Spreads from 'Adam Pendleton: Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths, Revisiting the Black Dada Reader,' published by @daba_press & @buchhandlungwaltherfranzkoenig In 2011, Pendleton (born 1984) assembled 'Black Dada Reader,' a compendium of texts, documents and positions that elucidated a practice and ethos of "Black Dada." Resembling a school course reader, the book was a spiral-bound series of photocopies and collages, originally intended only for personal reference, and eventually distributed informally to friends and colleagues. The contents—an unlikely mix of Hugo Ball, W.E.B. Du Bois, Adrian Piper, Gertrude Stein, Sun Ra, Stokely Carmichael, Gilles Deleuze—formed a kind of experimental canon, realized through what Pendleton calls "radical juxtaposition." In 2017, Koenig Books published the 'Reader' in a hardcover edition, with newly commissioned essays and additional writings by the artist. A decade later, Pendleton has composed another reader, building upon the constellation of writers, artists, filmmakers, philosophers and critics that emerged in the first volume. Source texts by Sara Ahmed, Mikhail Bakhtin, Toni Cade Bambara, Amiri Baraka, Augusto de Campos, Hardoldo de Campos, and Décio Pignatari, Angela Davis, Gilles Deleuze, Julius Eastman, Adrienne Edwards, Clarice Lispector, Achille Mbembe, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Charles Mingus, Piet Mondrian, Leslie Scalapino, Leonard Schwartz and Michael Hardt, Juliana Spahr, Cecil Taylor and Malcolm X. We recommend this as supplementary reading for 'Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen,' currently on view @themuseumofmodernart — whose official MoMA Reader releases October 12. Read more via linkinbio. #adampendleton @pendleton.adam #pastsfuturesandaftermaths #blackdada #blackdadareader https://www.instagram.com/p/CULeUDyJB_S/?utm_medium=tumblr
