You are warmly invited to the following seminar on Wednesday 11th November:
Accounting for Ghostly Presences: Caribbean Locale, Contemporary African Atlantic Artists and the Legacies of Slavery
Alan Rice, Reader in American Cultural Studies, University of Central Lancashire
Wednesday 11 November, 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Room L103
Charles Clore House
17 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DR
Abstract:
This paper examines a range of contemporary African Atlantic artists whose work re-evaluates the history of slavery through dynamic artistic interventions. It will look at the way Ellen Gallagher, Godfried Donkor and Lubaina Himid use Caribbean locale or cultural indices to make art that reacts to the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and attempts to account for its horrors. It will show how the artists make imaginative play with African Atlantic survivors of the middle passage, constructing works that answer back to what Lubaina Himid has call the “invisibilising” of their lives. The works will be interpreted using a wide range of cultural theorists from Stuart Hall and Edouard Glissant to Avery Gordon, Ian Baucom and Paul Ricoeur. These dynamic artworks give voice to “unspeakable voices unspoken” in works of beauty that seem to belie their provenance in the maelstrom of the horrific trade. The paper will talk to this paradox.
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