BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news224@ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211028T094348 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20211116T191500 SUMMARY:Decolonial Perspectives on African Art: Conundrums and Antinomies DESCRIPTION:If you would like to join this event\, please contact s.burri@u nibas.ch.\\r\\nAbstract\\r\\nWhat does decolonization mean in the field of aesthetics and visual arts? How can we envision it\, and how can scholars hip in African arts contribute to such project?\\r\\nProf. Dr. Sylvester O kwunodu Ogbechie has tackled these questions for many years\, arguing that decolonizing knowledge must begin by understanding the very real historic al and ongoing expropriation of African natural\, cultural and material re sources and how it has been converted into wealth in Western collections. He will discuss his argument with us at the zoom-Seminar facilitated by th e Institute for Social Anthropology\, University of Basel.\\r\\nParticipan ts are invited to read in advance his essay “Mathias Komor and the Marke t for African Art in New York”\, in Acquiring Cultures. Histories of Wor ld Art on Western Markets\, ed. Bénédicte Savoy\, Charlotte Guichard and Christine Howald (de Gruyter\, 2018). Please contact s.burri@unibas.ch to receive the pdf file. It will be the starting point for the panel discuss ion. Please note that the session will be recorded.\\r\\n Sylvester Okwuno du Ogbechie is Professor at the department of the History of Art & Archite cture at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He specializes on t he arts and visual culture of Africa and its Diasporas\, especially in ter ms of how art history discourses create value for African cultural patrimo ny in the age of globalization. He is the author of Ben Enwonwu: The Makin g of an African Modernist (University of Rochester Press\, 2008: winner of the 2009 Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association for best sch olarly publication in African studies)\, Making History: The Femi Akinsany a African Art Collection (Milan: 5 Continents Editions\, 2011)\, and edito r of Artists of Nigeria (Milan: 5 Continents Editions\, 2012). He is the d irector of Aachron Knowledge Systems\, and founder and editor of Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. X-ALT-DESC:

If you would like to join this event\, please contact s.burri @unibas.ch.

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Abstract

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What does decoloniza tion 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?\n

Prof. Dr. Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie has tackled these questions f or many years\, arguing that decolonizing knowledge must begin by understa nding the very real historical and ongoing expropriation of African natura l\, cultural and material resources and how it has been converted into wea lth in Western collections. He will discuss his argument with us at the zo om-Seminar facilitated by the Institute for Social Anthropology\, Universi ty of Basel.

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Participants are invited to read in advance his essay “Mathias Komor and the Market for African Art in New York”\, in A cquiring Cultures. Histories of World Art on Western Markets\, ed. B énédicte Savoy\, Charlotte Guichard and Christine Howald (de Gruyter\, 2 018). Please contact s.burri@unibas.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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Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie is Professor at the department of the History of Art &\; Architect ure at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He specializes on the arts and visual culture of Africa and its Diasporas\, especially in terms of how art history discourses create value for African cultural patrimony in the age of globalization. He is the author of Ben Enwonwu: The Mak ing of an African Modernist (University of Rochester Press\, 2008: wi nner of the 2009 Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association for b est scholarly publication in African studies)\, Making History: The Fe mi Akinsanya African Art Collection (Milan: 5 Continents Editions\, 2 011)\, and editor of Artists of Nigeria (Milan: 5 Continents Edit ions\, 2012). He is the director of Aachron Knowledge Systems\, a nd founder and editor of Critical Interventions: Journal of African Ar t History and Visual Culture.

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