In song, the ocean is often—usually?—a metaphor. It can represent a bunch of things: distance, eternity, fathomless emotion. But metaphor is also a luxury, one that many people—reduced by circumstance ...
“Love each other, love the music and go for it, whatever your heart desires,” is how Drexciya founder James Stinson signs off on his last ever interview. The now legendary 27-minute long recording, ...
The premise of Ayana V. Jackson’s exhibition at the National Museum of African Art is horrific yet hopeful. Her array of photographs, videos, costumes and installations illustrates a science-fictional ...
Artist Ayana V. Jackson creates an undersea realm honoring those who jumped or were thrown overboard during the trans-Atlantic slave trade “From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya With Ayana V. Jackson ...
Two stories. The first begins aboard a ship loaded with slaves, bound for the New World. The slavers throw a pregnant African woman into the Atlantic. The final moments of her life are full of pain ...
A new graphic novel series will explore the Afrofuturist mythology behind pioneering Detroit electro duo Drexciya. Titled The Book of Drexicya, the series will tell the Drexciyan storyline in its ...
“ARE DREXCIYANS WATER-BREATHING, AQUATICALLY MUTATED DESCENDANTS OF THOSE UNFORTUNATE VICTIMS OF HUMAN GREED? … DID THEY MIGRATE FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO TO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN AND ON TO THE ...
From 1992 until 2002, the mysterious electro outfit Drexciya created not only some of Detroit's most original, enduring electronic music, but one of techno's greatest myth systems. This compilation-- ...
Grava 4, the last album recorded by Gerald Donald and James Stinson as Drexciya, before Stinson’s death, is to be reissued for the first time since its original release in 2002. Grava 4 is set for ...
“From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson” will be on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art starting Saturday, April 29. Known for the deftness with which she ...
Tresor is releasing a graphic novel based on the Afrofuturist works of Drexciya. Put together by Detroit-based visual artist Abdul Qadim Haqq and Japanese screenwriter Dai Sato, with the approval of ...
For her first monographic exhibition, acclaimed photographer Ayana V. Jackson was inspired by the Detroit-based 1990s techno band Drexciya (musicians James Stinson and Gerald Donald) whose albums ...
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