O Quilombismo – Reader (EN)
Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies
Contributions by Lillian Allen, Amanda Carneiro, Jean Casimir, Cosmin Costinaș, Chris Cyrille-Isaac, Paz Guevara, O’Neil Lawrence, Lēnablou, Vladimir Lucien, Berette S Macaulay, José Lingna Nafafé, Abdias Nascimento, Beatriz Nascimento, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Marie Helene Pereira, Quýnh N. Phạm, Carlos Maria Romero aka Atabey, Murah Soares, Juliana M. Streva, and Eric Otieno Sumba
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This reader, published on the occasion of the project O Quilombismo: Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies, brings the themes of the eponymous group exhibition to those interested in wider conceptual explorations around its multifaceted curatorial threads: insurgence, resistance, liberation, spirituality, ecstasy, new cultural forms and aesthetic paradigms, quilombo as queering, and the reimagination of collectivity.
Anchored by newly translated historical texts, poetry, essays, and conversations, the publication engages with the founding figures and initial conceptual articulations of quilombismo in detail, but also explores how it has found resonance in disparate practices globally.
Table of Contents
8
Urgency (Zumbi) [To the Power Z, 1984/85]
Beatriz Nascimento
10
The Promise of Poetry
Lillian Allen
12
O Quilombismo
Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
44
The Concept of Quilombo and Black Cultural Resistance
Beatriz Nascimento
62
ABC of Quilombismo
Abdias Nascimento
70
Transcending Lusotropicalism: From Macamba to Quilombo
José Lingna Nafafé and Juliana M. Streva and in conversation with Cosmin Costinaș and Eric Otieno Sumba
86
MOVE: A Casual Sermon
Vladimir Lucien
92
Totter, but Never Fall!
The Feint of Time, the Wandering of the Body, and the Ambigidité of the Caribbean Being Lēnablou
100
Movements of Justice & Joy: Solidarity Across Difference and Black Revolutionary Organizing as Creative Political Praxis
Berette S Macaulay
112
Savour the Moment (To be read aloud)
Lillian Allen
114
Open Letter to the First World Festival of Negro Arts (FESMAN)
Abdias Nascimento
122
Afro-Atlantic Aesthetics Between Black Power and Quilombismo
Amanda Carneiro and O’Neil Lawrence in conversation with Cosmin Costinaș and Paz Guevara
142
The Man with Something More Than ‘Escape’ in His Face
Vladimir Lucien
146
Untitled [To Walk in Sound]
Lillian Allen
150
Quilombo, Global Peasants, and Worlding Otherwise
Quỳnh N. Phạm
160
The Power and Beauty of the Sovereign People
Jean Casimir
172
Quilombo: On Freedom
Vladimir Lucien
176
Aparelha Luzia as Utopia Realized: Quilombo and Quilombismo in and of the Present Continuous
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
186
Candomblé as a Quilombo
Murah Soares in conversation with Paz Guevara, Marie Helene Pereira, and Carlos Maria Romero aka Atabey
198
Mangrovity: The Politics of the Mangrove and the Kò as Body-Fold
Chris Cyrille-Isaac
206
Urgency II (Quilombo dos Palmares) [1985]
Beatriz Nascimento