Contemporary Lens-Based Art and the Democratic Republic of Congo
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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.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
IAS
Book Launch: Colonial Legacies - 26 April 2022, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm
“Art
history has been undergoing a process of reckoning, from calls to address the
legacies of slavery and colonialism to concomitant surveys of decolonsiation
published in some of the discipline’s foremost journals.”, Gabriella Nugent
Nugent
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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.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
IAS
Book Launch: Colonial Legacies - 26 April 2022, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm
“Art
history has been undergoing a process of reckoning, from calls to address the
legacies of slavery and colonialism to concomitant surveys of decolonsiation
published in some of the discipline’s foremost journals.”, Gabriella Nugent
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kunstethnologie, Musikethnologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Spezielle Techniken in der Fotografie
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Afrikanische Kunst
Weitere Infos & Material
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
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