[Kunst Afrikas] Einladung in das Kolloquium zur Kunst Afrikas | AMARILDO AJASSE: Postmodernism and African Contemporary Arts’ Exposure in International Exhibitions: The Case of La Biennale di Venezia (7.2.2023, 18 Uhr c.t., online via Webex)

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im Rahmen des Online-Kolloquiums zur Kunst Afrikas wird am kommenden Dienstag der Kunsthistoriker Amarildo Ajasse zu Gast sein. Wir laden Sie wieder sehr herzlich zu Vortrag und anschließender Diskussion ein und freuen uns auf Ihre Teilnahme.

Zeit: 18 Uhr c.t. am Dienstag, den 7. Februar
Ort: online via Webex (https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=mbd1e1764a68dc6d8da860228feb5e26f)

AMARILDO AJASSE
Postmodernism and African Contemporary Arts’ Exposure in International Exhibitions: The Case of La Biennale di Venezia

What are the conditions that have determined  the increased presence and exposure of the contemporary African arts within the international large-scale exhibitions?
By having the above question as guide, the present examination will identify the main factors that had influenced those exhibitions to 'open their spaces' to art practices and discourses that had been for long absent from their sites. Specifically the present examination will focus on the Venice Biennale and the presence of African arts on its editions and different types of exhibitions. For sure there are other paradigms that may enable an understanding of the presence of the African contemporary arts within La Biennale, but in the presente examination, the postmodern theory was used as the starting point. The analysis makes visible not only the process by which  the contemporary African arts were incorporated within La Biennale but also illustrates the steps and key actors that had been part of it.
To conclude, considering the fact that the large scale exhibitions, such as the La Biennale, are actually discursive exhibitions, the present examination will also illustrate how and which discourses are articulated by having the contemporary African arts as the vantage point.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Celia Schmidt

Freie Universität Berlin
FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
Kunsthistorisches Institut
Abteilung Kunst Afrikas
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