Fred Moten Some Prœposicions (On, To, For, Against, Towards, Around, Above, Below, Before, Beyond): the Work of Art 

As part of the Project a Black Planet exhibition, MACBA presents a lecture by Fred Moten on artworks and art institutions in relation to the challenge of blackness in the present day. 

In Fred Moten’s words, his lecture at MACBA will consider “how an ensemble of prœpositional approaches to the (very idea of the) work of art (and the supporting institutions that derive from it and share its metaphysical foundations) might make possible something like a subpositional or postpositional attitude suitable for extending and enriching blackness’ challenge to the emergent occasion, the long now, within which we operate”. 

This lecture is presented within the framework of Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica and School of Common Knowledge programmes. It’s organised in partnership with Sâlmon Festival, where Moten is presenting a two-day seminar leading to his talk at MACBA. 

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Fred Moten

Fred Moten is the author of the essay In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (2003). Together with Stefano Harney, he has written The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (2013), and more recently All Incomplete (2020), both published on Autonomedia / Minor Compositions. His most recent work, in collaboration with bassist and composer Brandon López, is Revision (Tao Records, 2025).

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exhibition

From 6 November 2025 to 6 April 2026

Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica