Chimurenga CHRONIC / COULD BE NO.3 The Corpse Exhibition and Older Graphic Stories
SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA, and held from September 1 to November 20, 2016—is publishing four volumes of the non-periodical publication COULD BE starting in April 2016 and up until the opening of the Biennale. The publications will contain well-timed issues discovered by various contributors with different characteristics and viewpoints standing at the crossroads of the Biennale and multiple contemporary art languages.
This contribution takes the form of a special edition of Chimurenga’s quarterly pan-African gazette, the Chronic, which presents new sci-fi graphic writing from Africa and its diaspora. Chimurenga intended to archive and question the present as well as produce a language through which we can imagine our future. This issue, which is based on the graphic stories of the Africa of the past, attempts to build a new juxtaposition of cartoons and graphic writing.
Table of Contents
THE EMPEROR OF KINSHASA’S STREET COMICS. NANCY ROSE HUNT
Boubacar Boris Diop’s KAVEENA. Catherine Anyango
MARIKANA. Loyiso Mkize
Sarah Rifky’s QALQALAH: THE SUBJECT OF LANGUAGE. THENJIWE NKOSI
Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s DEBT AND STUDY. Francis Burger
Hassan Blassim’s THE CORPSE EXHIBITION. Hussein Nassir Salih
Kojo Laing’s MAJOR GENTL AND THE ACHIMOTA WARS. Nikhil Singh
SALUT GLISSANT. Moses März, Graeme Arendse
T.W.A.D. SQUAD* (*The White Saviours of African Development). Moses März, Mo Hassan
SCREAMING THROUGH THE GALAXY. Jimmy Rage
AVIONS DE NUIT. Phumle April
Brent Hayes Edwards’ AFRO_HORN. Native Maqari
FARA FARA IN KINSHASA. Carsten Höller
HOMEBOY. Michael A. Gonzales, Mac McGill
Amos Tutuola’s THE COMPLETE GENTLEMAN. London Kamwendo
YAKHAL’ INKOMO. Breeze Yoko
