Tag: Curating Difficult Knowledge

• Contemporary Art Conversations: “In the Heart of the Lights,” by curator Simon Njami

  

  Curator, writer and art critic Simon Njami will be giving a keynote lecture on 17th February 2015 to launch a series of events at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry to accompany his current exhibition WIR SIND ALLE BERLINER: 1884-2014 – A Commemoration of the Berlin Congo Conference (on display at SAVVY Contemporary  in…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  January 30, 2015

  Africa, Contemporary Art, Curating, Europe, Germany

  1884, Ann Laura Stoler, Berlin Conference, Colonialism, Cultural memory, Curating Difficult Knowledge, Imperialism, Scramble for Africa, Simon Njami

• 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