Shades of Black

David A. Bailey is a photographer and Senior Curator at Autograph ABP in London. He is coeditor of Veil: Veiling, Representation, and Contemporary Art and Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance.Ian Baucom is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. He is the author of Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity and Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History (forthcoming from Duke University Press).Sonia Boyce is an internationally renowned visual artist. She is Associate Lecturer in Fine Art at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art and Design at the University of the Arts, London. She was a co-director of the African and Asian Visual Artists Archive at the University of East London (1996–2002).

• Shades of Black: Assembling the 1980s / David A. Bailey, Ian Baucom, and Sonia Boyce xiPart One. Texts Assembling the 1980s: The Deluge-and After / Stuart Hall 1The Success and Failure of the Black Arts Movement / Rasheed Araeen 21Wait, Did I Miss Something? Some Personal Musings on the 1980s and Beyond / Keith Piper 35Inside the Invisible: For/Getting Strategy / Lubaina Himid 41Iconography after Identity / Kobena Mercer 49A to Y (Entries for an Inventory of Dented "I"s) / susan pui san lok 59On Becoming at Artist: Algerian, African, Arab, Muslim, French and Black British? A Dialogue of Visibility / Zineb Sedira in collaboration with Jawad Al-Nawab 67CoRespondents / Young Soon Min and Allan deSouza 77Triangular Trades: Late-Twentieth-Century "Black" Art and Transatlantic Cultural Commerce / Judith Wilson 89Collaborative Projects: Toward a More Inclusive Practice / Dawoud Bey 103Why Asia Now? Contemporary Asian Art and the Politics of Multiculturalism / Stan Abe 109Choices for Black Arts in Britain over Thirty Years / Naseem Khan 115A Case of Mistaken Identity / Gilane Tawadros 123Color Plates 133Part Two. The Conference Conference Papers and Speakers 166Dialogues / Jean Fisher 167Part Three. Time Lines Introduction / Adelaide Bannerman 199Time Lines 210Part Four. Recommended Readings Introduction / Leon Wainwright 307Histories and Positions 309Visual Practices 312Exhibitions and Displays 314Institutions, Policies, and Reports 316Contributors 319Acknowledgments 327Index 329

“Shades of Black is a remarkable document of creative thinking and archival importance. The editors have brought to life a decade rich in artistic experimentation and collaboration, which will shape the vision of artists and thinkers across generations and geographies.”-Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature, Harvard University “Shades of Black is an invaluable text for anyone and everyone in diaspora studies, cultural studies, and comparative British and American studies and for historians and critics of visual art. It brings together a wide range of visual art with a superb collection of essays that set the historical and critical context for understanding one of the most vibrant moments in art history.”-Hazel V. Carby, author of Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America “The explosion of creativity and the critical debates on black culture that emerged in Britain in the 1980s transformed reigning assumptions about black art around the world. This collection is an important effort to assess the work of that period and its lasting impact.”-Coco Fusco, interdisciplinary artist and Associate Professor of Visual Arts, Columbia University