In and Out of Brussels

O Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Barcelona recebe nos dias 15 e 16 de Fevereiro o seminário African Postcolonial Imaginaries, uma das actividades do projecto In and Out Brussels. 

The seminar African Postcolonial Imaginaries combines a debate on the postcolonial condition and with the presentation of a series of documentaries specially produced for this project. Included in the selection are authors such as Herman Asselberghs, Sven Augustijnen, Renzo Martens and Els Opsomer. Starting with their works and the debates they have prompted, T.J. Demos and Hilde Van Gelder, art historians and authors of a publicationentitled In and Out of Brussels, will conduct an open seminar organised by MACBA. The main theme of the seminar will be the eternal question of how to relate the history of colonialism and, in particular, how can the relationship between Europe and Africa be represented from a contemporary perspective rooted in the conditions of the present and marked by a moment in time when Europe itself is being identified as a crisis zone.

In and Out Brussels é também o nome da edição em livro com cd da pesquisa internacional e interdiciplinar realizada por teóricos, artistas, críticos e curadores, realizada enmtre 2010 e 2012.

Specifically, the project addresses the diverse ways in which these artists have investigated sub-Saharan Africa both as a site of political conflict, poverty, and migration, as well as an imaginary screen for the construction of European identity, humanitarian concern, and political engagement.

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