IKT Lab: African Art, what for?
Published6 Dec 2013
Foto: Centre Calouste Gulbenkian
A exposição "Present Tense", no Centre Calouste Gulbenkian em Paris, encerra no próximo dia 14 de Dezembro. Antes disso, no dia 10, a International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT) organiza um encontro para reflectir sobre a arte africana. Aliás... poderíamos falar só de arte? António Pinto Ribeiro participa neste encontro.
“African Art, What For?” Is this question still valid today? Can’t we just talk about art?
This IKT LAB takes place during the exhibition “Present Tense: Photographs from Southern Africa” (18 September-14 December 2013) curated by António Pinto Ribeiro. An IKT LAB is a group encounter focused on a question of particular interest for the curatorial practice today and is organised by local members of the IKT association.
QUESTIONS
Is the label of African art useful or detrimental?
Who are the cultural players in Africa?
How is art criticism playing a role in defining and refining the pluralities of art and culture in Africa?
What is so particular about mobility in and out of Africa?
What is the role of the curator in creating or questioning the concept of contemporary African art?
Why curate “African art” exhibitions in Europe today?
PROGRAMME
13:00 Exhibition visit : Present Tense: Photographs from the South of Africa
14:00 Presentation by Caroline Hancock, co-founder of the On the Roof collective
14:10 Smooth Ugochukwu-Nzewi _ curating at the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH, USA14:30 Elise Atangana _ curating Rencontres Picha. Biennale de Lubumbashi 2012 / 2013 with artistic director Elvira Dyangani, Congolese Democratic Republic
14:50 Bonaventure Soy Bejeng Ndikung _ curating at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
15:10 Aicha Diallo _ curating the online platform Contemporary And, Berlin, Germany
15:30 António Pinto Ribeiro _ curating Present Tense: Photographs from the South of Africa, Lisbon, Portugal
15:50 Yves Chatap and Élise Atangana _ curating Cyclicités, Dakar, Senegal
16:10 Aida Muluneh _ curating Addis Foto Fest, Addis Abeda, Ethiopia | Jimmy Ogonga_ artist and curator, Nairobi, Kenya
16:30 PAUSE
16:50 Lotte Arndt – curating Carrefours culturels de décolonisation, Bétonsalon, Paris, France
17:10 Cécile Bourne _ curating with Appartement 22, Rabat, Morocco
17:30 Nontobeko Ntombela _ curating Spectaculaire (Ateliers Internationaux, FRAC-Pays de la Loire), Johannesburg, South Africa
17:50 Simon Njami | Yves Chatap _ after Africa Remix, Paris, France 18:10 Chantal Pontbriand, Pontbriand W.O.R.K.S. [We-Others and myself_Research_Knowledge_Systems] _ curating In and Out of Africa, Montreal, Canada
18:10 Chantal Pontbriand, Pontbriand W.O.R.K.S. [We-Others and myself_Research_Knowledge_Systems] _ curating In and Out of Africa, Montreal, Canada18:50 Bisi Silva _ curating at CCA, Lagos, Nigeria
19:10 Sana Tamzini _ curating at the Centre national d'art vivant, Tunis, Tunisia
19:30 New in-situ performance by Myriam Mihindou
Mais informações nos websites do Centre Calouste Gulbenkian e do On the Roof.