Traces of Ecstasy | ICA at VCU | Reading Room Bibliography
Reading Room Bibliography | Traces of Ecstasy | Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University
Visitors to the ICA were welcomed to spend as much time as desired in this temporary reading room. Presented here was a selection of books and essays that inform the theoretical thrust of Traces of Ecstasy as well as the layered histories it attempts to work through. These resources range from sociological and political-economic texts on the intersections of colonialism and gender and sexuality to historical and philosophical meditations on the condition of the African postcolony and the Black world. Other texts offer rigorous studies of African indigenous thought systems, exploring their convergences with digital computing, queer embodiment, and decolonial aesthetics.
Bibliography
Aaliyah I. Abdur-Rahman. “The Black Ecstatic” in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Volume 24, Numbers 2-3, June 2018, 343-365.
Rowland A. Abiodun, “We Greet Aṣọ before We Greet Its Wearer” in Yoruba Art and Language: Seeking the African in African Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, 142-177.
African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence. Ghana, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia. ed. Manuel Herz with Ingrid Schröder, Hans Focketyn, and Julia Jamrozik. Zurich: Park Books, 2022.
F.O. Alamu, H.O. Aworinde, and W.I. Isharufe. “Comparative Study Of Ifa Divination And Computer Science.” International Journal Of Innovative Technology And Research, Volume No. 1, Issue No. 6, October - November 2013, 524 - 528.
M. Jacqui Alexander. Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006.
J. Kameron Carter. The Anarchy of Black Religion: A Mystic Song. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023.
Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. ed. KJ Abudu, Zachary Feldman, Emily Small and Johanna Thorell with Joshua Lubin-Levy. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2023.
Margaret Thompson Drewal. “Gender Play” in Yoruba Ritual: Performers, Play, Agency. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992, 172-196.
Ron Eglash. African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design. London and New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 1999.
Remi Fani-Kayode, Blackism, 1965.
Rotimi Fani-Kayode & Alex Hirst: Photographs. London: Autograph; Paris: Revue Noir, 1996.
Frantz Fanon. The Wretched of the Earth. trans. Richard Philcox. New York: Grove Press, 1963.
Sabelo Ndlovu. Gatsheni. Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Depronvicialization and Decolonization. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2022.
Emmanuel Iduma. I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2023.
Evan Ifekoya: Resonant Frequencies. Zurich: Migros Museum, 2022.
Tiffany Lethabo King. The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019.
Living with Ghosts: A Reader. ed. KJ Abudu. London and New York: Pace Publishing, 2022.
Keguro Macharia. Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora. New York: NYU Press, 2019.
Achille Mbembe. On the Postcolony. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2001.
Patricia McFadden. “Resisting the Neo-colonial/Neo-liberal Collusion: Reclaiming our lives, our futures,” Presented at AGI, October 2011.
Sam Mbah and I.E. Igariwey. African Anarchism: The History of a Movement. Tuscon, Arizona: Sharp Press, 1997.
Nkiru Nzegwu. Family Matters: Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006.
Oludamini Ogunnaike. Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020.
Kevin Ochieng Okoth, Red Africa: Reclaiming Black Revolutionary Politics, London: Verso Books, 2023.
Kwame Edwin Otu. Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022
Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí. The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Rahul Rao. Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Return to the Source: Selected Texts by Amilcar Cabral. ed. Tsenay Serequeberhan. London and New York: Monthly Review Press, 2023.
Roberto Strongman. Queering Black Atlantic Religions, Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019.
Olúfémi Táíwò. “Kín N’Ifá Wí? Philosophical Issues in Ifá Divination” in Ifa Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance. ed. Rowland A. Abiodun and Jacob K. Olupona. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016, 100-116.
Vernacular Architecture of West Africa: A World in Dwelling. ed. Jean-Paul Broudier and Trinh T. Minh-ha. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2011.
Sylvia Wynter, On Being Human as Praxis. ed. Katherine McKittrick. London and Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
