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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
Raimi Gbadamosi
Professor Raimi Gbadamosi is an artist, writer and curator. He is a member of the Interdisciplinary Research Group ‘Afroeuropeans’, University of Leon, Spain, and the ‘Black Body’ group, Goldsmiths College, London. He is on the Editorial board of Journal of African Studies, Open Arts Journal and SAVVY, and on the boards of Elastic Residence, London and Relational, Bristol. He is currently a Research Associate at the Wits institute for Social and Economic Research. Wits University, Johannesburg. Recent national and international shows and events include: Aardklop, Potchefstroom 2018; Words Festival, NIROX 2017, South Africa; Romulus, Rebus, Priest Gallery, Johannesburg 2017, Cemetery, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa, 2014/2015; Banquet, South Hill Park Bracknell, United Kingdom, 2011; Publication contributions Include: African Futures, Kerber 2016; Representing Enslavement and Abolition on Museums, Routledge 2011; Black British Perspectives, Sable, 2011. Become a citizen at The Republic. http://www.the-republic.net
WiSER, University of the Witswatersrand, Professor