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Kambui Olujimi: Zulu Time exhibition catalog

This catalog is from the installation of this exhibition at MMoCA. It includes essays by Sampada Aranke, Leah Kolb, and Gregory Volk.

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Contributors<br />

Sampada Aranke is an Assistant Professor in the History and<br />

Theory of Contemporary Art at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work<br />

has been published in e-flux, Art Journal, Artforum, Equid Novi: African<br />

Journalism Studies, and Trans-Scripts: An Interdisciplinary Online Journal<br />

in the Humanities and Social Sciences at UC Irvine. Sampada and Nikolas<br />

Oscar Sparks (Duke University) have co-edited a special issue of Women<br />

& Performance entitled “Sentiment and Sentience: Black Performance<br />

Since Scenes of Subjection (March 2017). She is currently working on her<br />

book manuscript entitled Death’s Futurity: The Visual Culture of Death in<br />

Black Radical Politics. Aranke received her PhD in Performance Studies<br />

from the University of California, Davis.<br />

Melissa Gorman is a designer living and working in Brooklyn,<br />

NY. She has collaborated on numerous artist books and projects;<br />

including Olafur Eliasson: Your colour memory (Arcadia University Art<br />

Gallery, 2006), Taken With <strong>Time</strong> (The Print Center, 2006), and Sun<br />

Pictures and Other Broken Images, (The Print Center, 2008). Her design<br />

practice encompasses a wide range of projects, including visual identity,<br />

social impact design, and illustration. She received a BA from Bennington<br />

College and a Masters in Design from The School of Visual Arts, NY.<br />

Leah Kolb is Associate Curator at the Madison Museum of Contemporary<br />

Art. Recent curatorial projects include Claire Stigliani: Half-<br />

Sick of Shadows (2016) and Kim Schoen: Have You Never Let Someone Else<br />

Be Strong? (2015). With Dr. Richard Axsom, she worked on the travelling<br />

<strong>exhibition</strong> and <strong>catalog</strong>ue raisonné Frank Stella Prints: A Retrospective<br />

(2016); Axsom and Kolb are currently undertaking a <strong>catalog</strong>ue raisonné<br />

of Terry Winters’ prints and drawings. In partnership with artist Jason S.<br />

Yi, she co-founded Plum Blossom Initiative and its accompanying <strong>exhibition</strong><br />

program, Bridge Work, which aims to platform emerging artists and<br />

forge a more interconnected arts community throughout the Midwest.<br />

Gregory Volk is a New York based art critic and freelance<br />

curator, and associate professor in the School of the Arts at Virginia<br />

Commonwealth University. He writes regularly for Art in America, where<br />

he is a contributing editor, and his writings have appeared in many other<br />

publications, including Parkett and Sculpture. Among his contributions<br />

to <strong>exhibition</strong> <strong>catalog</strong>ues are essays on Bruce Nauman (Milwaukee Art<br />

Museum, 2006), Joan Jonas (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona,<br />

2007), Ayse Erkmen (Turkish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 2011), and<br />

HiIdur Asgeirsdóttir Jónsson (Tang Teaching Museum/Reykjavik Art<br />

Museum, 2014).<br />

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