Videos

Hiding in Plain Sight: Sharon Chin

For the first event in our Hiding in Plain Sight programme, we invited Malaysia-based artist Sharon Chin to speak about her recent projects, with a starting point of her work Creatures on the Move (In the Death of the Night) (2022).

Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza on Gayatri Spivak’s ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’

In conversation with Afterall editor Elisa Adami and CSM Art Programme Director Alex Schady, artist Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza talked about her work in response to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s influential text Can the Subaltern Speak? for the Two Works series.

Part 2/2. Symposium: Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy (1974–77), 2 February 2023

This symposium is organised by Afterall Exhibition Histories. Exhibition Histories is presented in association with the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College; Asia Art Archive; and the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg. This event is supported by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

Part 1/2. Symposium: Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy (1974–77), 2 February 2023

This symposium is organised by Afterall Exhibition Histories. Exhibition Histories is presented in association with the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College; Asia Art Archive; and the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg. This event is supported by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. This is a partial recording of the symposium.

'Cities on the Move' Symposium: We Can’t Forget How to Move (Day 2), 21 July 2022

This symposium is presented by Shared Campus as the keynote event of the summer school 2022 co-organised by School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong and Zurich University of the Arts. The working committee includes William Davis, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Leung Chi Wo, and David Morris.

'Cities on the Move' Symposium: We Can’t Forget How to Move (Day 1), 20 July 2022

This symposium is presented by Shared Campus as the keynote event of the summer school 2022 co-organised by School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong and Zurich University of the Arts. The working committee includes William Davis, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Leung Chi Wo, and David Morris.

The mvuata-mable

Designer Cedrick Nzolo takes us through the soul of the Sape. Between art of living, seduction and technique of being. The mvuata-mable is drawn from the CDA (Congo Design Arts) Project which brings together three areas of research and expressiveness: textile and furniture design, fashion and architecture.

Boundaries Between the Sape and Performance Art

Artist and educator Prisca Tankwey presents on the Sape in relation to notions of identity, profile and belonging to classical categories of artistic practices. Too close to performance art, in plastic and conceptual terms, the discipline of the Sape begs a definition or the establishment of new boundaries.

On the Improbable Memorial and Other Projects

(en français) Photographer and writer Sinzo Aanza walks us through his Improbable Memorial and explores Congolese people as the direct and indirect victims of the worldwide spread of mobile phones, which are made with many materials mined in Congo and whose ubiquitous and indispensable character extends the colonial exploitation of resources and people into the present time.

Infectious Image Viral Content in the DRC

This talk by Ribio Nzeza Bunketi Buse, assistant professor at the Catholic University of Congo, will explore how and why digital content is shared and moved into circulation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ribio’s presentation discusses how visual genres such as print cartoons and popular painting now overlap with digital viral videos and memes and highlights the potential for postcolonial political critique offered by online content.

La Sape and Other Local Imaginaries in Kinshasa

(en français) Conversation between Prisca Tankwey, Cedrick Nzolo, Sinzo Aanza, Ribio Nzeza Bunketi Buse, Judith Clark, Charlotte Delacour, Adeena Mey, and Mick

Gender and Decolonisation

Gender and Decolonisation: a conversation on the stakes, problematics and possibilities of decolonisation in the 2020s, with a focus on qestions of gender. With artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and philosopher Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso, chaired by researcher Ana González Rueda.