SATURDAY, 1 FEBRUARY
CREATING CULTURAL MOVEMENTS: BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN JAPAN AND AFRICA
This talk will explore the growing relationship between Japan and Africa in contemporary art, focusing on creating meaningful cultural movements. It will highlight space Un’s residency and exchange programs, which foster intricate dialogues between the two regions, and Galerie Atiss Aissa Dione’s contributions to African art. Inspired by past 1-54 discussions, this session will emphasize the necessity of engaging Asian audiences with African contemporary art to cultivate cross-continental artistic and cultural collaboration.
CARAVANE OUADANE, AN EXPERIENCE OF CULTURAL MEDIATION IN THE MAURITANIAN SAHARA
After an international open call, we have received (for the past 4 years) artists, researchers, sociologists, architects, astronomes, choreographers, dancers, musicians, curators, poets, chosen by their interest in the life and history of desert oasis.
NEW RESEARCH ON PHOTOGRAPHY IN AFRICA
Moderated by Othmane El Farsi, the panel will feature Sandrine Colard, who will discuss her exhibition and catalogue Recaptioning Congo: African Stories and Colonial Pictures; Giulia Paoletti will present her book Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal 1840-1960; and Malick Welli will explore the intersection of photography, spirituality, and cultural memory in Senegal, focusing on contemporary identity.
COMMENT LES SAVOIRS ANIMISTES PEUVENT-ILS ENRICHIR LES PRATIQUES ARTISTIQUES CONTEMPORAINES?
En prenant pour thème les « Animismes Universels », In-discipline Togo explore le potentiel esthétique et narratif du Vodun et du Fâ. Religion et géomancie nées dans le Golfe du Bénin il y a des siècles, elles constituent encore aujourd’hui un système social et culturel vivant et dynamique. Comment ces savoirs et ces rites enrichissent-ils à la fois la vision du monde et les créations des artistes ? Que peuvent-ils apporter à l’humanité ? Par-delà leurs spécificités, l’art peut-il permettre de les « universaliser » ?
SUNDAY, 2 FEBRUARY
MOḌA – MOROCCAN FASHION STATEMENTS: BEYOND THE ONE SIDED UNDERSTANDING OF FASHION, ART AND CRAFTS
There’s an undeniable influence of Moroccan diaspora and artists based in Morocco who intersect heritage, design and global cultures in a contemporary way. More and more of these African diasporic stories are being told through art, fashion and culture in museum spaces in Europe.What does this tendency bring and how can it be done well? This talk moves beyond the one-sided understanding of fashion and art. Departing from MOḌA – a large scale exhibition on Moroccan Fashion Statements created and co-curated by Centraal Museum and DAR Cultural Agency.
TEARS OF FOG, A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Tears of Fog is an exhibition project hosted at LE 18 (Marrakech) delving in the memories of water and the evocative and political potentials of fog as a matter and metaphor for imagining alternative worlds and ways of restoring our fractured landscapes. Drawing and expanding on the exhibition, this roundtable discussion brings in conversation the artists, scholars and cultural actors behind this project to expand on their encounter, the resonance between their work and exhibition making as a space to build solidarities, counter narratives and new imaginaries.
ANATOMY OF REVOLUTION
Lara Baladi (Egypt/Lebanon) is an internationally recognized multimedia artist, photographer, archivist and educator. She was an MIT Open Documentary Fellow (2014-2015) and a Lecturer in MIT’s Program in Art, Culture and Technology (2015-2023). In the wake of her solo exhibition E + ducere, To Lead or To Draw Out at Malhoun, she will talk about Anatomy of Revolution, an ABC and Archive of Revolting, a web-based artwork and multimedia installation, which is the culmination project of over a decade of research on the iconography of protest.
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