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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 27 October 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

thats what made me think about him again, actually.

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 27 October 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 27 October 2003 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

yes he has.

― gallantseagull, Monday, 27 October 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 27 October 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― Steve Kiviat (Steve K), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 06:00 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

tell him i said hi!

― jed (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

tell him i said hi too!

― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

only because he has a german name!

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

ahahaha!

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

steal it.

― jed (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

the book or Kodwo?

*smuggles surprised author out of gallery under shirt*

― janni (janni), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

both! yes!

― jed (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that his brother who often appears on Newsnight Review?

― David Gunnip (David Gunnip), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

he was on some mariah carey documentary last night too

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

so why doesn't he have a blog eh

― mentalist (mentalist), Thursday, 30 October 2003 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

tell him i said hi! again.

― jed (jed_e_3), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

i wanna know too what else hes doing now.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 14 November 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― sniperdub kru, Sunday, 14 November 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― martin (martin), Sunday, 14 November 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― sniperdub, Sunday, 14 November 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

seven 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 (thirteen years ago)

it's a good 'un

https://vimeo.com/8796242

― ringworm, Monday, 13 August 2012 12:49 (thirteen years ago)

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