Aida Amoako
Books
Neither Reality Nor Memory: Aida Amoako On Black Artists’ Use Of Found Materials
With the publication of her new book *As We See It*, about the groundbreaking work of a new wave of Black artists, Aida Amoako takes a close look at three artists taking collage and appropriation in a whole new direction
Books
Neither Reality Nor Memory: Aida Amoako On Black Artists’ Use Of Found Materials
With the publication of her new book *As We See It*, about the groundbreaking work of a new wave of Black artists, Aida Amoako takes a close look at three artists taking collage and appropriation in a whole new direction
Art
Deep Forest: Ackroyd & Harvey On Planting Beuys’ Oaks
Back in 1982, Joseph Beuys proposed a radical plan to plant 7000 oak trees in the German city of Kassel. Nearly forty years later, British artist Ackroyd & Harvey (Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey) talk to Aida Amoako about planting new trees outside the Tate Modern with acorns gathered from Beuys' original project
Art
Deep Forest: Ackroyd & Harvey On Planting Beuys’ Oaks
Back in 1982, Joseph Beuys proposed a radical plan to plant 7000 oak trees in the German city of Kassel. Nearly forty years later, British artist Ackroyd & Harvey (Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey) talk to Aida Amoako about planting new trees outside the Tate Modern with acorns gathered from Beuys' original project
Black Sky Thinking
Imma Be The Upgraded New Negro: The Politics of Black Eyed Peas So-Called Party Bangers
Black Eyed Peas have been praised for a supposed return to their "political roots" away from the "party bangers" of now-ten-year-old The E.N.D. But, argues Aida Amoako, the group have always had a politicised Afrofuturism at the heart of what they do.
Black Sky Thinking
Imma Be The Upgraded New Negro: The Politics of Black Eyed Peas So-Called Party Bangers
Black Eyed Peas have been praised for a supposed return to their "political roots" away from the "party bangers" of now-ten-year-old The E.N.D. But, argues Aida Amoako, the group have always had a politicised Afrofuturism at the heart of what they do.
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Black Sky Thinking
Chilly Gonzales: Why I Regret Giving Birth to the Neoclassical Genre
Twenty years on from the release of his first Solo Piano album, Gonzales writes for tQ on his regret that the music he helped to bring into existence now provides easy fodder for streaming algorithms, and piles of cash for a lazy music business.
Rum Music
Go West! A Rum Music Special From Ireland’s Outer Reaches
This month, Rum Music heads to the West Of Ireland, currently a fertile land for the production of far-out sounds. Stephen Graham profiles three new albums from the Irish underground, and Daniel Harrison reviews a compilation from the Abandon Reason, who hold mysterious events in derelict car parks...
