From “Africa to America” choreographed by Darlene Blackburn for Festac in 1977, performed by dance students from the University of Calabar, as part of the NASM at Lagos Biennial February 2024.
Lagos Biennial Contributors:
| Haerim Lee | Chicago, IL, USA | Collective Mural; Structure & Anti-Structure, Public Art, Cross-Cultural Exchange |
| Ekalan Hou | New Haven, CT, USA | Digital
Collage; FESTAC & Counter-FESTAC, Black Sociality, Assemblage, Postcolonial Critique |
| Spencer Hutchinson | Chicago, IL, USA | Sound and Performance; Intergenerational Community-Building, Healing, Situational Disruption of the Status quo in Liminal Urban Spaces" |
| Myriam Zarhloul | Paris, France | "INFINITE SHRINE, MY GRATITUDE LIST” Text and Performance; Diaspora, Pan-Africanism, New Mythology, Fela Kuti’s Shrine |
| Karen Francois Predestin | Los Angeles, CA | “The Internationalisation of the Haitian Renaissance” Video and Text; Haitian History, Immigration, Black Internationalism |
| Learenna Reynolds | Chicago, IL, USA | “Taproot” Documentary Film; Audiovisual Assemblage, Diaspora, Kinship, Epigenetics |
| Lloyd Rice Jr | Chicago, Illinois, USA | "Symbol, all that lies beneath." Mixed media on paper; Mask as Symbol, Personal and Collective Histories |
| Douglas Williams | Illinois, USA | Documentary Film Research; Family Archive, Oral Histories, Black Arts Movement |
| Antoinette Myers Perry | Baltimore, MD, USA | "KALAKUTA NIGHTS", “Mother of Nine (forIansã)”, “a reconstruction (re)dux" Painting, Video, Screenplay; Afrofuturism, Remix as Form, Intergenerational Dialogue, Feminist Narrative |
| Emilia Mello | São Paulo, Brazil | "Branqueamento/Generosa" Poetry; Family Archive, Racial Identity, Ancestral Poetics |
| Analise Samantha Delphine Sesay | Kingston, NY, USA | “Have You Seen Delphine?”Collage; Family Archive, Intergenerational Poetics, Cultural Legacy |
| Chris Wray | Midwest, USA | Cultural Dataset; Rhythm, Cultural Legacy, Memory Systems, Custom Software |
| Ryan Tenney | Kansas City, MO, USA | “The Gourd” Collective Installation; Custom Hardware, Afroecology, Food Sovereignty, Cultural Vessels, Data & Memory Preservation, Custom Software, Ancestral Knowledge Transmission |
| Taylor Harriett Payton | Chicago, IL, USA | Historical Reflection; Black Internationalism, Pan-Africanism, Alternative Pedagogies and Histories |
| Petra Matić | Zagreb, Croatia | "Briefly on Africa in Croatia"Historical Research; Cross-Cultural Exchange, Diaspora, Archive |
| Chaski No | Brooklyn, NY, USA | "Enduring Ephemera: FESTAC Documents”Visualization of FESTAC '77 Ephemera; Archive, Collective Memory, Information Systems, Custom Software |
| Dindga McCannon | New York, NY | Artist, Member of "Where We At" Black Women Artists, Inc. collective |
| Darlene Blackburn | Chicago, IL, USA | Dancer, Choreographer, Participant at FESTAC 77 |
| Romi Crawford | Chicago, IL | Founder, Black Arts Movement School Modality and New Art School Modality |
| Fred Moten | New York, NY | Poet, Writer, co-author together with Stefano Harney of The Undercommons: fugitive planning and black study (2013) |
| Stefano Harney | Cologne, Germany | Professor of Transversal Aesthetics at Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln / Academy of Media Arts Cologne |
| Ntone Edjabe | Cape Town, South Africa | Writer and DJ, and the founder and editor of Chimurenga, a pan African publication of arts and politics out of Cape Town. He is Artistic Director of the Pan African Space Station, a roving music and research space, and co-edited three volumes of the African Cities Reader with Edgar Pieterse. |
| Gerald Williams | Chicago, IL | Artist and Educator. Participant at FESTAC '77, Member of AfriCOBRA. |
| Mackda Ghebremariam Tesfau’ | Verona, Italy | Researcher, Scholar, and educator. |
| Haki Madhubuti | Chicago, IL | Poet, Writer. Founder of Third World Press. Participant and organizer for FESTAC '77. |
| Abdul Alkalimat | Urbana, IL | Scholar, Writer. Co-founder of Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC). Participant at FESTAC '77 |
| Roy Lewis | Washington, DC | Photographer, member of OBAC. Participant at FESTAC '77 |
| Andrew Apter | Los Angeles, CA | Scholar, Author ofThe Pan-African Nation Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria |
| K. Kofi Moyo | Savannah, GA | Photographer, Participant at FESTAC '77 |
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