Afrotekismo comes to life in Namibia
The exhibition Future Africa Visions in Time (FAVT) is one that explores visions of the future emerging from Africa and its diaspora.
What concepts of the future developed in moments of uncertainty and rapture, for example during the First World War or in the liberation movements? How is the future represented and visualised in art and fiction? How do social mobility, alternative lifestyles or a sense of identity and belonging, shape the challenges and visions of the future today? “The live museum of Afrotekismo is a collection of artwork and public interventions by local creative. The project is interested in questions of how we create African movements and how that interacts with technology and the future,” said Lendl Izaaks from Goethe Institute. The diverse areas of research and debates generated by the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies since its inception in 2013, served as a starting point for the exhibition content. It derives from discursive collaborations between invited international artists and resident researchers within the Bayreuth Academy, resulting in innovative conceptual research that traverses aesthetic and scientific approaches. Positions generated through this collaborative process also question the results and processes of academic research by aesthetically complicating them. The exhibition is aimed to open up spaces for innovative dialogues and perspectives, abandoning a single interpretation.
Through intensive conversations, artworks and conceptual positions were developed that critically engage with, reflect translate or anticipate the concepts of the general theme FAVT. In this process, a set of four keywords as modes of featuring have been developed that serve as a mapping tool for the exhibition include, performing, healing, queering and destabilising.
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What concepts of the future developed in moments of uncertainty and rapture, for example during the First World War or in the liberation movements? How is the future represented and visualised in art and fiction? How do social mobility, alternative lifestyles or a sense of identity and belonging, shape the challenges and visions of the future today? “The live museum of Afrotekismo is a collection of artwork and public interventions by local creative. The project is interested in questions of how we create African movements and how that interacts with technology and the future,” said Lendl Izaaks from Goethe Institute. The diverse areas of research and debates generated by the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies since its inception in 2013, served as a starting point for the exhibition content. It derives from discursive collaborations between invited international artists and resident researchers within the Bayreuth Academy, resulting in innovative conceptual research that traverses aesthetic and scientific approaches. Positions generated through this collaborative process also question the results and processes of academic research by aesthetically complicating them. The exhibition is aimed to open up spaces for innovative dialogues and perspectives, abandoning a single interpretation.
Through intensive conversations, artworks and conceptual positions were developed that critically engage with, reflect translate or anticipate the concepts of the general theme FAVT. In this process, a set of four keywords as modes of featuring have been developed that serve as a mapping tool for the exhibition include, performing, healing, queering and destabilising.
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