Imergência _ Encontro de Performance de 5 a 13 Novembro, LISBOA

uma proposta com acções provocadoras, happenings, vídeo-performances e conversas.

Evento a ser realizado em Lisboa, entre os dias 5 e 13 de Novembro de 2011, é marcado por um certo carácter provocador, nesta primeira edição aposta-se na multiplicidade de propostas e na apresentação de artistas portugueses, espanhóis, franceses, angolanos assim como latino-americanos. Espera-se que com acções de natureza efêmera, realizadas em espaços públicos e de cultura com larga história em termos de experimentação em Lisboa, se desvele o risco e o acaso numa intensa semana de experimentações.

O evento aparece como forma de questionamento sobre a urgência deste meio, o performativo enquanto acto singular e de tensão entre diferentes territórios: o artístico e o vivencial, o quotidiano e o provocador, o íntimo e o público, o poético e o ético.

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02.11.2011 | by franciscabagulho | performance

Trash Anthology - Anthology Trash by Yonamine

Eduardo Aquino Eduardo Aquino

Yonamine was born in Luanda in 1975 and lived in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Brazil, UK and Portugal. His spatial installations and video works deal with Angolan history, simultaneously they are also inspired by popular culture and pop-art itself. The archeology of images from the collective archive is challenged by ironical comments concerning the present situation in Africa, playing with icons and heroic figures. Starting point for the installation Anthology Trash – Trash Anthology was the publication archive of the Iwalewa-Haus, whioch is deconstructed and questioning.

Exhibition Time: 27.11.11 to 04.03.12

Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth, Germany

 

 

01.11.2011 | by nadinesiegert | angola, Art, Bayreuth, exhibition, Iwalewa-Haus, trash anthology, yonamine

'Ordinary Rendition' / Peterson Kamwathi

Untitled Study, 2011Untitled Study, 2011

Peterson Kamwathi Waweru, born 1980 in Nairobi, has occupied himself for a long time with symbols and their meaning. In the exhibition he shows current drawings, woodcarving and graffiti, negotiating the historical, social and psychological mechanisms of conditioning and manipulation not only in his own society.

There is also a new publication - a cooperation with the Goethe-Institut and Verlag fuer Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, edited by J. Hossfeld and U. Vierke.

Exhibition from 27.11.11 to 04.03.12

Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth, Germany

 

 

 

01.11.2011 | by nadinesiegert | Africa, Art, Bayreuth, exhibition, Iwalewa-Haus, Kenya, Peterson Kamwathi

'Not in the title' / Sam Hopkins

Not in the title / photocollage 2011Not in the title / photocollage 2011

Sam Hopkins´ installation „Not in the title“ is inspired by Nigerian and Ghanaian horror movies from the collection of the Iwalewa-Haus. A selection of these movies is shown in the original version mixed with manipulated sequences that are integrated digitally. The installation asks about authenticity and searches for the reception of global artworks in a local context.

Sam Hopkins lives in Nairobi (Kenya). His art is concerned with public space and interactivity. Examples are the media collective Slum TV and Urban Mirror Nairobi.

Exhibition from 27-11-11 / 04-03-12

Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth, Germany

 

 

 

01.11.2011 | by nadinesiegert | Africa, Art, exhibition, Kenya, Nigeria, Nollywood, Sam Hopkins

IWALEWA-HAUS Archive Laboratory Utopia

In October 2011 Iwalewa-Haus celebrates its 30th anniversary - a motive to reflect, celebrate, critically discuss, experiment, imagine and visualize under the headlines of archive, laboratory and utopia. Exhibitions, a workshop and program take place in that context to present the past, present and future of Iwalewa-Haus.

The focal point of the archive tells the history of Iwalewa-Haus with the exhibitions ”Spuren - 30 Jahre Iwalewa-Haus’ and ‘Visions d’ailleurs’. In the laboratory we show three projects developed in the context of short time artist residencies by three young artists from Kenya and Angola. Finally utopia considers the future of Iwalewa-Haus. In an international workshop we discuss important topics such as local and international cooperations, museum pedagogics, teaching and research, exhibition and publication practises and the artist in residence program.

 

Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

 

 

01.11.2011 | by nadinesiegert | Africa, Art, exhibition

Journal Afrika Focus - LUSOPHONE AFRICANA - SPECIAL ISSUE‏

The international and peer-reviewed journal Afrika Focus encourages Africanists with all kinds of research interests to submit an article for a special issue dedicated to and entitled ‘Lusophone Africana’.
Although no disciplines are excluded and the focus is only regionally bound, preference will be given to articles highlighting features specific to lusophone-African societies and cultures, ranging from political processes, (diasporic) popular cultures to health systems and natural environments/ecology/indigenous knowledge systems.
Deadline of submission is mid 2012. Any submission date earlier than that is appreciated. Publication of the issue is scheduled for end 2012.  The submissions will be refereed by Afrika Focus and a jointly edited introduction coordinated by prof dr Koen Stroeken (UGent) has been planned.
The submission address is AfrikaFocus@UGent.be

Journal Afrika Focus
Afrika Focus is an interdisciplinary journal dealing with Africa. Afrika Focus is an open access journal which is published biannually and subject to international peer-review.
As of January 2008 Afrika Focus is co-published by the Ghent Africa Platform (GAP) and Afrika Brug, the organisation which has been publishing the journal for twenty years. Afrika Focus was first published in 1985 and replaced the AVRUG-bulletin which in 1978 replaced the Nieuwsbulletin van de Afrika-Vereniging van de Rijksuniversiteit Gent. The latter first appeared in 1972.

01.11.2011 | by joanapires | african cultures, african societies, afrika focus, popular cultures