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Vorlesungsverzeichnis Wintersemester 2024/2025

Black Arts Movements

Typ:
Theorieseminar
Semester:
WS 21/22
Zielgruppe:
Grundstudium
Voraussetzungen

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Termine - Ort & Zeit

TypAnfangEndeTagTurnusvon-bisOrt
25.10.2124.01.22MontagWöchentlich10:00 - 13:00Filzengraben 18-24, Seminarraum 0.18/0.19
Typ
Anfang25.10.21
Ende24.01.22
TagMontag
TurnusWöchentlich
von-bis10:00 - 13:00
OrtFilzengraben 18-24, Seminarraum 0.18/0.19

Beschreibung des Seminars

Prefigured in the Negritude Movement and the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movements of the 1960’s and 1970’s were informed by a global political awakening and mobilization amongst black people and other colonized people. Energized and inspired by anti-colonial, civil rights, and black power politics, the Black Arts Movements responded with innovation and renewal. However these art movements were not merely the aesthetic representation of this mobilization but experiments in the new forms of social life this mobilization might take. The collectives of the Black Arts Movements were the vanguard of the revolution, but a vanguard returning to the source, as Amilcar Cabral put it. Or as the founder of Kuumba Theatre in Chicago Val Gray Ward put it ‘black art is black life.’ In their commitment to finding necessary ways to work together, to serve the people, and to dismantle the figure of the artist and the scene of the art world in favor of something more organic, the Blacks Arts Movements anticipated transversality.


Moreover these transversal experiments found their most expansive form in performance, no matter the media or art discipline out of which they emerged. This seminar thus proposes to look at three festivals: Festac ‘77 in Nigeria, Carifesta ‘76 in Jamaica, and WattStax ‘72 in Los Angeles. None of these festivals was without its problems but at their best they reconfigured audiences and peoples, and to misquote Cabral art became the humus out of which something like revolution might emerge.


Alongside our study of these festivals we will screen several films including London’s Black Audio Collective and their film Handsworth Songs (1986), a film from Los Angeles Rebellion, Charles Burnett’s The Killer of Sheep (1978), Juan Declan’s AfriCOBRA: Art for the People, and more recently films by younger generation film-maker Ephraim Isili. The seminar will also draw on the following key texts.

nachträgliche Änderungen / Ergänzungen

Key Readings:

- Sonia Sanchez et al., Eds. SOS – Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader (2014)

- Elvira Dyangani Ose, Ed., Festac Reader: Second World Black and African Festival of Art and Culture (2019)

- La Donna Forsgren, Sistuhs in the Struggle: An Oral History of Black Arts Movement Theatre and Performance (2020) Guests: Fred Moten Edward George & Dhanveer Brar


Guests:

Fred Moten

Edward George & Dhanveer Brar


Studienbüro

Studienbüro
Karin Cordes

Juliane Schwibbert

Claudia Warnecke

Heumarkt 14

50667 Köln


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Öffnungszeiten:

Montag + Dienstag von 10 - 13  Donnerstag von 10 - 16 Uhr


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Wintersemester 2024/25

Vorlesungszeit:
21.10.2024 bis 14.02.2025

Winterpause:

23.12.2024 bis 03.01.2025



Sommersemester 2025

Vorlesungszeit:

14.04. 2025 bis 25.07.2025

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