Tag: Corporeality

• Illusions Vol. I, Narcissus and Echo, by Grada Kilomba

  

  Earlier in 2019 I was fortunate to present a paper at an international conference on African-European Studies that took place in Portugal at the ISCTE-IUL Lisbon University Institute. While there, I took the opportunity to visit a number of museums and galleries to review exhibitions and collections featuring works by modern and contemporary visual artists…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  December 1, 2019

  African Diaspora, Art, Contemporary Art, Film, Performance Art, Portugal, Racism

  Blackness, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Corporeality, Decolonisation, Grada Kilomba, Installation

• Black Portraiture[s] III: Reinventions – Jo’burg Conference, 17-19 November 2016

  

  “BLACK PORTRAITURE[S] III: Reinventions: Strains of Histories and Cultures” is the seventh conference in a series of transnational and diasporic conversations about imaging the black body. It offers a forum that gives artists, activists, educators and scholars from around the world an opportunity to share ideas, from historical topics to current research on the 40th anniversary of…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  October 2, 2016

  Africa, African Diaspora, Conferences, Contemporary African Art, Cultural Discourse, Diasporas, Fashion, Film, Photography, South Africa, Visual Analysis

  Afrofuturism, Corporeality, Cultural politics, Identity, Johannesburg, Kudzanai Chiurai, Representation, Scholar-activism, Sites of memory

• Memory and Museums at “AfroEuropeans V” (University of Münster, Germany)

  

  Earlier in September I was pleased to present a conference paper at AfroEuropeans V: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe (University of Münster, 16-19 September 2015) – the fifth biennial network event exploring socio-political issues and spatialities relating to histories of migration, diaspora formation, economic interdependencies and cultural links between Africa and Europe. My contribution…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  September 28, 2015

  African Diaspora, Art – Politics, Conferences, Cultural Discourse, Diasporas, Europe, Germany, Museums, Performance Art, Racism

  African European Studies, AfroEuropean, Anna Rastas, Anti-racism, Anti-racist art, Corporeality, ENPAD, European Network for People of African Descent, Finnish Labour Museum Werstas, Nathalie Mba Bikoro, University of Münster

• Debates about the “The War on Black Bodies,” situated in contrasting cultural spaces in New York and London

  

  “How can we transform the ways in which identity is conceived so that identities do not emerge and function only through the oppression and subordination of other social identities?” – Elizabeth Grosz (2011). Source: Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art (Grosz, 2011: 89) “The War on Black Bodies” (Part 1) – the…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  September 21, 2014

  Art – Politics, London, Racism, United Kingdom

  ‘Human Zoo’, Activism, Black Cultural Archives, Brett Bailey, Claudia De La Cruz, Corporeality, Curating Difficult Knowledge, Darnell Moore, Elizabeth Grosz, Exhibit B, Ferguson, Identity, Khalil Muhammad, New York, Nitro, Performance, Representation, Schomburg, Stereotyping, The Black Body, War on Black Bodies

• Black Portraitures II: Imaging the Black Body and Re-Staging Histories (Florence – 28-31 May, 2015)

  Black Portraitures II: Imaging the Black Body and Re-Staging Histories (Florence, Italy, 28-31 May 2015) is the sixth in a series of highly successful conferences staged by New York University (NYU) in collaboration with Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research. “This conference will bring together artists and scholars from an assortment of disciplines…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  September 10, 2014

  Art, Conferences, Fashion, Film, Visual Analysis

  Academia, Aesthetics, Corporeality, Events, Italy, Portraiture, Representation, Sense of place