[Kunst Afrikas] FACE-TO-FACE - Research Colloquium for the Arts of Africa | ISAIAH LOPAZ ‘Artist Talk’ (9.5.2023, 18:15-19:45, A 320)

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Dear students, colleagues and friends of the Colloquium for the Arts of Africa



The next session will take place IN PRESENCE on Tuesday, May 9, 2023 from 18:15-19:45 at the Institute of Art History at Freie Universität Berlin. We look forward to welcome there Isaiah Lopaz.

Isaiah Lopaz is a transdisciplinary artist and writer working ritually with collage, performance, text based works, and curated conversations. Born on occupied Tongva land and raised in a working class African American home, Lopaz is a queer multilocal migrant of Geechee, Anishinaabe, and Muskogee heritage, based in Berlin, Bruxelles, and Rotterdam.

We cordially invite you and interested guests to the lecture. Everybody is welcome!



ISAIAH LOPAZ ‘Artist Talk’



May 9, 2023 at 18.15

FACE-TO-FACE, room A 320, Koserstr. 20 in 14195 Berlin



Blackcraft

Cutouts, homages to ancestors, printed matter, scent, and music essential to artist Isaiah Lopaz’ practice are harvested as seeds for an inverted artist talk which begins with a Q & A, commencing with a collective “statement”, illustrated and drafted by those in attendance. Blackcraft is a response to internal questions orbiting around Black time traveling abilities (imposed or otherwise), the co-creation and mutation of Black technologies, and the various abilities that Black people have developed to oscillate between the unreal and the surreal. Prompts for this engagement include but are not limited to: Collaging text, sound, images, methodologies, and practices as a way of world building Black autobiographies and genealogies as framing devices to map overlapping histories often described as disparate and distinct African jujuisms, Indigenous futurisms, Afrosurrealisms, and Black zeitgeists. In this circle taking place at Freie Universität what we know, what we experience, what we question, and what we bear witness to will be useful (Thinking of Toni Morrison).



About the Colloquium for the Arts of Africa:

The colloquium invites researchers, artists, curators, and activists to present different critical approaches to cross-cultural knowledge transfer in the arts at this very moment in history to our student body and teaching staff. The colloquium is an (online) forum to debate current research and work in progress that is sensitive to hegemony and power relations in artistic and academic networks. https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/khi/schwerpunkte/abteilung_afrika/Kolloquium/index.html



With kind regards,
Celia Schmidt
In the name of the Department for the Arts of Africa

Freie Universität Berlin
FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
Kunsthistorisches Institut
Abteilung Kunst Afrikas
Sekretariat: Celia Schmidt, M.A.
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