Collecting and Archiving Modern and Contemporary Art on the African Continent - Cluster Project
Abstract
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Dr. Ulf Vierke, director of Bayreuth's Iwalewahaus, talks about his project: "Of Art Worlds - Collecting and Archiving Modern and Contemporary Art on the African Continent"
Find more information here: https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/Research/1research-sections/art_aestethics/Of-Art-Worlds/index.html
People & roles
- speaker
- Vierke, Ulf
Origins & context
- Title
- Collecting and Archiving Modern and Contemporary Art on the African Continent - Cluster Project
- Language
- English
- YouTube playlist
- Presenting The Cluster Projects
- Date
- October 29, 2021
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- [Music] my name is will fielker i am director of eber liver horse the center for african art mainly modern art at byron university and within the cluster i have a research project on collections on the african continent my project and my own work are centered within the research section arts and aesthetics the title of my project is on artworks art collections and art archives on the african continent and now due to corona crisis also from the african continent my project was the last to start in our research section it only started january last year and two months after the start the postdoc of my project left for maternal leave and that implies that the project probably is going to be a bit longer lasting than initially planned some of the key questions that we are talking about or that we are trying to address in the project i probably can best explain with the help of a colleague or friend uh who's with me today that's this i don't know really whether he's friendly guy but he's called the lone man in cuba and the lone man in cuba really triggered some of the key questions within the already going on project and one of the questions was is it really a work by tijani mayakiri on the back side it's written or signed to johnny mayakiri but all the other works that we have in our collection tijuani mayakiri do not really fit this one on first side now the questions of the project are how can we ascribe first of all an artwork to individualistic styles to styles but of course we are not really talking about styles we are interested in the characteristics in the form of the art objects as such and how they relate then later on to the character or the form of the collection and with this work um it's quite interesting because on the second consultation it perfectly fits but it's really work to get there and it's some days of work to know that this is a teach animal theory of its best kind of course i do not have to say too much about why it's really fascinating to work… Read the full text about 852 words
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