![]() It narrates how a young girl is given the name Star, although she doesn’t yet know what the word means. It blends text from an unpublished story Butler wrote as a teenager with an African American folk song and electromagnetic sounds from the Earth’s atmosphere. This drive is embodied poetically in the audio piece “Ring Shout (for Octavia Butler)” by Mendi + Keith Obadike. These are remarkable for the affirmations Butler wrote day after day, reminding herself that she would be successful - famous novelist, a bestseller - and that she had no one to rely upon but herself. ![]() It spans her lifetime, from childhood writings and drawings to rejection letters, photographs, and most strikingly, cards and pages of notes. But the most engaging “work” is a slideshow of selections from Butler’s papers. ![]() Their responses take a variety of forms, including sound and video as well as photography, drawing and installation. The exhibition at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena features works by eight artists who were granted access to Butler’s archives at the Huntington Library in San Marino. She was also African American, and her novels reworked the sci-fi genre with far-reaching insights on race, sex and gender. Butler, who died in 2006, was a bestselling Pasadena novelist and the only science fiction writer to win a MacArthur fellowship. Butler” is the view it provides into Butler’s archive itself. The best part of “Radio Imagination: Artists in the Archive of Octavia E.
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