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Sylvester Ogbechie: Decolonial Perspectives on African Art. Conundrums and Antinomies
What does decolonization mean in the field of aesthetics and visual arts? How can we envision it, and how can scholarship in African arts contribute to such project?
Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie has tackled these questions for many years, arguing that decolonizing knowledge must begin by understanding the very real historical and ongoing expropriation of African natural, cultural and material resources and how it has been converted into wealth in Western collections. He will discuss his argument at the zoom-Seminar facilitated by the Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Basel.
Participants are invited to read in advance his essay “Mathias Komor and the Market for African Art in New York”, in Acquiring Cultures. Histories of World Art on Western Markets, ed. Bénédicte Savoy, Charlotte Guichard and Christine Howald (de Gruyter, 2018).
Please contact s.burri@clutterunibas.ch to receive the pdf file. It will be the starting point for the panel discussion. Please note that the session will be recorded.
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