Seminar/konferanse, Samtale/debatt
Eurafrica
The Master's programme in Art and Public Space (MAPS) is organizing a half-day event with invited guests to talk about research-oriented practices that are focusing at uneasy situations, political subject and controversies set beyond our studio or academic environment, beyond our home or our professional context (?).
A year ago, a few of MAPS students went to Senegal (West Africa) on a study trip which provoke many questions to their own doing as well as questioning the general position of the artist and /or researcher working with the subject and situation related to the un-known, outside of our personal space, dealing with humans and non-humans in a non-local environment.
We will be discussing those questions with our invited guests as well as with incidental public who might be interested to join us at ROM for kunst og arkitektur (Room for Art & Architecture), Maridalsveien 3, 0178 Oslo.
Welcome!
About Eurafrica*
Eurafrica* refers to the inter- and postwar idea and concrete project of merging Europe and colonial Africa into a single geopolitical unit and world power. As a genuine political project, it played a crucial role in the early development of the European Union but was largely forgotten afterwards. In the context of a renewed EU Strategy for Africa, and controversies about a Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, certain aspects of the project has received renewed attention in recent years.
*Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism, Peo Hansen, Stefan Jonsson, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014
Guests
Peo Hansen
Peo Hansen is Professor at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society, REMESO, Linköping University, Sweden.
Peo Hansen's research interest lies in the contemporary as well as historical development of European integration. He has written extensively on the questions of migration, citizenship and identity as these relate to the current project and political economy of European integration. He has also explored the significance of colonialism and decolonization for the historical development of European integration and the current politics of European identity.
Gitte Villesen
Gitte Villesen is a Danish visual artist. She lives and works in Berlin and Copenhagen. She studied Literature at the University of Copenhagen (1987-90), the Funen Academy of Fine Arts in Odense (1991-92) and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen (1992-1999).
Gitte Villesen works with video, installation and photography. She is best known for her videos that can be described as a dialogue-based portraiture. Her works have been depicting on other people's everyday lives since the mid-1990s. In her videos, Gitte Villesen developed a special form of personal documentary, where she films and talks at once.
Since the last 10 years she has been a regularly visiting Gambia and producing works together with Amadou Sarr and his family.
Programme
- 12:00–13:30 Welcome. Lunch workshop
- 13:30–14:30 “Senegalese group”, performative conversation: game, collective mural drawing, video collage etc.
- 14:30–15:00 Coffee break
- 15:00–17:00 Lecture: Gitte Villesen, talk & screenings & discussion
- 17:00–18:00 Book presentation: EURAFRICA* by Peo Hansen
- 18:00–19:00 Q & A with the Ataya
The organizer is holding the rights of changing the schedule according to the flow of the day.