Program
Carnival as a Conjuring of History and Memory
February 10-15, 2025 - Alice Yard, Port of Spain
With this collaboration and program, we extend Sustaining the Otherwise to the Caribbean. With the topic of ‘carnival and the carnivalesque’ as a point of entry for critical engagement, we explored the importance of mask making in relation to artistic practices within the region, and in relation to West Africa. This was an opportunity to engage with the notion of ‘a carnival space’, touching upon topics of ritual/memory, history/memory in terms of thinking about carnival as a conjuring of history and memory, highlighting the links between these topics/practices within a Caribbean context and as understood in relation to Africa.
February 10-15, 2025 - Alice Yard, Port of Spain
With this collaboration and program, we extend Sustaining the Otherwise to the Caribbean. With the topic of ‘carnival and the carnivalesque’ as a point of entry for critical engagement, we explored the importance of mask making in relation to artistic practices within the region, and in relation to West Africa. This was an opportunity to engage with the notion of ‘a carnival space’, touching upon topics of ritual/memory, history/memory in terms of thinking about carnival as a conjuring of history and memory, highlighting the links between these topics/practices within a Caribbean context and as understood in relation to Africa.
Ring di Alarm: On Restitution, Lingering Colonial Histories and Other Diseases
October 25, 2024 - Wereldmuseum, Leiden
In the one-day gathering, Ring di Alarm: On Restitution, Lingering Colonial Histories and Other Diseases, we dove into themes such as Memory Work, Navigating Unmapped Archives and Listening to Everyday Histories. These sessions explored how artists, designers, thinkers, activists, and communities in Africa and its diasporas imagine and practice epistemological approaches to restitution and the return of knowledge. In what ways can we stretch the notion of restitution to also include complex strategies of reparation to confront the injustices of the present?
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The Earth as a Wayfinder
September 19-20, 2024
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Lusaka Contemporary Art Center (LuCAC), Zambia
We are excited to announce Sustaining the Otherwise: The Earth as a Wayfinder, an experimental research forum curated by Amal Alhaag and Selene Wendt. Taking place September 19-20, 2024, at Lusaka Contemporary Art Center (LuCAC), this two-day event is designed to foster meaningful dialogues around restitution, with particular emphasis on the importance of transformative ecosystems.
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Unruly Knowledge:
Rehearsing for Epistemic Restitution
May 16-19, 2024 - The African Art Book Fair, Dakar
This four-day program was developed by Amal Alhaag and Selene Wendt in collaboration with Pascale Obolo, Afrikadaa, and the African Art Book Fair and aimed to explore how artists, designers, thinkers, activists, and communities in Africa and its diasporas address the concept of epistemic restitution, and the return of knowledge. The Unruly Knowledge sessions were conceived as a pluriversal call and response to the African Art Book Fair program.
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Restitution: Thinking Beyond Cultural Heritage Objects
May 2-3, 2024 - Nordic Black Theatre, Oslo
May 2-3, 2024 - Nordic Black Theatre, Oslo