Travelogue Series Resource List

Recommended by Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees, Installation Artist
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Curator
and Gideon Crevoshay, Sound Eco-Archaeologist

Readings

Ackerman, Jennifer. The Genius of Birds. New York: Penguin Books, 2016.

Akómoláfé, Báyò, Lois Holzman and Janet Wootten. “A Meandering Search for Method in a Post-Human World.”

Athanasuis Kircher, German Jesuit scholar

The Bijak of Kabir. Translated by Linda Hess and Śukadeva Siṃha, Motilal Banarsidass, 2002.

Brockmann, Rolf and Gerd Hötter. Adunni: A Portrait of Susanne Wenger. Munich: Trickster Verlag, 1994.

Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993.

Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Talents. Seven Stories Press, 1998. 

Dow, Judy. Going Through the Narrows. Potash Hill, 2019.

Dyson, Torkwase. “Black Interiority: Notes on Architecture, Infrastructure, Environmental Justice and Abstract Draw.” Torkwase Dyson: Works from the Hall Collection, The Hall Art Foundation, 2022.

Flewellen, Ayana.

Fu-Kiau, Kimbwandende K.B., African Cosmology of the Bantu-Kongo: Tying the Spiritual Knot, Principles of Life & Living, 2nd Edition. Athelia Henrietta Press, 2001.

Gumbs, Alexis Pauline. Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2020.

Jemisin, N.K. How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? New York: Hachette Book Group, 2018.

Le Guin, Ursula K. She Unnames Them. The New Yorker, 1985.

Lessing, Doris. Canopus in Argos: Archives. Alfred A. Knopf, 1979-1983.

Lyon, William S. and Black Elk, Wallace H. Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota. SanFran, 1991.

Manuel, Zenju Earthlyn. The Way of Tenderness: Awakening through Race, Sexuality, and Gender. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2015.

Miéville, China. Embassytown. Pan Macmillan, 2011.

TwoTrees, Kaylynn Sullivan. “Indigenous Mind,” Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World, Ed. Martin Keogh. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2010.

Schwenger, Peter. Asemic: The Art of Writing. University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

Places

The Museum of Jurassic Technology. Culver City, CA. 

Pedernales Falls State Park. Johnson City, TX.

Music

Sounds of the Travelogue Playlist on Spotify

Abbey Lincoln, “Wholly Earth,” Wholly Earth, Verve Records, 1998.

Abida Parveen, Pakistani singer

Alim Qasimov, Azerbaijani musician

Aretha Franklin, “Spirit in the Dark,” Spirit in the Dark, Atlantic Records, 1970.

Buffy Sainte-Marie. “God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot.” Illuminations, Vanguard Records, 1969. Cecil Taylor, American pianist 

Meredith Monk. “Dolmen Music.” Dolmen Music, ECM, 1981.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani singer

Pauline Oliveros, American composer

Prahlad Tipanya, Indian folk singer

Steve Reich, American composer

The Sun Ra Arkestra, Shadow World, Live in West Berlin, 1983.

Yusef Lateef, American multi-instrumentalist 

Films

The Kabir Project Films by Shabnam Virmani.

Blood Pudding. By Sharon Bridgforth, directed by Laurie Carlos, Frontera at Hyde Park Theatre, Austin, TX 1998. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NZqQ4r0SCA.  

Neptune Frost. Directed by Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams, Kino Lorber, 2021.