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| Semester | spring semester 2024 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers |
Kadiatou Nenein Diallo (k.diallo@unibas.ch)
Sindi-Leigh McBride (s.mcbride@unibas.ch) Lorena Rizzo (lorena.rizzo@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | The eikones/African Studies Summer School 2024 takes its cue from When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, an exhibition curated by Koyo Kouoh and Tandazani Dhlakama. First shown at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art in Cape Town in November 2022 and opening at the Kunstmuseum Basel in May 2024, the exhibition explores Black self-representation and celebrates global Black subjectivities and Black consciousness from pan-African and pan-diasporic perspectives. How does an exhibition like this arrive in Basel, and what does its presence herald? How can a critical engagement with “Blackness” as signalled by the exhibition be situated in the landscape of activist projects in Switzerland, and aesthetic projects internationally? How might a critical reflection on fields, practices and literatures enrich our approach to understanding not only this exhibition, but the ‘PastPresentFuture’ (Kgositsile) spaces in which these and other questions are engaged? In many ways, the exhibition unsettles the framework of both area studies and art history, revealing important ruptures, intersections and ‘visual currencies’ (Makhubu). In doing so, When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting calls attention to how we traverse our respective fields: institutionally at the two host institutions in Basel, namely, the Centre for African Studies and eikones Centre for the Theory and History of the Image; as well as how we navigate and negotiate related epistemologies, geographies, and histories as thinkers and artists. The summer school will include invited scholars and practitioners working on topics such as: • Global issues from anticolonial black feminist perspectives • Social engagement in African visual art • Critical race studies and black radical traditions • The politics of space (and time) Participants will be expected to visit the exhibition beforehand as well as to familiarise themselves with a selection of readings and visual material in preparation for the programme which takes place in Basel between Monday 3 June and Friday 7 June 2024. It is likewise open to members of universities and other institutions of higher learning, art institutions, and museums in Basel, across Switzerland and neighbouring countries, as well as independent artists and curators. Please register at: eikones@unibas.ch by 31 March 2024. Provide your personal details, your institutional affiliation (if any) and briefly explain your interest in participating in the summer school. Number of external participants is limited to 10 people. For inquiries please contact PD Dr Lorena Rizzo at lorena.rizzo@unibas.ch |
| Bibliography | - Kojo Kouoh, Introduction, in: Kojo Kouoh (ed.), When We See Us. A Century of Black Figuration. New York, 2022: 9-11. - Denise Ferreira da Silva, Toward a Black Feminist Poethics: The Quest(ion) of Blackness Toward the End of the World, The Black Scholar 44, 2, 2014: 81–97. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5816/blackscholar.44.2.0081. - Nomusa Makhubu, Visual currencies in: Darren Newbury, Lorena Rizzo and Kylie Thomas (eds.), Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. |
| Admission requirements | The Summer School is open to MA and PhD students at the University of Basel. |
| Course application | Please register via Unibas services. Number of participants is limited to 15 students based at the University of Basel. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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| Comments | eikones Summer School vom 3. - 7. Juni 2024 |
No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Electives Bachelor History: Recommendations (Bachelor's degree subject: History) History: Recommendations (PhD subject: History) Modul: Areas: Afrika (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Koordinaten der Kreativität (Master's degree program: Cultural Techniques) Modul: Kunsthistorische Projektarbeit (Master's degree program: Art History and Image Theory) Modul: Praxis und Forschung (Master's degree subject: Art History) Modul: Profil: Moderne (Master's degree program: Art History and Image Theory) Modul: Werk und Kontext (Master's degree subject: Art History) Modul: Werk und Kontext (Master's degree program: Art History and Image Theory) Module: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master's degree program: African Studies) Module: Fields: Media and Imagination (Master's degree program: African Studies) Module: Interdisciplinary and Applied African Studies (Master's degree program: African Studies) Wahlbereich Master Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Master's degree subject: History) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Regular and active participation. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Kunstgeschichte |