Kodwo Eshun - whats he up to?

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i miss him! next to nothing in the wire bar the odd short review - no articles anywhere i have been able to track down of late - the book came out about 5 years ago and i can only read it so many times! Bah!

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 27 October 2003 00:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

....anyone? ....anyone? ...anyone?

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:11 (9 years ago) Permalink

I was wondering the exact thing recently. My copy of his book is pretty dogeared. Think he's just avoiding the sophomore curse and putting off writing a new cosmic tome?

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:25 (9 years ago) Permalink

He was on a not v. gd documentary abt 'the Matrix' on C5 last night.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

thats what made me think about him again, actually.

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 27 October 2003 21:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

i met him in venice this summer - he's a lovely, lovely man. i'm sure he's beavering away on something or other.

― stirmonster, Monday, 27 October 2003 22:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

he's been writing for hyperdub.com, right?

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 27 October 2003 22:11 (9 years ago) Permalink

yes he has.

― gallantseagull, Monday, 27 October 2003 22:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

that site is a bugger to navigate - good to know tho, cheers!

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 27 October 2003 23:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

Simon Reynolds periodically mentions him on his blog.I think they correspond.

― Steve Kiviat (Steve K), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 06:00 (9 years ago) Permalink

I have it on good authority that he's currently having a light snack.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 06:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

Kodwo does a LOT of stuff on the academic/gallery circuit so wherever there's a contemporary art space with a music programme he's gonna pop up. He did something for Sonar 2002, for example.

Most likely he will be at the art opening I am attending this evening.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 07:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

tell him i said hi!

― jed (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 11:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

tell him i said hi too!

― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 11:15 (9 years ago) Permalink

he's jizzing himself over a genre developing which takes its basis as an explicit reading of his book.

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 12:32 (9 years ago) Permalink

Spam for Kodwo, soon at a GREAT BIG MASSIVE GALLERY NEAR YOU:

SAMPLE CULTURE NOW
Tate Modern
Saturday 8 November 2003
14.00-18.30
Starr Auditorium
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/sampleculture.htm

Featuring five leading artists and theorists in the field of contemporary sample culture, this symposium will mix talks, discussions and performances to investigate the practice of sampling and its impact on contemporary art and culture. Participants will include sound-artist and cultural collagist VICKI BENNETT (aka People Like Us), German art and music theorist DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN, cultural critic KODWO ESHUN, and acclaimed artists MARK LECKEY and CHRISTIAN MARCLAY.

£10 (£7 concessions)
To book call 020 7887 8888, or visit http://www.tate.org.uk/tickets.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

from that site:

his writings appear frequently in The Wire, The Face, i-D, Spin, Arena and The Guardian.

if only!

― jed (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

diederichsen will be there as well? and marclay? that sounds awesome! i wuv diederichsen

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:32 (9 years ago) Permalink

only because he has a german name!

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:15 (9 years ago) Permalink

i still have to pick up that book. been meaning to for well over a year now, too. one of those things i pick up and drink in as much as i can manage in the bookstore, and then have to put it down because i find i've wandered in without money again. :)

― janni (janni), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:27 (9 years ago) Permalink

ahahaha!

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

steal it.

― jed (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:08 (9 years ago) Permalink

the book or Kodwo?

*smuggles surprised author out of gallery under shirt*

― janni (janni), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:28 (9 years ago) Permalink

both! yes!

― jed (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

he's jizzing himself over a genre developing which takes its basis as an explicit reading of his book

this has got to be the music journo diss of the year, though KE is hardly alone (or exemplary) in his guilt

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

it's not really a diss! it's just always struck me that broken beat is like the "end result" of the basic thesis (if there is such a thing) of more brilliant than the sun. and the last few things i've read from kodwo have all been basically about b.b. or neo-downtempo or what have you.

obv i've got a lot of love for mr. eshun.

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 22:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

hmmm, he just popped up on channel 4 sitting in front of his i-book bitching about mariah carey. he is a man of many brows but definitely funniest when aiming for the low one.

on a related note, anyone know what his brother is up to?

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 00:15 (9 years ago) Permalink

Is that his brother who often appears on Newsnight Review?

― David Gunnip (David Gunnip), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:51 (9 years ago) Permalink

christian marclay is grebt. saw the white cube thingy and his improvising is wonderful.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:55 (9 years ago) Permalink

he was on some mariah carey documentary last night too

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:57 (9 years ago) Permalink

jess, um, yeah - you're sort of right in a very round about way (give or take the perfunctory snarkiness). kodwo's an absolute sweetheart of a guy and i like the fact that he's not scared to enjoy things that are a little bit jazzy (the horror! the shock! writer admits to NOT hating rhodes keyboards!). some people could really learn a thing or two by reading him, getting over their highfalutin selves.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 13:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

so why doesn't he have a blog eh

― mentalist (mentalist), Thursday, 30 October 2003 03:26 (9 years ago) Permalink

He's giving a one-hour lecture next Saturday at the Amsterdam Dance Event, titled New Tendencies in Dance Music: a Short Guide. I'll attend and report back!

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:36 (9 years ago) Permalink

tell him i said hi! again.

― jed (jed_e_3), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

i wanna know too what else hes doing now.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 14 November 2004 15:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/

― sniperdub kru, Sunday, 14 November 2004 15:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

he's been croping up in all sorts of hi-brow publications, perhaps we should organise a night in london so he could come down and speak....

― nick.K (nick.K), Sunday, 14 November 2004 15:57 (8 years ago) Permalink

steve: which of the Eshuns came down to Forward/RinseSessions the other month?

― martin (martin), Sunday, 14 November 2004 20:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

kodwo was at rinsesessions. think it was the one that carnage played at

― sniperdub, Sunday, 14 November 2004 21:09 (8 years ago) Permalink

7 years pass...

Just got Kodwo's(I can be casual and call him that because he's one of my semi-regular customers in the shop I work at) new one on Dan Graham's 'Rock My Religion' out of the library...should probably watch the Graham piece before reading a book on it, right?

― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 13 August 2012 10:47 (9 months ago) Permalink

it's a good 'un

https://vimeo.com/8796242

― ringworm, Monday, 13 August 2012 12:49 (9 months ago) Permalink

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