denenge

MEDIA

PUBLICATIONS + PANELS

• Contributor, Fleeting Monuments for the Black Arts Movement, ed. Romi Crawford – University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Print. Mnemonic Studies: Spaceship, Mnemonic Studies: Yam Mounds
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• [De]Mapping the future – Listening to the historic origin body –  Wellesley College – Presenting on the work of Nyugen E. Smith, “Visible/Invisible” and “Consecrating the Cosmos” -with Magdalena Moskalewicz, PhD, Valeria Ibraevaand moderator and host Zsuzsanna
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• Wellesley College – Class Lecture – “Visible/Invisible – Camo Coat Collection.” April 22, 2021. 
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• Goethe Institut – Presentation for Panel – “Afro-Futurist Ecologies + Visible/Invisible – Camo Coat Collection.” April 19, 2021.
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• KyCAD Spring 2021 New Studio Course “Constructing Future Forms: Healing and Protection in Fashion and Design.” April 12-29, 2021
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• Botanical Speculations series featured speaker of the month on “In the Luscious Garden + Visible/Invisible – Camo Coat Collection.” April 6, 2021.
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• MIAD First Year Program Talk – “Visible/Invisible: Healing and Protection in the Urban Landscape”
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• KyCAD Spring 2021 Associate Professor, Visiting Artist Talk on “Visible/Invisible: Healing and Protection in the Urban Landscape.” March 29, 2021.
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• “Experimental 3D: Next Nature” with Marlena Novak – Class Lecture on “Building Afro-Futurist Narratives.” March 6, 2021.
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• Feb 22-March 30: KyCAD Spring 2021 New Art History Course “Visible/Invisible: Design, Architecture and Fashion in Africa and the Diaspora”
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• Afrofuturity Class Session SAIC Spring 2021 on “Afro-Futurist Ecologies” feat. Camo Coat Collection + AFRIFUTURI 02022020 Monograph
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• Do312 Campaign for Winter 2021 Camo Coat Mask Collection
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• Winter 2021 Camo Coat Mask Collection Launch
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• Red Bull Arts Feature in Newcity magazine, Holographic High Priestess full-page image. Print and web.
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• V&A Exhibition Workshop Presentation on the Camo Coat Collection with curators for the upcoming African Fashion exhibition
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• Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, magazine spread of the Camo Coat Collection and written text from AFRIFUTURI 02022020 feat. “Visible/Invisible: Healing and Protection in the Urban Landscape”
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• Costume Colloquium VII: Fashion and Costume in Time and Space Conference – Florence, Italy – Panel feat. “Visible/Invisible: Healing and Protection in the Urban Landscape”
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• Center for Afrofuturist Studies / P.S. One Exhibition Benefit, Iowa City, IA, feat. Holographic High Priestess
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• Camo Coat Collection + AFRIFUTURI 02022020 Runway + Book Launch – Official Full-length Video Release
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• ART@COVID.EDU: Studio Art MFAs and the Cost of Remote Learning with Dana DeGiulio for CUE Foundation on Art, Career, post-MFA life
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• Brave New Mesh Exhibition, Veracruz, Mexico feat. Holographic High Priestess
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• Virtual Burning Man Exhibition, AfroFutures Shrine (incl. Angel Bat Dawid and others) feat. Holographic High Priestess
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• Take Root Among the Stars: Octavia Butler Parable of the Sower Exhibition – Fall 2018 – Presentation from Opening Night at Neiman Center and Flaxman Library Exhibition
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• “What Does the Afrofuture Say?” Interview with Ingrid LaFleur’s New Center: The Afrofuturist Strategies Institute
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• Purchase of AFRIFUTURI 02022020 by Joan M. Flasch Artist’s Book Collection and SAIC Flaxman Library, hologram-enhanced hardcover, softcover and limited edition velvet box set
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• Michigan Avenue Fashion Windows Exhibition of Osanyin Portraits + Camo Coat Collection -Columbia College Chicago – February 11 – March 2, 2020
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• American Everyday Conference, hosted by Columbia College Chicago and Parsons Department of Fashion – Lecture for Panel – “Visible/Invisible: Healing and Protection in the Urban Landscape”
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• College Art Association (CAA) – Lecture for Panel – “Visible/Invisible: Healing and Protection in the Urban Landscape”
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• Camo Coat Collection Runway + AFRIFUTURI 02022020 Book Launch – Hosted at Blanc Gallery, Bronzeville, Chicago – February 2, 2020 at 2:20 p.m. CST 
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• “AFRIFUTURI 02022020 hologram-enhanced monograph, published and launched February 2, 2020”
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• “Constructing Future Forms: Body, Garment, and Adornment in Afro-Futurism.” Essay for magalog. Connecting Afro Futures. Fashion x Hair x Design exhibition, co-curated by Cornelia Lund. Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin. 2019. [Essay .pdf coming soon]
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• “N’Vest-ing in the People: The Art of Jae Jarrell.” Essay for catalogue via Kavi Gupta Gallery for AFRICOBRA: Nation Time. 58th Venice Biennale. Venice, Italy. May 11-November 24, 2019.
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• “Sister Moon: A Lunar Poetic in X Stanzas.” Essay for Fly Me to the Moon exhibition catalogue. 50^th anniversary of moon landing. Curated by Cathérine Hug. Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland. 2019.
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• Riding Interstellar Waves: A Performance Essay on Afro-Futurism and Time Travel.” Essay for Sixty Inches From Center. October 25, 2018. Web.
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• Cooper Cafritz, Peggy. Fired Up! Ready to Go!: Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity: An African American Life in Art. The Collections of Peggy Cooper Cafritz. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2018. Full color. Print. Voted #1 by Culture Type of 18 Best Black Art Books of 2018.
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• Theaster Gates: How to Build a House Museum. Exhibition publication. Art Gallery of Ontario, 2018. Work featured: invitational writing and work on paper from 2017 exhibition. Full color. Print. Voted #2 by Culture Type of 18 Best Black Art Books of 2018.
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• “Pedagogy. Place. Liberation.” Place Lab Salon Sessions. Essay on Ethical Redevelopment Principle #3: Pedagogical Moments. January 26, 2017. Web. Rebuild Foundation and Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. June 22, 2017. Print.
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• “Constructing Future Forms: Afro-Futurism and Fashion, Park Two.” Feature article. Chicago Art Magazine, February 8, 2012.
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• “Constructing Future Forms: Afro-Futurism and Fashion, Part One.” Feature article. Chicago Art Magazine, February 1, 2012
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• Tate, Greg, and LaTasha Diggs, eds. COO(n+) BIDNESS/SO4, Image of Super Space Riff. Premier issue. 2011. Print.
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• “Are You Ready to Alter Your Destiny? Chicago and Afro-Futurism, Part Two.” Chicago Art Magazine. July 8, 2011. Web.
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• “Are You Ready to Alter Your Destiny? Chicago and Afro-Futurism, Part One.” Chicago Art Magazine. July 2, 2011. Web.
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• “Burning Bridges and Dream States.” Studio Chicago Blog. 2011.

 

SELECTED PRESS

• Ali, Hiba. “New Age, New Age: Strategies of Survival.” Review with image. The Seen. August 1, 2019. Web. Print.
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• “Everyday Genius”, highlighted by Patrice Perkins, Esq. of Creative Genius Law, @creativegeniuslaw, January 28, 2019. Web.
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• Shawaf, Noor. “Locating Your Practice in ‘African American Designers in Chicago: Art, Commerce and the Politics of Race,’ with D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem.” Sixty. January 3, 2019. Web.
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• Rockett, Darcel. “Octavia Butler exhibit pushes students to showcase their visionary muscles.” Chicago Tribune. December 12, 2018. Web. Print.
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• Ridell, Sam. Featured interviewee for Afro-Futurism video series. Inverse NY. March 2018. Web.
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• Greig, Sabrina. “Chicago Artists+Archives Project: An Interview with D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem.” Sixty. February 2018. Web.
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• “The Daily Fool: Q&A with Auction Artist D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem” feature interview for annual benefit gala and exhibition, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC. March 18, 2017. Web.
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• “Sculpting Space as Methodology of Liberation: An Interview with D. Denenge Akpem.” Florence Okoye of Afrofutures UK, Afrofuturism series for How We Get To Next. January 30, 2016. Web.
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• Nwangwa, Shirley. “‘One State to Another’: Performance in Harlem Delves into Masquerade Tradition at Carnival.” Review of Schomburg performance and conversation with Nyugen Smith. ARTNews. June 28, 2018. Web.
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• Anderson, Reynaldo. Listed in “Afrofuturism 2.0 and the Black Speculative Art Movement: Notes on a Manifesto.” Florence Okoye of Afrofutures UK, Afrofuturism series for How We Get To Next. January 2016. Web.
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• “Space is the Place: A Crash Course in the Sounds of Afro-Futurism.” Florence Okoye of Afrofutures UK, Afrofuturism series for How We Get To Next. January 2016. Web. 
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• “Black to the Future Series.” Interview with Tempestt Hazel. Sixty. 2012
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• “Womack, Ytasha. “What is Afro-Futurism?: An Interview with Artist/Educator D. Denenge Akpem.” Post Black: The Blog. 2010. Web.
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• Judson, Ben. “Self-Revolution.” Exhibition review of Weight of Words. Glasstire.com. October 2009. Web.
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• Chavis, Blair. “Feminist Art Examines Men.” Interview for Vaquera Serenade: Rise of La Cueruda Negra, part of Girl on Guy: The Object of My Desire, Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ, Fall 2007. Radio. Web.
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