| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-12-22T06:15:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-12-22T06:15:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-01-18 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/54780 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | sv |
| dc.subject | Afropean knowledge | sv |
| dc.subject | afrophobia | sv |
| dc.subject | decolonial aesthetics | sv |
| dc.subject | curatorial | sv |
| dc.subject | marooning | sv |
| dc.subject | racism | sv |
| dc.title | On Afrophobia: Towards Decolonial Curatorial Approaches | sv |
| dc.type.svep | artistic work | |
| dc.contributor.creator | Caminha, Kjell | |
| art.typeOfWork | artistic work | sv |
| art.relation.publishedIn | Glashuset, Akademin Valand. Göteborg (SE) | sv |
| art.description.project | For further understanding of decolonial aesthetics and its methodologies – continuously pursued in my artistic research and practice – I have continued to develop and curate a series of research seminars in from 2015–6. Throughout these forums, different thoughts on decoloniality, hospitality practices, pluriversalism, diversity, migration politics and knowledge are embraced. The main idea is to invite artists, curators and researchers from diverse practices and fields to engage in conversation, promote and foster collaborations for the development of such queries and practices within contemporary art. The series is aimed primarily for Academy Valand students and local art practitioners and students and scholars at the Critical Heritage, Gender, Cultural and Global Studies faculties. The seminars are free and open for a wider public in the city of Gothenburg as well. Is it intended to encourage the formation of south–to–south dialogues that are very marginal in the segregated institution of the University of Gothenburg and the city. ‘On Afrophobia: Towards Decolonial Curatorial Approaches’ was an artist work, an international seminar curated by me that took place on 18 January 2016 (on Martin Luther King day) at Glashuset, Valand Academy, Gothenburg (SE). Through interventions by curators, artists and researchers, the open event pursued the presentation of approaches towards decolonial curatorial practices – seeking to acknowledge and promote Afropean knowledge and visibility, counteracting through art, on the increasing Afrophobia in today’s Europe. The invited speakers were: Nana Adusei-Poku (Research Professor in Visual Culture at Rotterdam University and Guest Lecturer in Media Arts and Master Fine Arts at the University of the Arts, Zuric); Christine Eyene (Guild Research Fellow in Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire, collaborator/curator at UCLan’s Centre for Contemporary Art project ‘Making Histories Visible’, and PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London); Alanna Lockward (independent curator and filmmaker/Art Labour Archives); and artist Christian Nyampeta (PhD candidate at the Visual Cultures Department of Goldsmiths University of London). Nana Adusei-Poku was invited to consider her ideas on post-black art and its decolonial strategies within Black diaspora, expanding on the research and curatorial approach in the exhibition project NO HUMANS INVOLVED by HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN, shown in 2015 at Witte de With Contemporary Art. Christine Eyene was invited to present her curatorial practice with focus on researching the work of South African photographer George Hallett, also reflecting over her important collaboration on ‘Making Histories Visible’, an interdisciplinary visual arts research project based at UCLan’s Centre for Contemporary Art. Alanna Lockward was invited to present her curatorial project BE.BOP Black Europe Body Politics (2012-16) and to reflect on its decolonial oeuvre and future for Afropean narratives in Europe. Christian Nyampeta was invited to present his project ‘How to Live Together’ at Casco and Stroom Den Haag (2013-14), expanding it on ideas on hospitality practices, African philosophy and idiorrhythmy. The seminar marked as a decisive development for my artistic research on decolonial aesthetics at and through the academy. The series will continue and develop into focused but wider assemblies hopefully providing room and thought for collaboration, discussion and research towards decoloniality within contemporary art practices. | sv |
| art.description.summary | ‘On Afrophobia: Towards Decolonial Curatorial Approaches’ was a peer-reviewed artist work – an international seminar curated by Kjell Caminha that took place on 18 January 2016 (on Martin Luther King day). The event pursued to present approaches towards decolonial curatorial practices – seeking to acknowledge and promote Afropean knowledge and visibility, counteracting through art, on the increasing Afrophobia in today’s Europe. | sv |
| art.description.supportedBy | Grant for developing the seminar via Valand Academy’s Research Board. | sv |
| art.relation.uri | https://vimeo.com/153508638 | sv |
| art.relation.uri | https://vimeo.com/154037876 | sv |
| art.relation.uri | http://akademinvaland.gu.se/digitalAssets/1559/1559951_afrophobia_seminar_booklet.pdf | sv |
| art.relation.uri | http://akademinvaland.gu.se/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=586747&languageId=100000&contentId=-1&eventId=3175154751 | sv |
| art.relation.uri | http://www.kjellcaminha.com/afrophobiaseminar | sv |
| art.relation.uri | https://vimeo.com/kjellcaminha | sv |
