What is called the imagination (from image, magi, magic, magician, etc.) is a practical vector from the soul. It stores all data, and can be called on to solve all our “problems.” The imagination is the projection of ourselves past our sense of ourselves as “things.” Imagination (image) is all possibility, because from the image, the initial circumscribed energy, any use (idea) is possible. And so begins that image’s use in the world. Possibility is what moves us.
—Amiri Baraka, “The Revolutionary Theatre”, Liberator, July 1965
Exhibition – Africans In America
Concurrent to Black Portraiture[s] III is the exhibition Africans in America, conceptualized and curated by artist Hank Willis Thomas and Liza Essers. Africans in America aims to speak to the flows, exchanges and continuities between the continent of Africa and the United States.