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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
Barby Asante
Barby Asante is an artist, writer and PhD researcher at CREAM University of Westminster working in London and Amsterdam. Her work creates situations and spaces for dialogue, collective thinking, ritual and reenactment. Over the last 20 years of artistic action she has created projects that have explored, liveness, performativity and sociability, to think about issues of memory, place, identity and belonging, critically reflecting on race and social justice, through institutional interventions, working with young people and thinking about ways to create/ occupy space. She is interested in breaking down the language of archive, to interrogate dominant narratives but to interrupt, interrogate and explore the effects and possibilities of the unheard and the missing. Recent projects and exhibitions include Intimacy and Distance for the Diaspora Pavilion in Venice (2017), Starless Midnight, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Arts, Gateshead (2017) and collaborative curatorial project with Amal Alhaag, Diasporic Self: Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca at Framer Framed in Amsterdam and 198 Contemporary Art and Learning (2018/19).
CREAM University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom