Reading Listening Speaking Seminar
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Teachers : Eleanor Ivory Weber, Guy Woueté
A. This seminar is linked to the multidisciplinary workshop of the Master L.I.E.N.S..
He is interested in practices that question and attempt to deconstruct the colonial narrative. The history of colonialism has had a significant impact on the development of the visual arts, both in Western and non-Western cultures.
We must go beyond the forms (of dominations) produced by colonialism as a system of dehumanization and alienation. This is where the concept of Coloniality interests us, as it refers to the ongoing effects of colonialism that shape and influence the social, political, economic and cultural systems of the world today. In particular, it is a question of contesting the simplistic categories that assign everyone a monocultural identity card, neglecting multiple affiliations, self-rewritings, beautiful escapes or new beginnings.
Let's make stories so that the voices of the damned of the earth resonate. Let us question the maroonage and the Woke culture to escape the monoculture of Eurocentric universalism.
B. This seminar offers regular collective reading work. The texts are provided in French and English. These readings involve each participant in the seminar by inviting them to read. The reading proposal serves as the basis of the seminar, nourished by readings of videos, performances and conferences. The readings go with in-depth discussions of the topics covered. The teacher feeds and guides the discussion. At each session, at least one text and one work are proposed. We are interested in the possible tensions between text and work, work and work, their complementarities and their differences, as well as the juxtaposition of different artistic positions. The relationships between writing, theory and production of artistic works are thus woven.
C. The third axis of the seminar includes a proposal from the students, an intervention that answers the question of rupture and/or brake within its practice.
We are particularly interested in the conditions (economic, social, sexual-gendered, political, subjective, etc.) that serve as the basis for each artistic proposal. We seek to learn how to work with or against these conditions, in order to be aware of the possible transformations.
course materials
Anthologie de l’art africain du XXe siècle, éd. Revue Noire, 2001
Les statues meurent aussi, 30:00 mins, Présence africaine éditions et Tadié Cinéma Production, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Ghislain Cloquet, 1953
Un-Documented_ Unlearning Imperial Plunder, 35:00 mins, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay 2019
Simon Njami : «Les œuvres africaines conservées en Occident ont perdu leur âme » Tribune Le Monde Afrique 23 juin 2019
Qui annule quoi ?, Laure Murat, éd. Seuil 2022
154 FORUM Sindika Dokolo on an African Collection of Contemporary art Tania Bruguera - Immigrant Movement International, Five Years and Counting, An Interview with Tania Bruguera, Alex Kershaw FIELD 1, 2015 (vidéo Penny Stamps speaker series 58:03 mins)
Indochina, on the trace of a mother, 1:10mins, Idrissou Mora Kpai, 2012
Lumumba, la mort du prophète, 1:09:00 mins, Raoul Peck, 1991
Living as Form; Archive of Socially Engaged Practices from 1991-2011
Museum Of Contemporary African Art, vol 1, 2, Bart de Baere, Nicolas Dings, Jean Bernard Koeman, Sebastian Lopez, Anna Tilroe, Piet Vanrobaeys, Chris Dercon, Kerryn Greenberg, 2001, 2014
Petite Histoire de l’Afrique, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, éd. La Découverte 2011, 2016
Discours sur le colonialisme, suivi de Discours sur la Négritude, Aimé Césaire, Présence Africaine 1955 et 2004
Les Damnés de la terre, Frantz Fanon, Librairie François Maspero 1961, 1968 et éd. La Découverte & Syros 2002
Africa Unite ! Une histoire du panafricanisme, Amzat Boukari-Yabara, éd. La Découverte & Syros 2014, 2017
Afrotopia, Felwine Sarr, Philippe Rey, 2016
Que faire des statues et monuments coloniaux ? Achille Mbembe, Le Messager Mars 2006///Article N° : 4354
J’étouffe, Raoul Peck, Le UN Hebdo, 9 juin 2020
Pascale Mathine Tayou; Black Forest, sous la direction de Jérôme Sans, éd. Hervé Chopin/Fondation Clément 2019
Contemporary African Art Since 1980, Okwui Enwezor & chika Okeke-Agulu, Une Écologie Décoloniale, Malcom Ferdinand, On Decoloniality Concepts, Analytics, Praxis Catherine E. Walsh, Walter Mignolo, Duke University Press 2018
Penser l'envers obscur de la Modernité; une Anthologie de la pensée decoloniale latino-americaine, sous la direction de; Claude Bourguignon Rougier, Philippe Colin, Ramón Grosfoguel, Collectif, Presses Universitaires de Limoges et du Limousin 2014