STILL FIGHTING IGNORANCE & INTELLECTUAL PERFIDY: VIDEO ART FROM AFRICA
BEN URI Gallery & Museum, London
Curator: Kisito Assangni
3 March 2014 - 30 March 2014
The Project [SFIP] is a multi-national exhibition process and a platform for critical thinking, researching and presenting African video art. The exhibition ‘Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy’ presents a selection of African video art that stands beyond the clichés that remain associated with the dark continent and the postcolonial image. It seeks to bring viewers closer to idiosyncratic readings of African video art and its thematic concerns which are largely ignored.
Reflecting an age of inter-cultural migration, [SFIP] presents African video artists who live in Africa, Europe and USA whilst providing a meeting point for knowledge and interest in the relationship between self and society. Most works address issues of alterity, identity, tolerance and social relationships as artists reflexively consider their sense of place and belonging in an increasingly interconnected world.
From experimental video to short film, this show focuses on aesthetic and methodological perspectives of fighting ignorance and intellectual perfidy in contemporary African art. The project tells Africa’s story by African new media artists as seen through the lens of the relation between tradition and modernity.
Including:
Said Afifi (Morocco) | Nirveda Alleck (Mauritius) | Jude Anogwih (Nigeria) | Younes Baba-Ali (Morocco) | Rehema Chachage (Tanzania) | Saidou Dicko (Burkina Faso) | Ndoye Douts (Senegal) | Kokou Ekouagou (Togo) | Mohamed El Baz (Morocco) | Samba Fall (Senegal) | Dimitri Fagbohoun (Benin) | Wanja Kimani (Kenya) | Nicene Kossentini (Tunisia) | Kai Lossgott (South Africa) | Michele Magema (D.Congo) | Nathalie Mba Bikoro (Gabon) | Victor Mutelekesha (Zambia) | Johan Thom (South Africa) | Saliou Traoré (Burkina Faso) | Guy Woueté (Cameroon) | Ezra Wube (Ethiopia).
The Curator
Kisito Assangni is a Togolese-French curator and producer who studied photography and museology. Currently living between London, Paris and Lomé, his practice primarily focuses on psycho-geography and post-globalisation impact on contemporary african cultures. He was also member of jury for the Award LETTERS FROM THE SKY in Cape Town (South Africa) as well as the 28th Prix VIDEOFORMES in Clermont-Ferrand (France). Kisito is the founder/curator of TIME IS LOVE SCREENING – international video art program and [SFIP] project.
Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
St John's Wood
108A Boundary Road,
London NW8 0RH.
Tel: +44 (0)207 604 3991.
www.benuri.org.uk
http://sfip-project.blogspot.com
Image Credits: © Rehema Chachage, Kwa baba, 2010,video still
