021]
• Denmark : Litho/Print, Narayana Press

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rydal Jørgensen, Lærke
• Ussing Seeberg, Mathias
• Louisiana (Museum : Humlebæk, Denmark), host institution.

Description

211 pages : illustrations (some color); 30 cm

Summary

"Though he has worked in film and music for decades, American video artist Arthur Jafa only garnered acclaim in the art world in 2016 for his video work Love is the Message, the Message is Death. Composed of found images and videos, his oeuvre revolves around Black American culture, the history of slavery, and ongoing structural and physical violence against Black Americans. As Jafa put it in his 2003 text 'My Black Death': 'The central conundrum of black being (the double bind of our ontological existence) lies in the fact that common misery both defines and limits who we are. Such that our efforts to eliminate those forces which constrain also function to dissipate much which gives us our specificity, our uniqueness, our flavor by destroying the binds that define we will cease to be, but this is the good death (boa morte) to be embraced.' This essential overview presents Jafa's best-known works, such as Love is the Message, the Message is Death and its 2018 follow-up piece The White Album, alongside never-before-seen projects and essays by notable scholars"--Publisher's website.

Uniform Title

Arthur Jafa. English

Alternative Title

Arthur Jafa.

Subject

• Jafa, Arthur > Exhibitions
• Jafa, Arthur > Themes, motives > Exhibitions
• Installations (Art) > Exhibitions
• Video art > Exhibitions
• African Americans in art > Exhibitions
• Racism in art > Exhibitions
• African Americans > Violence against > Exhibitions
• Art, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Racism in art
• African Americans > Violence against
• African Americans in art
• Video art

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Danish.

Exhibitions (note)

• Published on the occasion of an exhibition which was to be held at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, December 9, 2020 - May 9, 2021, until the museum closed for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Contents

Foreword / Poul Erik Tøjner and Mathias Ussing Seeberg -- Beauty through horror: an introduction to the work of Arthur Jafa / Mathias Ussing Seeberg -- A message of love / Arthur Jafa and Jacob Holdt in conversation -- Trouble consciousness / Jared Sexton -- We're in the water, you're gonna get wet / Arthur Jafa and Faith Icecold in conversation -- CT X OM = HA / Arthur Jafa -- Cecil Taylor : African Code, Black methodology / J.B. Figi -- Always already, already always / M. NourbeSe Philip -- A few notes toward the time that has not yet arrived: (On the sonicvisual art of Arthur Jafa) / Nahum Dimitri Chandler.

Call Number

Sc+ F 22-256

ISBN

• 9788793659353
• 8793659350

OCLC

1247660399

Author

Jafa, Arthur, artist, editor, interviewee.

Title

Arthur Jafa : magnumb / [edited by Lærke Rydal Jørgensen, Mathias Ussing Seeberg & Arthur Jafa].

Publisher

Humlebæk, Denmark : Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, [2021]

Manufacturer

Denmark : Litho/Print, Narayana Press

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Americans

African Americans

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Biography

Filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa (born 1960) grew up in Mississippi, where his lifelong fascination with found imagery manifested in his childhood hobby of assembling binders of photographs culled from various sources. As a cinematographer and director of photography, Jafa has collaborated with Stanley Kubrick, Solange Knowles and Spike Lee, among many others. His work on Julie Dash's 1991 film Daughters of the Dust won him the Best Cinematography award at Sundance. At the 2019 Venice Biennale, he was awarded the Golden Lion for The White Album. Jafa lives in Los Angeles.

Language

Translated from the Danish.

Exhibitions

Published on the occasion of an exhibition which was to be held at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, December 9, 2020 - May 9, 2021, until the museum closed for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Added Author

Rydal Jørgensen, Lærke, editor.

Ussing Seeberg, Mathias, editor.

Louisiana (Museum : Humlebæk, Denmark), host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc+ F 22-256

JQF 22-1040