Nugent Colonial Legacies

Contemporary Lens-Based Art and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-94-6166-427-3
Verlag: Leuven University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

The colonial past in photography and video art of contemporary artists born or based in the Congo

In Colonial Legacies, Gabriella Nugent examines a generation of contemporary artists born or based in the Congo whose lens-based art attends to the afterlives and mutations of Belgian colonialism in postcolonial Congo. Focusing on three artists and one artist collective, Nugent analyses artworks produced by Sammy Baloji, Michèle Magema, Georges Senga and Kongo Astronauts, each of whom offers a different perspective onto this history gleaned from their own experiences. In their photography and video art, these artists rework existent images and redress archival absences, making visible people and events occluded from dominant narratives. Their artworks are shown to offer a re-reading of the colonial and immediate post-independence past, blurring the lines of historical and speculative knowledge, documentary and fiction. Nugent demonstrates how their practices create a new type of visual record for the future, one that attests to the ramifications of colonialism across time.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Nugent, Gabriella

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Spezielle Techniken in der Fotografie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kunstethnologie, Musikethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Afrikanische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Mining Lubumbashi: Sammy Baloji’s Mémoire Chapter 2. The Maintenance of Mobutu’s Zaire: Michèle Magema’s Oyé Oyé Chapter 3. The Image of Lumumba: Georges Senga’s Une vie après la mort Chapter 4. From Kinshasa to the Moon: Kongo Astronauts Coda. Between History and individual histories Notes Bibliography Index Colour Plate Gallery

Über Autor(innen)

Nugent, Gabriella
Gabriella Nugent is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Art History and World Art Studies at the University of East Anglia.