Shared History / Decolonising The Image
How is decolonisation represented through images, in popular culture, film, photography and art? Where are the images of decolonisation? What is the legacy of those images in our culture? What does it mean to ‘decolonise’an image?
Exposition
du 07 Mai au 04 Juin 2006
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Amsterdam – Pays-Bas
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These are some of the questions this project in four parts seeks to raise and put forward for discussion. International and interdisciplinary in its scope, Shared History/Decolonising the Image combines an art exhibition with a video lounge, an academic (or international) conference with a film programme, presented in four different venues throughout Amsterdam from 6 May to 4 June 2006.
Exhibition The exhibition ‘Shared History/Decolonising the Image’seeks to address a major issue of contemporary culture, namely the heritage of decolonisation through its images. What is an image of decolonisation? What does it mean to ‘decolonise’an image? How do images exist, travel, show different realities or make appear a history that is shared beyond national differences?
The artists included in the exhibition come from various countries and backgrounds and work with different media. Their photographs, films, video installations and sculptures refer to decolonisation in multiple ways, using the term as an operational concept, a historical reality and a contemporary situation inherited from the past. Particular themes and subject-matters recur from one work to the other. Historical, political and anthropological discourse is associated with practices of daily life. Several artists, in works that range from the humorous to the violent, reflect upon social activities such as sport, dancing and eating and show how these can be read as signifiers of decolonisation.
The body and language also often appear as vectors or metaphors of colonial practices, and performance may be a manner of showing how the body can be ‘decolonised’. The different perspectives proposed in the works presented in the show contribute to reconstruct, in its historical, geographic and conceptual multiplicity, a shared history of decolonisation.
Exhibition curated by Delphine Bedel and Sophie Berrebi. With Tiong Ang, Dineo Bopape, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Cláudia Cristóvão, Fendry Ekel, Mounir Fatmi, Johan Grimonprez, Sigalit Landau, Otobong Nkanga, Kwan-Ju Son, Jean Rouch, …
Arti & Amicitiae Opening of the exhibition: Saturday 6 May 18.00 – 20.00 Performance by Otobong Nkanga: Friday 2 June 20.30 Arti & Amicitiae: Rokin 112, 1012 LB Amsterdam T +31(0)20 623 35 08 / www.arti.nl / Free admission Open: 7 May – 4 June, Tue – Sun 13.00 – 18.00
W139 Opening of the exhibition: 12 May 21.00 W139: Oosterdokskade 5, 1011 AD Amsterdam T +31(0)20 6229434 / www.w139.nl / Free admission Open: 13 May – 4 June, Tue – Sun 13.00 – 18.00
Exhibition The exhibition ‘Shared History/Decolonising the Image’seeks to address a major issue of contemporary culture, namely the heritage of decolonisation through its images. What is an image of decolonisation? What does it mean to ‘decolonise’an image? How do images exist, travel, show different realities or make appear a history that is shared beyond national differences?
The artists included in the exhibition come from various countries and backgrounds and work with different media. Their photographs, films, video installations and sculptures refer to decolonisation in multiple ways, using the term as an operational concept, a historical reality and a contemporary situation inherited from the past. Particular themes and subject-matters recur from one work to the other. Historical, political and anthropological discourse is associated with practices of daily life. Several artists, in works that range from the humorous to the violent, reflect upon social activities such as sport, dancing and eating and show how these can be read as signifiers of decolonisation.
The body and language also often appear as vectors or metaphors of colonial practices, and performance may be a manner of showing how the body can be ‘decolonised’. The different perspectives proposed in the works presented in the show contribute to reconstruct, in its historical, geographic and conceptual multiplicity, a shared history of decolonisation.
Exhibition curated by Delphine Bedel and Sophie Berrebi. With Tiong Ang, Dineo Bopape, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Cláudia Cristóvão, Fendry Ekel, Mounir Fatmi, Johan Grimonprez, Sigalit Landau, Otobong Nkanga, Kwan-Ju Son, Jean Rouch, …
Arti & Amicitiae Opening of the exhibition: Saturday 6 May 18.00 – 20.00 Performance by Otobong Nkanga: Friday 2 June 20.30 Arti & Amicitiae: Rokin 112, 1012 LB Amsterdam T +31(0)20 623 35 08 / www.arti.nl / Free admission Open: 7 May – 4 June, Tue – Sun 13.00 – 18.00
W139 Opening of the exhibition: 12 May 21.00 W139: Oosterdokskade 5, 1011 AD Amsterdam T +31(0)20 6229434 / www.w139.nl / Free admission Open: 13 May – 4 June, Tue – Sun 13.00 – 18.00
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