I was invited by Walker Art Center to introduce French-Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis’s 2022 film Rewind & Play: “It Is Not Nice.” The following is the talk… Read more “Introduction to Alain Gomis’s film on Thelonius Monk”
Author: Davu Seru
Drums & Percussion
On Meeting Artist Adger Cowans
We celebrate one another as heroes. We collect material effects; gather signatures. Some of us count ourselves as especially fortunate when we move past representations and get-together… Read more “On Meeting Artist Adger Cowans”
I said I was gonna be an artist, and they let me…
It is entirely too easy to slip into the delusion of thinking ourselves individual, separate and qualitatively different. Sometimes we can even be driven to that thinking… Read more “I said I was gonna be an artist, and they let me…”
“Dead King Mother”
Fire in the sky no water in sight– all I want is my man, but he can’t be here passed tonight. On the evening April 4th, 1968,… Read more ““Dead King Mother””
Davu Seru 