{"id":7614,"date":"2018-02-16T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=7614"},"modified":"2025-01-09T11:03:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T17:03:57","slug":"february-22-ephraim-asili-the-diaspora-suite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2018\/02\/16\/february-22-ephraim-asili-the-diaspora-suite\/","title":{"rendered":"February 22 &#8211; Ephraim Asili: The Diaspora Suite"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7583\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7583\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7583 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/01\/02.22_EphraimAsili_ManyThousandsGone_2015_2.-Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-the-VDB-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/01\/02.22_EphraimAsili_ManyThousandsGone_2015_2.-Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-the-VDB-1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/01\/02.22_EphraimAsili_ManyThousandsGone_2015_2.-Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-the-VDB-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/01\/02.22_EphraimAsili_ManyThousandsGone_2015_2.-Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-the-VDB-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/01\/02.22_EphraimAsili_ManyThousandsGone_2015_2.-Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-the-VDB-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/01\/02.22_EphraimAsili_ManyThousandsGone_2015_2.-Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-the-VDB-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ephraim Asili, still from Many Thousands Gone, 2015. Image courtesy of the artist and the Video Data Bank.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2011, New York-based filmmaker, DJ, and traveler Ephraim Asili began an extraordinary series of films on the African diaspora. These films\u2014<em>Forged Ways\u00a0<\/em>(2011),\u00a0<em>American Hunger<\/em>\u00a0(2013),\u00a0<em>Many Thousands Gone<\/em>\u00a0(2015),\u00a0<em>Kindah\u00a0<\/em>(2016), and\u00a0<em>Fluid Frontiers<\/em>\u00a0(2017)\u2014bring together archival research and Asili\u2019s travels through Brazil, Canada, Ethiopia, Ghana, Jamaica, and the United States to chart cultural connections across time and space.\u00a0<em>Fluid Frontiers,<\/em>\u00a0for example, explores ideas of resistance and liberation through Detroit\u2019s Broadside Press, one of the most important presses for Black poetry. Asili asks residents of Detroit and nearby Windsor, Ontario, to read these poems without rehearsal, potently collapsing history, contemporary politics, and art through their magnetic performances. In earlier works like\u00a0<em>American Hunger<\/em>, Asili knits together images from downtown Accra, Ghana\u2019s coastal slave forts, and the Jersey Shore in an effort to understand his own relationship with Western colonialism and US imperialism.<\/p>\n<p><em>Presented in collaboration with SAIC\u2019s Video Data Bank.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2011\u201317, multiple countries, digital file, ca 92 min + discussion<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ephraim Asili in person<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdb.org\/artists\/ephraim-asili\"><strong>Ephraim Asili\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>films have screened in festivals and venues all over the world, including the New York Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival; Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan; San Francisco International Film Festival; Milan Film Festival, Italy; International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands; MoMA PS1, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Whitney Museum, New York. As a DJ, Asili can be heard on his radio program\u00a0<em>In The Cut<\/em>\u00a0on WGXC, or live at his monthly dance party Botanica. Asili currently resides in Hudson, New York, and is an Assistant Professor in the Film and Electronic Arts department at Bard College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, New York-based filmmaker, DJ, and traveler Ephraim Asili began an extraordinary series of films on the African diaspora. 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