mounir fatmi, History Is Not Mine, 2013, still from HD Video, Edition of 5. Courtesy the artist and Yvon Lambert, Paris
In collaboration with Jimmy Ogonga (Centre for Contemporary Art of East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya) and hosted by THE NEST, Giving Contours To Shadows presents its second satellite event, and the first of a series of roundtables that form the basis of our theoretical deliberations. On 12th and 13th March 2014 from 16:30 we will gather with leading Kenyan artists and thinkers to discuss in-depth two topics titled:
I. Beyond Amnesia: Alternative Narrations
II. The Written, The Spoken: Legends, Myths, Fictions & Histories
In addition, an intervention will be staged in Nairobi by Brazilian artist Paulo Nazareth.
The roundtables will be broadcast live on 12th and 13 March 2014 from 16:30 (EAT, Nairobi) / 14:30 (DST, Berlin) at the following link:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gcts-roundtables-nairobi
Giving Contours to Shadows is a year-long research and exhibition project by which artists, curators and thinkers relate to their epoch, to times past and to the drawing of prospective trajectories, thus weaving alternatives to established narratives. The aim of the project is not to re-write history, but rather to explore possibilities of pre-writing history, inquiry into the body as site of discourse, delve into the possibilities of sequestrating history, question the concept of a dominant canon, while poetically alluding to the sheer elasticity and fluidity of history.
Taking place in four art institutions in Berlin and with five satellite interventions across the African continent (Marrakech, Nairobi, Lagos, Dakar and Johannesburg), Giving Contours to Shadows aims at creating space for diverse epistemologies, cast light on discourses that transcend the Western perception of history and propose narratives that brave the colonial/post-colonial.
Giving Contours to Shadows is a project by SAVVY Contemporary and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.). Funded by the TURN Fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Supported by Ernst Schering Foundation.
Curator: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Co-curator: Elena Agudio, Roundtable Series Co-curator: Storm Janse van Rensburg, Curatorial Assistant: Maria-Gracia Guimarães, Project Coordinator: Susanne Husse
MORE INFORMATION:
THE NEST: House Number 4, Jabavu Maisonettes, Jabavu Road TEL: +254 (0) 20 263 4428 EMAIL: theteam@becauseartisiife.org
GCTS: Storm Janse van Rensburg: stormjvr@gmail.com
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