Jason Allen-Paisant

Sat in the Chapeltown library’s cafe, eating his lunch. Empty. Except for two women sitting behind him. African accents, ambient, but...

On the photos he’s taken, everything is slippery or slick. The photos have the brightness of rain water, of reflective surfaces. The...

‘At the dawn of individuation a life raft thus appears on the horizon of the ‘oceanic feeling’: the loving father’—Julia Kristeva A path...

5 January 2023 I’m watching men in high viz jackets dismantle the holiday winter wonderland, with all of its lights in the lake and...

My debut prose book is part memoir, part history, part auto-ethnography, and 100% storytelling. It's about my people's relationship to...

I've been honoured to collaborate with curator Nathaniel Stein and photographers David Hartt and John Edmonds on the exhibition 'The...

"Vers un théâtre du corps habité: Actualisation scénique du corps et de la guerre dans Chemin de fer de Julien Mabiala Bissila."Nouvelles...

My latest article, "Unthinking philosphy: Aimé Césaire, poetry, and the politics of Western knowledge", was just published here in...

The interdisciplinary conference ‘Memory & Performance in African-Atlantic Futures’ was held at the University of Leeds from 31 August to...

By Liam Wilby Across the three days of the conference it has seemed to me that there has been a common thread that has run throughout –...

Across the three days of the conference it has seemed to me that there has been a common thread that has run throughout – the necessity...

As a theatre practitioner, I have responded to some of what we have heard about in the past 3 days: · How do we work across...

- Aylwyn Walsh riffing off of Donald Rumsfeld questions that arise on watching Helle Stenum's documentary film We Carry it Through Us:...

Performance Allows thinking through and with the body Brings feeling into the archive Makes as/if Move from potential to represented...

questions that cut across times across and between around and through loss and recuperation Call and...

By Zodwa Nyoni Over land Over property Over bodies Over narratives

By Zodwa Nyoni 1. RECOVERY I am Cut from the root Trying to make sense Recreating myself here Going back to see what is there A...

- Aylwyn Walsh Feeling through tensions light and what is unlit what is remembered but what should not have to be remembered, because it...

Thinking with our presenters about fugitivity, refusal, flight and the limits of representation, I'm reminded of a poem by Fred Moten:...

-by Aylwyn Walsh In Jason Allen-Paisant’s welcoming address he puts forward the provocations that underpin the call for papers: How...

The conference is being documented via live blogging by playwright and poet Zodwa Nyoni and scholar/ theatre practitioner Dr Aylwyn...

The interdisciplinary conference ‘Memory & Performance in African-Atlantic Futures’ brings together artists, curators, academics and...