Reframing encounters between Black and Asian artists
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on July 11, 2023
Byron Kim and Glenn Ligon, Black & White, 1993, oil on wood panels, overall: 43 × 71".
Geometries of Afro Asia: Art Beyond Solidarity, by Joan Kee. University of California, 2023. 320 pages.
ON A 2011 VISIT TO ZAMBRIA, Hillary Clinton warned of a “new colonialism” in the African continent. “We saw that during colonial times, it is easy to come in, take out natural resources, pay off leaders and leave,” she warned.
But who, for Clinton, were these unnamed new colonizers? China: a country that had poured about $10 billion in investments into . . .
