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Surafel W. Abebe, Assistant Professor of Performance Studies and Theory, The Africa Institute has played a key role in co-editing a publication titled “The Imagined New: What Happens When History is a Catastrophe?” In addition to his editorial duties, Professor Abebe has contributed a chapter entitled “Re-excavating the Present: Inserting Embodied Stories in Ethiopia’s Transitional Time-Space.”
This collaborative endeavor, edited by Surafel Wondimu Abebe in conjunction with Anthony Bogues, Leora Farber, and Zamansele Nsele, represents a partnership between the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) at Brown University and the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD) at the University of Johannesburg (UJ).
“The Imagined New | Working through alternative archives is envisioned as a 3-volume, open-access publication in which African and African diasporic art practices are framed as an alternative set of archives, in which intersecting histories, presents and possible futures are (re)conceived, embodied and performed as radical claims to Black life.
Surafel W. Abebe, Assistant Professor of Performance Studies and Theory, The Africa Institute has played a key role in co-editing a publication titled “The Imagined New: What Happens When History is a Catastrophe?” In addition to his editorial duties, Professor Abebe has contributed a chapter entitled “Re-excavating the Present: Inserting Embodied Stories in Ethiopia’s Transitional Time-Space.”
Surafel W. Abebe, Assistant Professor of Performance Studies and Theory, The Africa Institute has played a key role in co-editing a publication titled “The Imagined New: What Happens When History is a Catastrophe?” In addition to his editorial duties, Professor Abebe has contributed a chapter entitled “Re-excavating the Present: Inserting Embodied Stories in Ethiopia’s Transitional Time-Space.”
This collaborative endeavor, edited by Surafel Wondimu Abebe in conjunction with Anthony Bogues, Leora Farber, and Zamansele Nsele, represents a partnership between the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) at Brown University and the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD) at the University of Johannesburg (UJ).
“The Imagined New | Working through alternative archives is envisioned as a 3-volume, open-access publication in which African and African diasporic art practices are framed as an alternative set of archives, in which intersecting histories, presents and possible futures are (re)conceived, embodied and performed as radical claims to Black life.
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