➡ Claire Bishop, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship, published by Verso Books, 2012.
➡ Octavia Butler, Kindred, published by Headline, 2018.
➡ Alfred Gell, Art and Agency, published by Oxford University Press, 1998.
➡ Elizabeth Hamilton, Afrofuturism and the Technologies of Survival, published in African Arts Vol. 50, No. 4, 2017.
➡ N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season, published by Orbit, 2016.
➡ Grant H Kester, Conversation Pieces: Community and Conversation in Modern Art, published by University of California Press, 2004.
➡ Nnedi Okorafor, Lagoon, published by Hodderscape, 2014.
➡ Jacques Rancière, The Emancipated Spectator, published by Verso Books, 2011.
➡ Mark Sealy, Photography: Race, Rights and Representation, published by Lawrence Wishart, 2022.
➡ Robert Farris Thompson, Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy, published by Random House, 1984.
➡ Caroline Tisdall, Joseph Beuys, published by Thames and Hudson, 1979.
➡ Lisa Yaszek,
Afrofuturism, science fiction, and the history of the future, published in Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 20, No.3, 2006.
A playlist compiled by Autograph’s Director, Mark Sealy, to accompany the critically-acclaimed exhibition African Cosmologies: Photography, Time and the Other which featured Wilfred Ukpong's work alongside 29 other artists from across the African continent and its diaspora.
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