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Digital Book Launch with Xiaowen Zhu (Artist and Author), Nicky Harman (Translator), Michael Mason (Designer)
Contributor: Yon Natalie Mik (Performance Artist)
Moderated by Inka Gressel
Book presentation and talk by Natalie Bayer and Nuray Demir
The anthology reflects upon museums and exhibitions from the perspective of postcolonial museology and critical migration and regime research. Beyond critical analysis, this collection of texts is about collecting strategies and forms of action that make it possible to think of curating as anti-racist practice.
Using as springboards the intersections between social battlefields and curatorial practices, as well as a focus on agency, this book examines the relationality of struggles for and against representation. Therefore, the focus is on discursive strategies of resistance, contact zones and approaches to re-appropriation. The publication contains contributions from theory, art and activism to new perspectives of the art and culture industry, which refer to transnational approaches, counter narratives and alternative forms of action.
With Zena Edwards, Nadine El-Enany, Vaginal Davis, Dilip Gaonkar, Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn, Dariouche Tehrani, Thomas Seibert, Benedict Seymour, Niloufar Tajeri, Chandraguptha Thenuwara and Ala Younis Co-curated by: Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn and Niloufar Tajeri. Read More
C&’s Center of Unfinished Business presents:
„Dominer l’Anonymat – Taming Anonymity“
Presentation of the Artist’s Book and Talk with Guy Woueté
For Guy Woueté the main motivation to develop the book project “Dominer l’Anonymat – Taming Anonymity” was and still is to reach that dissenting and dreamlike force that keeps humans alive. In his view there is still a lot to be told about what happened in the “Calais Jungle” in October 2016 and now in Libya where black people are being sold as slaves. To Guy a book is a tangible space for a living memory and the possibility politically and provocatively introduce plurality in the way history is written. This artist’s book reveals the complexity of migration and opens doors for other relation between us and the transitionary spaces that we call borders. It is also referring to his personal experience as a migrant, an expatriate.
The unconventional book exchange between documenta 14’s aneducation and C&’s Center of Unfinished Business.
A conversation with Sepake Angiama and Clare Butcher.
This summer, Aperture magazine is presenting its 227th issue titled “Platform Africa”. “Platform Africa” takes an in-depth look at the dynamic spaces that have shaped conversations about photography in Africa for the last twenty-five years—the biennials, experimental art spaces, and educational workshops in which artists and audiences interact with photography. The issue is edited in collaboration with Bisi Silva, founder and artistic director of the Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos, Nigeria; John Fleetwood, former head of Johannesburg’s Market Photo Workshop and current director of Photo, a new African initiative; and Aïcha Diallo, editor of the online magazine Contemporary And (C&). Coinciding with “Platform Africa”, C& and Aperture have produced a collaborative series of online-exclusive features about photography in Africa, published simultaneously by Aperture and C& from May to July 2017. Brendan Wattenberg, managing editor of Aperture magazine, and Aïcha Diallo (C&) will discuss this special edition with artists Akinbode Akinbiyi and Elsa M’bala, reflecting on the diverse conversations about African photography and image-making over the last twenty-five years.
Akinbode Akinbiyi and Elsa M’bala aka AMET in Discussion with Aïcha Diallo (C&) and Brendan Wattenberg (Aperture)
