e-flux Journal #105

<p>On April 27, 2019, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was the site of a very special convening. It was the brainchild of Simone Leigh, and shared its title with her 2019 exhibition at the museum. Organized by Leigh, Saidiya Hartman, and myself, “The Loophole of Retreat” was an exhilarating, rejuvenating, and inspirational daylong gathering dedicated to the intellectual life of black women that brought together an international constellation of writers, artists, poets, filmmakers, and activists. This special issue of <em>e-flux journal</em> seeks to lift up the extraordinary voices, thoughts, and conversations that emerged at the convening and share them with a wider audience. In doing so, I and my coeditors, Leigh and Hartman, seek to extend the dialogues of the “Loophole” in the hope of including others and inspiring future gatherings which, like the Guggenheim convening, will honor and celebrate the intellectual and creative labor of black women…</p> <p><strong>The Loophole of Retreat—An Invitation</strong><br /> Tina M. Campt</p> <p><strong>Extended Notes on the Riot</strong><br /> Saidiya Hartman</p> <p><strong>Images from “Loophole of Retreat”</strong><br /> Simone Leigh</p> <p><strong>bound together by this matter</strong><br /> Simone White</p> <p><strong>The Music of the Spheres</strong><br /> Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts</p> <p><strong>A Gathering of Aporetic Form</strong><br /> Rizvana Bradley</p> <p><strong>Maps</strong><br /> Dionne Brand</p> <p><strong>Suspended Munition: Mereology, Morphology, and the Mammary Biopolitics of Transmission in Simone Leigh’s Trophallaxis</strong><br /> Zakiyyah Iman Jackson</p> <p><strong>Beauty Is a Method</strong><br /> Christina Sharpe</p> <p><strong>Selvage/Obsidian: A Response<br /> </strong>Vanessa Agard-Jones<strong><br /> </strong></p> <p><strong>Still images from ILLUSIONS Vol. II, OEDIPUS</strong><br /> Grada Kilomba</p> <p><strong>Politics of Marooning and Radical Disobedience</strong><br /> Françoise Vergès</p> <p><strong>How</strong><br /> Denise Ferreira da Silva</p> <p><strong>of wishing and superheroes</strong><br /> Okwui Okpokwasili</p> <p><strong>Interstice</strong><br /> Lorraine O’Grady</p> <p><strong>Reflections on Black Sisterhood and the United Order of Tents<br /> </strong>Annette Lane Harrison Richter<strong><br /> </strong></p> <p><strong> Still images from Spit on the Broom</strong><br /> Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich</p> <p><strong>the order was in the hour of worship</strong><br /> Asiya Wadud</p>