September 2011
4 posts
Keep moving
For urban residents who believe that their present and futures rest largely in their hands—whose livelihoods have to take place across a broader expanse of space, work sectors, and networks, it is important to keep moving. Go somewhere, even if it means staying in the same place. Everything becomes insufficient—work, residence, connections, resources. It may be enough for now, but...
Angels 2
Sammy Baloji
New jobs for the city. For it is always a question of what and who works. What counts as work. Then Angel, a switcher, tried to cut paths across the territories underneath bridges and flyovers, underneath the surfaces of rapid transmissions and speedy recoveries. To bring hesitation and leakage. Spending hours braiding the the nappy and greying hairs of elderly women moving the...
angels
For centuries, Fulani angels (Ikabwa) have been crossing the world on both volitional and forced journeys. Unless subjected, they neither sow nor reap. Rather, they tend to gatherings of all kinds. In the most obscure or deteriorated situations, where things seems to veer out of control, come apart, they gather up the left-overs, the discordant and discrepant, into bundles that refuse value or...
