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go to SGSAH >> | Saturday 27 June 2015 | 13:00 | CCA, Cinema | Glasgow
Mother Tongue presents Blind Spots
Exploring Themes of Race in Archives of Visual Art through Curating
with Nana Adusei-Poku, Eddie Chambers, Loulou Cherinet, Power Ekroth
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Image Credit: Loulou Cherinet, 2009, Magical Transformations Of The World, Installation View at Röda Sten, Gothenburg. |
‘Blind Spots’ is a half-day event of presentations and discussion, accompanied by a film screening of Ruben Östlund’s 2011 ‘Play.' The programme will include presentations from four discussants; artist Loulou Cherinet (Sweden/Ethiopia), curators Nana Adusei-Poku (Netherlands) and Power Ekroth (Norway/Germany), and art historian Eddie Chambers (UK).
The event will focus on curatorial and artistic interventions into different kinds of archives; asking how the creation or maintenance of archives reflect national interests and place-making; and with a particular emphasis on projects that have sought to address racial inequalities, exclusions, grand narratives and myth-making in the visual arts. Focusing on the Nordic region and Scotland, the programme will have a particular focus on the manifestation of whiteness in northern artistic cities, drawing parallels between Stockholm, Oslo and Glasgow.
Translated excerpts of writer Oivvio Polite’s ‘White Like Me: Selected Texts on Racism’ (Danger Bay Press, Stockholm, 2007) have been translated into English specifically for this event, and will be freely distributed for all audience members.
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| Nana Adusei-Poku is Research Professor in Cultural Diversity at Rotterdam University and Guest Lecturer in Media Arts and Master Fine Arts at the University of the Arts, Zurich. She was a scholarship doctoral student at Humboldt University, Berlin, working on the curatorial concept post-black in relation to contemporary Black artists called “ Rooted in but not limited by”- Re-iterations of Post Black Art, following degrees in African studies and gender studies at Humboldt University, and in media and communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Ghana, Legon; the London School of Economics; and Columbia University, New York. She published »A Time without before and after« in Not now! now! edited by Renate Lorenz Sternberg Press, last year. Her research interests are in cultural studies, visual culture, Black diaspora art history, postcolonial, critical race theory and queer of color critique.
As part of an interest to expand the means of knowledge production, Nana is developing collaborative Peformance lectures, which use the realm of the aesthetic in order to counter classical academic notions of presentation and communication. She recently co-curated next to her professorship as curatorial fellow at Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Arts in Rotterdam an exhibition showcasing the transdisicplinary artist collective HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?, which opened on May 21st.
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| Eddie Chambers is an exhibition curator and writer of art criticism. He has been writing about artists’ practice – particularly Black-British artists - for the greater part of three decades. He holds a PhD from Goldsmiths College, University of London and is an Associate Professor, in the Art History Department of the University of Texas at Austin. His book, Things Done Change: The Cultural Politics of Recent Black Artists in Britain was published by Rodopi in 2012 and his book Black Artists in British Art: A History Since the 1950s was published by I B Tauris in 2014. He guest edited the current issue of Nka journal of Contemporary African Art, “Visualizing the Riot.”
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| Loulou Cherinet was born in Gothenburg in 1970, and now lives and works between Stockholm and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She studied Fine Art at the Addis Ababa University School of Fine Art & Design and the Royal Institute of Art KKH, Stockholm, and now teaches at KKH. As an artist, she works primarily with video and photography, creating portraits in series, dominated by narrative storytelling and highly emotional performance. Her work is rich with references to cinema and documentary film-making, often focusing on the themes of identity and the relationship between the public and the private. Her work has been exhibited extensively, both in Sweden and internationally. These include 5th Encounters of African Photography, Bamako, Mali, 2005; Africa Remix 2004-6, Dusseldorf, Paris, London and Tokyo; Luanda Pop Check List. African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2007; and Manifesta 8, 2010. Her work is in collections including Moderna Museet Stockholm, Sindika Dokolo African Collection of Contemporary Art Luanda, and the Bibliotheca Alexandria, Egypt.
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| Power Ekroth is an independent curator and critic as well as an editor based in Berlin. She is a founding editor of the recurrent publication SITE and is currently working as a guest curator at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm with a large solo-presentation of the artist John Bock, and as an Art Consultant for KORO, Public Art Norway and is a member of the board of Röda Sten, Gothenburg. Additionally she is the Artistic Director of the new MA-program of the Arts at NOVIA University of Applied Sciences, Jakobstad, Finland. She has published frequently in Artforum.com, Contemporary, Flash Art, Frieze and many other international magazines. During 2012-2013 she held the position as curator for the Momentum Biennial, Moss, Norway and during 2013-2014 she held the interim position as external curator at Telemark Kunstnersenter, Skien, Norway.
As a writer her interests lies in analyzing structures and hierarchies within society and the arts, and how they intertwine using the guideline that: "Art is philosophy come flesh". Her curatorial vision is to initiate a change of mindset of the viewer. This by mediating art that entails ideas, visions, dreams and phantasms, which formulates a meta-structure of reality.
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