close a sun.black

an essay-game by
nolan oswald dennis (studio)
developed with noa mori
additional coding by galadriel brady
2020

a black sun rises and "one has to be in a perpetual state of change, without holding onto any certainties" [1]. "It may be lonely. Certainly painful. It'll take time. We've got time."[2]

1.Dambudzo Marechera
2.Toni Cade Bambara






Commissioned and produced on behalf of ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), in the context of the project "Are you for real?"

close a sun.black rises from textual fragments sourced from the ambiguous and amorphous archive of >.black..liberation..dreaming.<

we share here a reading list:

> A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
> Abolition Geography and the Problem of Innocence ~ Ruth Wilson Gilmore
> After All ~ Tembeka Mbobo Magadlela
> Awu Sis' Bongi ~ Bongi Mvovo
> Being Black ~ Angel Kyodo Williams
> Black Skins, White Masks ~ Frantz Fanon
> Black Sunlight ~ Dambudzo Marechera
> Black, eleven and sterile ~ Lindiwe Mabuza
> Bronze Lady of Vrededorp ~ Essop Patel
> Dambudzo Marechera: A Source Book on his Life and Work ~ Flora Veit-Wild
> Do what you say ~ Es'kia Mphahlele
> exile blues ~ Baleka Kgositsile
> Familiarity is the Kingdom of the Lost ~ Dugmore Boetie
> For a Black Woman ~ Fatima Dike
> For Each of You ~ Audre Lorde
> Futures of Black Radicalism ~ Gaye Theresa Johnson, Alex Lubin (ed.)
> Head on Fire ~ Lesego Rampolokeng
> I Write What I Like ~ Steve Biko
> In This World, My Sister ~ Nthambeleni Phalandwa
> Malibongwe: Poems from the Struggle ~ Sono Molefe (ed.)
> Manifesto ~ Keorapetse Kgositsile
> No Shelter for Cleaners ~ Miriam Tlali
> Oceanic Feeling and Communist Affect ~ Jackie Wang
> Old Homes ~ David Mphusu
> On the Eve ~ Achmat Dangor
> On the Issues of Roles ~ Toni Cade Bambara
> Painful Good Friday ~ Marumo Molusi
> Parable of the Sower ~ Octavia E. Butler
> Parable of the Talents ~ Octavia E. Butler
> Poets to the People ~ Barryr Feinberg (ed.)
> Possibilities for a Man Hunted by SBs ~ Farouk Asvat
> reconstruction ~ Mothobi Mutloatse (ed.)
> Red Moon ~ Kim Stanley Robinson
> Solomon my brother ~ Lindiwe Mabuza
> Super-women (grown by apartheid) ~ Lindiwe Mabuza
> The Bavino Sermons ~ Lesego Rampolokeng
> The Black Woman: An Anthology ~ Toni Cade Bambara (ed.)
> The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
> The great day (August 9th) ~ Jumaimah Motaung
> The gulp of unity ~ Rebecca Matlou
> The House of Hunger ~ Dambudzo Marechera
> The Rise of the Angry Generation ~ Mazisi Kunene
> The Weapon of Theory ~ Amilcar Cabral
> The Wretched of the Earth ~ Frantz Fanon
> Thought on June 26 ~ Mazisi Kunene
> To Those Who Persuade Us ~ Dennis Brutus
> To Zambia ~ Lindiwe Mabuza
> Umkhonto ~ Baleka Kgositsile
> Vortex ~ Mafika P Mbuli
> Xenogenesis ~ Octavia E. Butler