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Contemporary Art: Making African, Black, Afropolitan Worlds

Ferdinand de Jong

Kommentar

This course examines contemporary African art as a vehicle for the expression of Africa's place and predicament in the world. It seeks to establish how contemporary artists of African descent articulate a Black, African, or Diasporic subjectivity. It examines how African, Black and Diasporic subjectivities are articulated in art by analysing the art world through a series of relevant concepts: World-making, empire, liberation movements, Blackness, Pan-Africanism, Negritude, post-Black, Afro-futurism, memory, archive, production, curating, intervention, performance, repair, Biennale, visibility. Situating the production of contemporary African art in a space between the African state and the art worlds of London, Paris, and New York, we examine work by artists like Twins Seven Seven, El Hadj Sy, Tracey Rose, Sokari Douglas Camp, Marlene Dumas, Chris Ofili, El Anatsui, Romuald Hazoumé, Yinka Shonibare, Theo Eshetu, Zanele Muholi, Carrie Mae Weems, Theaster Gates, Simone Leigh, Senam Okudzeto, Kara Walker, and others. Leading questions addressed by this lecture series are: what is contemporary African art? What historical, contemporary, and conceptual issues are addressed by this art? How can we study African contemporary art? What impact does African art make? This course situates contemporary African art in the world, and, as a form of world-making. Schließen

Literaturhinweise

Enwezor, O. and Okeke-Agulu, C., 2009. Contemporary African art since 1980. Bologna: Damiani. Mbembe, A., 2020. Afropolitanism. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 2020(46), pp.56-61. Nelson, S., and H. Copeland (eds). 2023. Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Distributed by Yale University Press. Sharpe, Christina. In the wake: On blackness and being. Duke University Press, 2016. Schließen

14 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Di, 12:00 - 14:00 14 Termine

Di, 15.04.2025 12:00 - 14:00

Dozenten:
Prof. Dr. Ferdinand de Jong