Category: Congo (Democratic Republic)
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ECAS: 7th European Conference on African Studies (Basel, 29 June-1 July 2017)
The 7th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) will be taking place at the University of Basel (Switzerland) from 29th June to 1 July 2017. The theme for this year is “Urban Africa – Urban Africans: New encounters of the rural and the urban,” and I am aware from the preliminary call for panels that there…
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“Senses of Time”: an exhibition co-organized by LACMA and the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art (2016-17)
“Senses of Time” is a series of films and video-based contemporary artworks by six artists from the global African diasporas. In each case the contributors invite their audiences to consider the various tensions, contradictions and ambiguities that can exist between personal and political time, ritual and technological time, and corporeal and mechanical temporalities. The following six film and…
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Steve Bandoma, Congolese visual artist
“MA CULTURE C’EST MON PHYSIQUE, MON ART C’EST MA MÉTA-PHYSIQUE.” – Steve Bandoma, African Arts Institute (AFAI, 2010) The following post was originally published on the ‘African Contemporary Art Now‘ Wordpress site (15.09.2014) and introduces Congolese visual artist Steve Bandoma (b. 1981) – a graduate in Fine Arts from Kinshasa, whose portfolio of work presents a powerful critique on key issues relating…
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Kinshasa: a ‘site of dreams’ for contemporary visual artists
“It is a site of dreams, where dreams encounter each other and become a single body. However, on the level of our own experience of that urban environment, once one plunges into the life of the city and participates in it, it inevitably diversifies and becomes multiple.” – Extract from an interview with Vincent Lombume Kalimasi…
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Exploring ‘othering’ through the work of Congolese pop artist Chéri Samba
The triptych, Quel Avenir Pour Notre Art? [What Future for Our Art?] (1997) by Congolese pop artist Chéri Samba (b. 1956) presents visual and textual representations of three significant stages in the artist’s life and career. Painted in acrylics in Samba’s characteristic comic strip style he combines self-portraiture, symbolic imagery and textual narratives to pose…
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