Library – Notes on Play

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Recording of Artist in Conversation: Shenece Oretha in Conversation with the Curators

Recording of Panel Discussion: Thinking through Play – Lola Olufemi, Zarina Muhammad and Róisín Tapponi

Recording of Talk: Archives as Tools to Build Counter-histories with Cecilia Fajardo-Hill

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Balke, Eva, Play and the Arts: The Importance of the “Unimportant”, Childhood Education, 73:6, 355-360. 1997.
Brathwaite, Edward Kamau. History of the Voice. The Development of Nation Language in Anglophone. Caribbean Poetry. London: New Beacon Books, 1984.
Brooks, Daphne A. Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound. Belknap Press. 2021.
Derrida, Jacques, and Eric Prenowitz. “Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression.” Diacritics 25, no. 2 (1995): 9-63.
Enwezor, Okwui. Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art. New York: the International Center of Photography. 2007.
Hartman, Saidiya. Venus in Two Acts. Small Axe 12.2 (2008): 1-14.
Heta Aali, Anna-Leena Perämäki, Cathleen Sarti (eds.), Memory Boxes: An Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500-2000. transcript Verlag: Bielefeld. 2014.
Huizinga, J. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-element in Culture. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1949.
Kevin Walker and Isabel Fróes, The art of play: Exploring the roles of technology and social play in museums, in Beal, K. Ed, Museums at Play: Games, interaction and Learning. Edinburgh : Museums etc. Print.
Miles, Rachel S., Alana Osbourne, Eleni Tzialli & Esther Captain, editors. Inward Outward, CriticalArchival Engagements with Sounds and Films of Coloniality: A Publication of the 2020 Inward Outward Symposium. Hilversum, Inward Outward, 2020.
Merewether, Charles. The Archive. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2006.
O’Brien, Kerry. “Listening as Activism: the ‘Sonic Meditations’ of Pauline Oliveros.” The New Yorker, December 9, 2016.
On Curating, “Curating Degree Zero Archive: Curatorial Research” Eds. Dorothee Richter and Barnaby Drabble, Issue 26/October 2015.
On Curating, “Decolonial Propositions”, Eds. Nkule Mabaso and Jyoti Mistry, Issue 49/April 2021.
On Curating, “Institution as Medium, Curating as Institutional Critique?” Issue. 08/11.
Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. London: Duke University Press, 2016.
Smith, Gwendolyn “An insider’s view of Play Well”, Wellcome Collection: Stories. Web. 16 Jan 2020.

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