Ahead of her commission as part of ‘anywhere in the universe’, our project looking at the present, past and future of the public library, Onyeka Igwe shares her recommendations for our Room for Reading.
Igwe shares ‘there are more things’ (2022) by Yara Rodrigues Fowler and Sylvia Wynter’s ‘We Must Learn to Sit Together and Talk about a Little Culture: Decolonizing Essays 1967-1984’ (2022), publications that offer insight into the performance work she is currently developing for Glasgow’s libraries, to be presented in Spring 2023.
Yara Rodrigues Fowler, ‘there are more things’.
Igwe says, “Yara Rodrigues Fowler’s ‘there are more things’ is the book I talked about the most and recommended a lot in 2022. This is a book about the radical possibilities of being, thinking and making another world, together. I had to pace myself reading it.”
Listen to Yara Rodrigues Fowler speak about ‘there are more things’ on the London Review Bookshop’s podcast here.
Sylvia Wynter,‘We Must Learn to Sit Together and Talk about a Little Culture: Decolonizing Essays 1967-1984’.
‘We Must Learn to Sit Together and Talk about a Little Culture: Decolonizing Essays 1967-1984’ (2022) by Sylvia Wynter.
“I wanted to know more about Wynter's plays, prose and artistic output and this collection offers another perspective of her thinking that perhaps grounds the theoretical thinking. I read some of these essays and articles together with friends and strangers in an online reading group. Wynter’s essay on the adaption of Federico García Lorca's 'The House of Bernarda Alba' is helping me think about the operation of theatre and performance to help society 'admit what makes it move'.”
Read ‘Rethinking “Aesthetics”: Notes Towards a Deciphering Practice’ by Sylvia Wynter on Monoskop here.
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In conjunction with our projects, exhibitions and events, Room for Reading offers artists we work with an opportunity to contribute to The Common Guild library and share the books and resources that have influenced their artistic practice.
Every artist’s selection is added to The Common Guild’s expansive reference library of artist books, catalogues, and cultural and critical theory.