Panafrica: Image, Sound, Text
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Pan-Africanism is seen primarily as a political project. But in the many guises it takes, it also engages in cultural and aesthetic innovation. Imagining Panafrica as the promised land implied a utopian endeavor, new forms of representation and new strategies of dissemination. Focusing on iconography, aurality and poetry, this symposium examines how certain artistic and aesthetic practices of the 20th century shaped Pan-African thought.
- Date
- 09:30 — 00:00
- Location
Panafrica: Image, Sound, Text kickstarts a multi-year and multi-sited series of public programs connected to Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, the first exhibition expressly devoted to surveying modern and contemporary cultural activity through a pan-Africanist lens. The exhibition brings together several hundred examples of creative production in architecture, design, film, literature, sound, and visual art, from the 1920s to the present. The exhibition opens at the Art Institute of Chicago in December 2024, and will subsequently travel to venues including to the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Summer 2025) and to KANAL-Centre Pompidou (Fall/Winter 2025/2026).
1 Avenue du port, 1000 Brussels.
In English.
15€ | Standard price
10€ | Student price
Lunch is included in the ticket price.
In collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona.
Programme
Friday 09.06.23
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Kasia Redzisz, KANAL Artistic Director
Sandrine Colard, KANAL Curator-at-large -
This panel considers the making, uses, and distribution of iconic images and visual objects within the history of Pan-Africanism. We will consider what constitutes Pan-African iconography and what remains unavailable for iconographic representation.
Moderator
Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA.
Presentations
Alicia Knock, Curator Contemporary Art and Prospective Department, Centre Pompidou Paris.
Nydia Swaby, Black feminist researcher, writer and curator, London - Amy and me in the Archive: Autoethnography as a Black Feminist Archival Practice.
Hamza Walker, Director LAXART, Los Angeles.
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The panel explores the significant role played by sound and listening, from music to political speech, within the history of Pan-Africanism. We will explore the pathways of circulation and practices of reiteration that enable the resonance of these sonic forms across the Black world.
Moderator
Adom Getachew, Assistant Professor Political Science, Race, Diaspora, & Indigeneity, University of Chicago.
Presentations
Antawan Byrd, Associate Curator Photography and Media, Art Institute of Chicago - Pan-Africanism, Photography, and the Public Square.
Yasmina Reggad, Independent researcher, writer and curator and performance artist, Brussels - Sikia, Tazama [Listen. Look Here].
Satch Hoyt, Multimedia and sound artist, Berlin - Unpacking Sonic Migrations From Slave-Ship to Space-Ship.
- — Short Break
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The panel considers how certain literary genres and forms have proved central to Pan-African discourse. We will examine the aesthetic and rhetorical contours of a Pan-African poetics broadly construed.
Moderator:
Matthew Witkovsky, Vice President for strategic art initiatives and Chair of Department of Photography and Media, Art Institute of Chicago.
Presentations:
Antoine Tshitungu Kongolo, Professor University of Lubumbashi - Po(éthique), politique et actualité du panafricanisme.
Amanda Carneiro, Assistant Curator Mediation and Public Programmes, Museo de Arte de São Paulo - Brazil of Utopian Africa.
Nadia Nurhussein, Professor English and Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore - Marcus Garvey’s Martial Ethiopianism.
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Tsitsi Ella Jaji, Poet and Bacca Foundation Associate Professor, Duke University, Durham.
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Kasia Redzisz, KANAL Artistic Director.
Sandrine Colard, KANAL Curator-at-large.
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