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

Nicola Brandt

Niki Kekos
June 3, 2019

Nicola Brandt is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work explores innovative documentary practices in relationship to the role of memory, narrative, and positionality. Brandt is currently publishing a book ‘Landscapes Between Then and Now: Recent Histories in Southern African Photography, Video and Performance Art’ with Bloomsbury Press. She has presented her work internationally, including at the MAXXI Museum in Rome, Iwalewahaus in Bayreuth, Yale University, and the Würth Museum in Germany.

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