OTHER VIEWS: ART HISTORY IN (SOUTH) AFRICA AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH
SAVAH, the South African Visual Arts Historians, in association with the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA), addresses in this colloquium concerns about the unequal distribution of resources around the globe and challenges from postcolonial societies to the older methods and concepts of Western art history. These challenges have relevance in South Africa, Africa and the Global South, which in this context is a cultural construct rather than a geographic term. It refers to communities and artistic production, throughout history and across nations, which, within the dominant narratives of Western art, have been ignored, marginalised, displaced and appropriated. The aim is to shift the centre of discourse and challenge received systems of thought, which are still largely positioned within Western-centred logic. The desired outcome is to complicate the history of art and the relationship between histories in the Global South and the ‘North’ or ‘West’.
The programme includes, among others, the following themes:
How might the history of art in an African context challenge the Western art canon? If so, in what way(s) is art in an African context constituted as both regional and contemporary? What is its relation to global art practice at large?
Reality Exploited: Neo-colonial Problems in Contemporary Art
Who Is Entitled to Tell the Black Artist’s Story?
‘Regardless, the Struggle Continues’: Black Consciousness is a Culture of Resistance
Blackness as a Model: Towards a New Art History
Categories of the ‘Other’
White South African Discourse and the Invention of the Modern African Primitive
Art As an Act of Decolonisation: Perspectives From and On the Global South
‘Art Africanism’, ‘Ethnic Marketing’ and ’Artistic Fakes’ in the Contemporary Arts of Africa and the Diaspora
Africa, Africanness, and Their Representation in the Contemporary Mega Exhibition
Modernist Primitivism and Indigenous Modernisms: Transnational Discourse and Local Art Histories
Memory, Creativity and First Voice: Heritage Domains and Subaltern Discourse
Conflicts in the Making of Global Contemporary Art
Functionality and Social Modernism in the Work of Untrained South African Artists
Modernist Primitivism and Modern Art in Early Post-Independence Senegal
South African Beadwork – Craft, Art, Recycling, Bricolage? Reflections on the Problem of the Conceptual Appropriation of the Art of the Global South
Renegotiating Race and Nationality: Commercial and Press-Photography in Post-Independent Mozambique, 1975-1986
Millennium Base and New Ways of Expressing in the Modern Bantu Art
The Oppression of Blacks in South Africa is to Blame for the Inequalities that Face the Art Discourses Today
Fact and Fantasy – a Life beyond the Fact: Women’s Occupational Dress and the Influence of Identity
International Esteem through Local Significance
A New Generation of Utopia: Young Artists’ Careers in the Context of the Trienal de Luanda
Contesting Imperial Narratives and Display of African Art: A Counter History from Nigeria
The programme includes, among others, the following themes:
How might the history of art in an African context challenge the Western art canon? If so, in what way(s) is art in an African context constituted as both regional and contemporary? What is its relation to global art practice at large?
Reality Exploited: Neo-colonial Problems in Contemporary Art
Who Is Entitled to Tell the Black Artist’s Story?
‘Regardless, the Struggle Continues’: Black Consciousness is a Culture of Resistance
Blackness as a Model: Towards a New Art History
Categories of the ‘Other’
White South African Discourse and the Invention of the Modern African Primitive
Art As an Act of Decolonisation: Perspectives From and On the Global South
‘Art Africanism’, ‘Ethnic Marketing’ and ’Artistic Fakes’ in the Contemporary Arts of Africa and the Diaspora
Africa, Africanness, and Their Representation in the Contemporary Mega Exhibition
Modernist Primitivism and Indigenous Modernisms: Transnational Discourse and Local Art Histories
Memory, Creativity and First Voice: Heritage Domains and Subaltern Discourse
Conflicts in the Making of Global Contemporary Art
Functionality and Social Modernism in the Work of Untrained South African Artists
Modernist Primitivism and Modern Art in Early Post-Independence Senegal
South African Beadwork – Craft, Art, Recycling, Bricolage? Reflections on the Problem of the Conceptual Appropriation of the Art of the Global South
Renegotiating Race and Nationality: Commercial and Press-Photography in Post-Independent Mozambique, 1975-1986
Millennium Base and New Ways of Expressing in the Modern Bantu Art
The Oppression of Blacks in South Africa is to Blame for the Inequalities that Face the Art Discourses Today
Fact and Fantasy – a Life beyond the Fact: Women’s Occupational Dress and the Influence of Identity
International Esteem through Local Significance
A New Generation of Utopia: Young Artists’ Careers in the Context of the Trienal de Luanda
Contesting Imperial Narratives and Display of African Art: A Counter History from Nigeria
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POSTS RELACIONADOS:
Festival Mondial des Arts Negres
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