Kategorie: Africa

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  • Liste zu Contemporary African Art auf der englischsprachigen Wiki (Definitions of contemporary African art, Exhibitions (chronologisch), Collection of Essays, Publications, Magazines, Databases, See also: By country)
  • Liste zur Kunst Südafrikas

Chinese-African Connections

  • Wifredo Lam/ 林飛龍 (Lín Fēilóng), geboren am 2. Dezember 1902 Sagua la Grande, Kuba; † 11. September 1982 Paris, Frankreich
  • Pascale Marthine Tayou, geboren 1967 in Yaoundé, Kamerun. EXPO 2010 Shanghai
  • Kendell Geers (Südafrika) hosts his first solo art exhibition in mainland China at Galleria Continua. In „Fin de Partie,“ Geers attempts to connect his artistic experience with local Chinese culture.
  • Michael MacGarry: „Hu Jintao and the Scramble for Africa“, 2007, Okiyi mask auf US Ghillie suit, South African Art Now p.104
  • Cài Gúoqiáng 蔡国强 : Saraab/Mirage https://www.alaintruong.com/archives/2011/12/06/22897065.html „ساي جوو تشانغ: سراب“ (December 5, 2011 – May 26, 2012) https://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/18050/cai-guo-qiang-saraab-at-mathaf-arab-museum-of-modern-art-qatar.html

Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibitions Open In South Africa, Canada

Diverese: Zhang Huan: „12 Square Metres“, 1994. Travelled to the West in 1990s, performing (fish and oil honey covered)

Penny Siopis: Ambush, 2008 – Hokusai Fishermans wife dreams, octopus

  • disappearing Liu Bolin https://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/15618/liu-bolin-hiding-in-new-york-performances.html (planking, urban camouflage)
  • Cài Gúoqiáng 蔡国强 : Saraab/Mirage : ‚homecoming‘ is a series of stones from quanzhou in which arabic inscriptions of tombstones are inscribed from quanzhou’s historic arab community. the rocks wind their way from the museum’s courtyard into the atrium, symbolizing their homecoming.
  • Wolfgang Kraker von Schwarzenfeld: Global Stone https://www.globalstone.de/documents/Illius_ad_Kueka.pdf ; https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/stadtleben/installation-global-stones-stonehenge-imtiergarten/3862550.html

Yello Cake

Gestern habe ich „Yellow Cake“ im Babylon gesehen. Sehr guter Film. Mir kam es so vor, als könnte man die aktuelle Politik der gezielten Desinformation der nigeranischen in Uranminen Arbeitenden mit dem Skandal um WISMUT in Deutschland gut vergleichen. Es wird der neue Begriff „Umweltrassismus“ (Environmental racism) in „Auf Augenhöhe“ erwähnt.

– “Auf Augenhöhe” (2010, 11 Minuten) https://strahlendesklima.de/
– „Yellow Cake“ von Joachim Tschirner (2005-2010, 108 min.) https://www.uranium-network.org/

2007 gab es eine Photoausstellung in New York von Thomas Demand, der sich mit Uranabbau im Niger beschäftigte:  ‚Yellowcake‘, 303 GALLERY, Nov 3, 2007

better the bester

I held my presentation about Mr Bester. I was very attracted to his „Dogs of War“ and tried comparing them to actual canine robots. some of them even connected to war.

with one teardrop in my sad eye, I left out the laugh of inserting k-9 of dr. who. Instead, I included:

i still need to ask mr bester if he read about those, especially about the boston dynamics big dog before he created his „dogs of war“. could’ve been possible!

Ife & Connaisseurship

I held my first presentation about african art. I thought long about scanning the pictures I got but eventually settled on photographing them with my grandfather’s canon ixus for best resolution. Also, I took some screenshots of a video. It turned out quite good, the prof even asked me for my presentation. So I guess the extra work was fine.
For some reason I can only be satisfied with my work if I get positive feedback. During research, I often talk with my partner about it. I guess it annoys him from time to time since he is from natural sciences, but he gives me precious new thoughts and opinions on my often very specific subjects. Sometimes, he seems to be proud of me, but I cannot quite trust his pride of my work. What I miss is positive feedback from someone I assume has some connaisseurship. I found it strange. I attended a lecture of one of my most adored professors this week. he talked about connaisseurship as well, and the significance of argueing within your field of study with people from your cultural area. He even went further narrowing it on the same linguistic area.
On my research on Ife, I recongnized even now there are VERY FEW africans writing about their own art.
One of the names I recognized was Ekpo EYO.
„Ekpo Eyo was the second Nigerian archaeologist and became Director of Antiquities in the mid-1960s…“ [https://www.jstor.org/pss/1160622] but then, he got his grade from Maryland, USA.
I think I should look up several other names that crossed my way and also check the Nigerian Univeristies website. I hope theres a department for Art History. I really hope so…

PS: I was at the doctor’s today. I had to fill out a form about fear and social interactions. I answered honestly. I guess I can be officially described as a panicy misanthrope now. But guess what, I feel okay with that. Sometimes, staying away from everyone does me better than forcing myself to be merrily around people, and I consider myself „too imaginative“ instead of panicy… Well. Whatever. Hello Mrs Salander.

back from the UK

I finished my censorship paper. I’m thinking about uploading it, hence there’s quite few information on this particular topic. Highly recommendable nevertheless is an exhibition catalogue on Ukiyo-e and censorship by Sarah E. Thompson and H. D. Harootunian, „Undercurrents in the floating world“ (1991).

I spent three weeks in the UK, mainly to drink tea and play with the dog of my parent’s friends living there. My last days were in London, where I literally lived at the V&A/ National Art Library. It’s great and if you have the chance going to London, don’t miss the V&A. Notes for the next visit:
*For observing objects closely, you can actually preorder several objects from the British Museum. (at least one month in advance)
*DO NOT fly Ryanair.

This semester, I’ll spent some time with African Art. I’ll have to prepare papers and PPP for
*Ife Art and
*a selection of works by Willie Bester.

Still pending:
*Last makeup on Shino and Raku
*wait for reply on kambodian buddha

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UPDATE 14.09.2010

I signed on Scripd and uploaded my paper. You can find it here:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/37425115/Zensurstempel-auf-yakusha-e-von-den-Kansei-Reformen-bis-zur-Meiji-Zeit-1791-1868

UPDATE 17.04.2012

I quit my Scripd Account but uploaded it on my blog here:  2010: Zensurstempel auf yakusha-e von den Kansei-Reformen bis zur Meiji-Zeit (1791-1868) (.pdf)