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| Semester | fall semester 2019 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers |
Kadiatou Nenein Diallo (k.diallo@unibas.ch)
Giorgio Miescher (giorgio.miescher@unibas.ch) Lorena Rizzo (lorena.rizzo@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | The Visual History Lab at the Centre for African Studies takes place yearly. It is a learning format, which allows students to spend one week working intensively on a particular topic. The lab ends with a public event, which students organise themselves. The Visual History Lab 2019 is concerned with the William Kentridge exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Museum für Gegenwartskunst) in Basel, which is on show between June and October 2019. William Kentridge is one of the most renowned and internationally recognised South African visual artists. We will explore how 20th century South African history is addressed in Kentridge’s oeuvre, and situate him as an artist in the politics and aesthetics of South African artistic production, a critical domain in which questions of race, class and gender are negotiated in exciting and often provocative ways. Likewise, a Kentridge show in Basel will provide the opportunity to discuss if and how his art speaks to audiences in here, and in what ways the exhibition might invite us to think about the arts, race, class and gender in a Basel context. |
| Bibliography | T. Garb, O. Enwezor, I. Vladislavic, Home lands – land marks: contemporary art from South Africa. (2008) Sue Williamson, Resistance Art in South Africa (1989) |
| Comments | Students will have exclusive access to the Kentridge exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art. They will be able to speak to curators and museum workers about the making of the exhibition, the framework programme, visitor responses, etc. An invited curator and/or artist from South Africa (nn) will join the students as an interlocutor during the lab. Concurrently students will prepare a public event scheduled for Saturday the 14th of September at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Basel. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Electives Bachelor History: Recommendations (Bachelor's degree subject: History) Modul: Areas: Afrika (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Fields: Media and Imagination (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Interdisciplinary and Applied African Studies (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Methoden - Reflexion - Theorien: Bilder - Medien - Repräsentationen (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Praxis (Master's degree subject: History) Modul: Profil: Geschichte Afrikas (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Wahlbereich Master Kunstgeschichte und Bildtheorie: Empfehlungen (Master's degree program: Art History and Image Theory) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Zentrum für Afrikastudien |