Kodwo Eshun

Kodwo specialises in art and critical theory, referencing post-war liberation movements and contemporary musicality.

Staff details

Kodwo Eshun

Position

Lecturer In Aural And Visual Culture

Department

Visual Cultures

Email

k.eshun (@gold.ac.uk)

Website

http://otolithgroup.org/

Teaching

MRes and PhD in Visual Cultures

Publications and research outputs

Book

Eshun, Kodwo. 2025. More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (2nd edition). London: Verso. ISBN 9781784786724

Eshun, Kodwo. 2023. Plus Brilliant que le soleil: Aventures en fiction sonore. Paris: Philharmonie de Paris Editions. ISBN 9791094642627

Eshun, Kodwo. 2018. Mais brillante que el sol: Incursiones en la Ficción Sónica. Buenos Aires: Caja Negra Editora. ISBN 9789871622634

Edited Book

Eshun, Kodwo; Fuke, Oliver and Nicolas, Helm- Grovas, eds. 2026. Arrows of Desire: Peter Wollen Selected Writings 1963-2002. London: Verso.

Eshun, Kodwo; Fuke, Oliver and Helm-Grovas, Nicolas, eds. 2026. Fire and Ice: Peter Wollen Selected Writings 1960-2004. London: Verso.

Eshun, Kodwo; Fuke, Oliver and Helm- Grovas, Nicolas, eds. 2026. Knight's Moves: Peter Wollen Selected Writings 1966-2003. London: Verso.

Edited Journal

Eshun, Kodwo and Gray, Ros, eds. 2011. The Militant Image: A Ciné-Geography, Third Text, 25(1). 0952-8822

Book Section

Eshun, Kodwo. 2024. 'The Struggle Against This Colonial Barrage': Listening for Black Industrialism in the Theoretical Positions of Black Audio Film Collective circa 1986. In: Marwa Arsanios; Leon Filter and Leire Vergara, eds. A Cut Through The Screen: Struggles Reverberation in Cinema. Berlin: Archive Books and Dutch Art Institute.

Eshun, Kodwo; Goodman, Steve and Pethick, Emily. 2024. To Release the Unnameable. In: Justin Barton; Myra B. Kronic and Steve Goodman, eds. Sonic Faction: Audio Essay as Medium and Method. Falmouth: Urbanomic. ISBN 9781915103123

Eshun, Kodwo. 2024. On the Implications of Black Studies for Counter-Forensics and Counter-Forensics for Black Studies. In: Ricardo Badano; Tomas Percival and Susan Schuppli, eds. Militant Media. Leipzig: Spector Books, pp. 23-38. ISBN 9783959056878

Article

Eshun, Kodwo and Sagar, Anjali. 2014. It may be useful to assume the policeman’s perspective now and then. Black Collectivities NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, ISSN 1075-7163x

Eshun, Kodwo. 2003. Further Considerations on Afrofuturism. CR The New Centennial Review, 3(2), pp. 287-302. ISSN 15396630

Conference or Workshop Item

Eshun, Kodwo; Henderson, Louis and Denise, Lynee. 2024. 'Thinking with Dub Cinema: Echoes of Dissent Vol. 3'. In: Thinking with Dub Cinema: Echoes of Dissent Vol. 3. Courtisane Festival, Ghent, Belgium 27- 30 March 2024.

Eshun, Kodwo and Keating, Marianne. 2024. 'Kodwo Eshun in conversation with Marianne Keating.'. In: Kodwo Eshun in conversation with Marianne Keating. The Showroom, London, United Kingdom 10 January 2024.

Eshun, Kodwo; Sagar, Anjalika and Ferreira da Silva, Denise. 2023. 'The Otolith Group with Denise Ferreira da Silva'. In: The Franklin Humanities Institute Climate Change, Decolonisation and Global Blackness Lab. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, United States 14 September 2023.

Art Object

Eshun, Kodwo. 2024. look upon our land through the speech of stars.

Eshun, Kodwo. 2024. We will alight onto ourselves and return if we should awaken.

Eshun, Kodwo. 2024. We become an ode opening its windows to be recited.

Exhibition Catalogue

Eshun, Kodwo; Sagar, Anjalika and Morley, Megs. 2021. The Otolith Group. Xenogenesis.

Eshun, Kodwo. 2019. The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis Short Guide.

Eshun, Kodwo. 2015. World 3.

Film/Video

Eshun, Kodwo. 2022. What the Owl Knows.

Eshun, Kodwo; Mulvey, Laura and Russell, Wendy. 2020. Peter Wollen - Writing, Politics, Film.

Eshun, Kodwo. 2020. ZONE 2.

Show/Exhibition

Eshun, Kodwo and Sagar, Anjalika. 2024. What the Owl Knows. In: "What the Owl Knows", Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, 19 March - 2 June 2024.

Eshun, Kodwo and Sagar, Anjalika. 2024. We will move to the land of birds as a flock of previous humans. In: "We will move to the land of birds as a flock of previous humans", greengrassi, London, United Kingdom, 20 January - 2 March 2024.

Eshun, Kodwo and Sagar, Anjalika. 2023. ...But There are New Suns. In: "...But There Are New Suns.", Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, United Kingdom, 13 October - 16 December 2023.

Research Interests

Contemporary art and critical theory with particular reference to postwar liberation movements, modern and contemporary musicality, cybernetic theory, the cinematic soundtrack and archaeologies of futurity.