The Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: Events
Thursday, 24 October 2024, 11:00
Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Am Wingertsberg 4, 61348 Bad Homburg
Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften of Goethe UniversityFKH colloquium
Gladys Kalichini
»Visualising Resistance in Post-Independence African Nations«Abstract
This presentation deliberates on my practice as an artist and art historian that focuses on narratives about women to expound on social, political and cultural phenomena in post-independence African nations. The presentation will articulate a notion of in-visibility that underpins my practice. Within the context of my work, in-visibility is defined as a dynamic process in which independence narratives evolve over time, sometimes revealing memories associated with women and at other times rendering women invisible. This notion of in-visibility is used to question the structural conditions, and discursive formations that produce invisibility and tokenism visibility. In the latter part of the presentation, I will focus on three of my visual projects that form part of a broader project titled InVisible Freedom Fighters that seeks to assemble erased and fragmented archives in order to construct emancipatory sites of memory that store multiple histories.
The speaker
Gladys Kalichini is an art historian and practising artist. She completed her PhD in Art History at Rhodes University in 2023. From September 2024 to August 2025, she is a fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften at the invitation of the research focus »Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Atlantic World«
Participation
Closed event. Contact: Beate Sutterlüty; email: b.sutterluety@forschungskolleg-humanwissenschaften.de.
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