Congratulations to The Otolith Group for being awarded the 2024 Lewis Baltz Research Fund!
The Otolith Group, formed by British artists, curators and theorists Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar, will use the 2024 Lewis Baltz Research Fund to finance the duo’s book project combining images and texts, entitled MASCON. The idea of ‘mascon’, a contraction of ‘massive concentration of Black experiential energy’, was theorized by American researcher Stephen Henderson in 1973. The Otolith Group has reactivated and renewed it, with the aim of “exploring the gestures, geometries and grammars that make up the forms, forces and fictions” of films by Senegalese directors Ousmane Sembène and Djibril Diop Mambéty.
The Lewis Baltz Research Fund was established in 2015 to honor the vision and memory of the American artist Lewis Baltz. The LBRF involves the annual grant of a substantial fund to support the creation, completion and dissemination of a project in any artistic medium, encompassing, but not limited to, anything from academic research to book publication, performance or installation art, video or film production to experimental digital work.
Image: The Otolith Group, MASCON – A Massive Concentration of Black Interscalar Energy, 2024.
© The Otolith Group 2024