Congoville: Contemporary Artists Tracing Colonial Tracks/Hedendaagse kunstenaars bewandelen koloniale sporen
Congoville: Contemporary Artists Tracing Colonial Tracks/Hedendaagse kunstenaars bewandelen koloniale sporen
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Congoville: Contemporary Artists Tracing Colonial Tracks/Hedendaagse kunstenaars bewandelen koloniale sporen
W032280 | $39.50
Exhibition Catalog
Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, 2021. Published by Leuven University Press.
272 pp. Well illustrated (chiefly col.) and 30 col. ref. ills. 31 x 21 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9789462702363
One hundred years after the founding of the École Coloniale Supérieure in Antwerp, the adjacent Middelheim Museum invites Sandrine Colard, researcher and curator, to conceive an exhibition that probes silenced histories of colonialism in a site-specific way. For Colard, the term Congoville encompasses the tangible and intangible urban traces of the colony, not on the African continent but in 21st-century Belgium: a school building, a park, imperial myths, and citizens of African descent. In the exhibition and this adjoining publication, the concept Congoville is the starting point for 15 contemporary artists to address colonial history and ponder its after effects as black flâneurs walking through a postcolonial city. Due to the multitude of perspectives and voices, this book is both a catalogue and a reference work comprised of artistic and academic contributions. Together, the participating artists and invited authors unfold the blueprint of Congoville, an imaginary city that still subconsciously affects us, but also encourages us to envision a decolonial utopia.
Subject Headings: International ; Western Art -- Post-1945 ; Post-1970 ; Post-1990 ; Post-2000 -- Several Fine Arts Media (Western) -- Other Non-American Minority --
W032280 | $39.50
Exhibition Catalog
Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, 2021. Published by Leuven University Press.
272 pp. Well illustrated (chiefly col.) and 30 col. ref. ills. 31 x 21 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9789462702363
One hundred years after the founding of the École Coloniale Supérieure in Antwerp, the adjacent Middelheim Museum invites Sandrine Colard, researcher and curator, to conceive an exhibition that probes silenced histories of colonialism in a site-specific way. For Colard, the term Congoville encompasses the tangible and intangible urban traces of the colony, not on the African continent but in 21st-century Belgium: a school building, a park, imperial myths, and citizens of African descent. In the exhibition and this adjoining publication, the concept Congoville is the starting point for 15 contemporary artists to address colonial history and ponder its after effects as black flâneurs walking through a postcolonial city. Due to the multitude of perspectives and voices, this book is both a catalogue and a reference work comprised of artistic and academic contributions. Together, the participating artists and invited authors unfold the blueprint of Congoville, an imaginary city that still subconsciously affects us, but also encourages us to envision a decolonial utopia.
Subject Headings: International ; Western Art -- Post-1945 ; Post-1970 ; Post-1990 ; Post-2000 -- Several Fine Arts Media (Western) -- Other Non-American Minority --
