CÉSAR, Filipa (ed.)
The New Alphabet/DNA #20: Looming Creole

Looming Creole is an inhabited set and a score. It brings together various spatialities and languages and a multitude of agencies: contemporary digital imaginaries of neo-liberal multinational extractivism as a terra nullius upgrade at the West African coast, and the long-term practice of encoding matter as a poetics of resistance within colonial extractivism. The volume entangles various source/resource codes, warping horizontal threads of fabulations from left to right and from right to left. This deliberate tangle of storylines creates a visual texture that articulates the subversive potency of rituals of quantum weaving as a counter to the engineering of binary extractive epistemologies. [publishers’ note]

Contributions by Joana Barrios, Wendy Chun, Zé Interpretador, Munhammed Lamin, Olivier Marboeuf, Marinho de Pinha, Nelly Y. Pinkrah …

Published by Spector Books / Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2025
Curatorial Studies / Artists' Writings / Postcolonial Studies