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Autograph ABP presents Rotimi Fani Kayode: (1955-1989)

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Autograph ABP presents Rotimi Fani Kayode: (1955-1989) Photographs in partnership with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at the Rudenstine Gallery, Harvard University. A retrospective exhibition of large-scale colour and black and white photographs by Rotimi Fani-Kayode, including archival works exhibited in the USA for the first time. Produced during the 1980s in a career spanning only six years, often in collaboration with his late partner Alex Hirst, Fani-Kayode’s photographic scenarios constitute a profound narrative of sexual and cultural difference, seminal in their exploration of complex notions of diaspora, identity, spirituality and the black male body as subject of desire. A founding member and first Chair of Autograph ABP, Fani-Kayode died in 1989. This exhibition marks twenty years since Fani-Kayode’s death, and is closely linked to the establishment of Autograph ABP’s Archive and Research Centre for Culturally Diverse Photography at Rivington Place, London. Exhibition takes

F.Y.I The Kumasi Symposium- if there are still spaces

CALL FOR ARTISTS One means of Tapping Local Resources for Sustainable Education through Art is by bringing together specialists from diverse parts of the world in a trans-national platform for inter-trading of cultural and knowledge capital in evidence-based society. In the Kumasi Curio Kiosks Project, the trade of intellectual capital from the specialist to the generalist requires both the sharing of existing and onward replication of the modules of knowledge that may accrue. Interestingly, the specialist participant will create a Curio Kiosk of 6 x 6ft for a temporary exhibition/stock of works by the specialist, and relevant other national cultural/intellectual capital for trading with the locals. The 6 x 6ft kiosk can be conceived as a mental space or a constructed physical space with any material, constructed on site or pre-fabricated, and as an individual enterprise or a collaborative one. In the Kumasi case, we refer to the cluster of curio kiosks as a Trade Commune; a historica

Autograph ABP presents Santu Mofokeng at Rivington Place

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14th January- 28th February Santu Mofokeng, solo exhibition Rivington Place. ‘One of the most important photographers of his generation’ - Simon Njami Santu Mofokeng produces photographs that refuse to be overtly political, but nonetheless contain a fundamental political dimension. He seeks a broader story about black life in which people are portrayed as more than just urban activists locked into violence. His landscapes are spaces invested with public memory and spirituality, and he investigates them in relation to ownership, ecological impact and power. His Bloemhof Portfolio tells of the lives of rural tenant farmers, and he continues to photograph industrial sites around the world, such as opencast mines, and dams. Chasing Shadows is a documentation of religious ceremonies in caves, public parks or urban waste ground. It includes photographs taken at the Motouleng Caves in the Free State, some of which feature his brother Ishmael shortly before his death from Aids. At a time whe

The Revisiting Modernization Conference

To be held from 27th - 31st July 2009 at University of Ghana, Legon (*N.B.: The deadline for the submission of abstracts has been extended until January 15th, 2009) Conference Theme Revisiting Modernization is an interdisciplinary array of activities that features an academic conference, art exhibition, creative writing competition, film screenings, and two keynote addresses to be held at the University of Ghana, Legon, from 27th - 31st July 2009. These activities, a collaboration between the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon and the African Studies Multi-Campus Research Group at the University of California, inaugurate an inclusive approach to thinking about the resonance of modernization in relation to the contemporary lexicon of globalization and the shifting parameters of development. This event is conceived as a forum with pre-circulated papers and contributions from a wide range of academics, policymakers, and artists from the African continent, Nort

VIDEO ART WORKSHOP CALL FOR APPLICANTS

The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos is please to present the second part of its Video Art Workshop programme LINHAIMAGINÁRIA (Imaginary Line), developed in collaboration with Angolan Artist Miguel Petchkovsky. The two week workshop will be led by three international artists working in the area of Video; Miguel Petchkovsky (Angola), Goddy Leye (Cameroon), Eustaquio Neves (Brazil). The workshop aims to: • Provide artists with a good grasp of the concepts of Video Art within contemporary artistic practice • Provide the technical ability to incorporate and create works of Video Art. • To create project based on experimentation of the video image on the classic forms of art like painting, sculpture, music and theatre. • To introduce new elements like performance. Installation, photography and sound projects. Workshop content includes: • Screening of artists videos from around the world • Talks and presentations by the workshop artists • Introduction to different video art approaches