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SUMMARY:Exhibition Black Planet 
DESCRIPTION:Pan-Africanism\, first named and theorized around 1900\, is commonly regarded as an umbrella term for political movements that have advanced the call for both individual self-determination and global solidarity among peoples of African descent. It has yet to be fully examined as a worldview that takes its force from art and culture. \nAs the first major exhibition to survey Pan-Africanism’s cultural manifestations\, Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica gathers together some 350 objects\, spanning the 1920s to the present\, made by artists on four of the world’s seven continents: Africa\, North and South America\, and Europe. Panafrica\, the promised land named in the exhibition title\, is presented as a conceptual place where arguments about decolonization\, solidarity\, and freedom are advanced and negotiated with the aim of an emancipatory future. Rather than a stable and defined territory\, the exhibition maps Panafrica as a shifting and boundless constellation that transforms and reassembles standard representation of the planet. \n \n \nIn fact\, many artists featured in the exhibition have creatively redrawn the map of Africa or the world: Yto Barrada (Paris\, born 1971\, lives in Tangier)\, Kerry James Marshall (Birmingham\, born 1955\, lives in Chicago)\, and Abdoulaye Ndoye (Dakar\, born 1951\, lives in Dakar. Others\, including David Hammons (Springfield\, IL\, born 1943\, lives in New York)\, Edith de Kyndt (Ypres\, born 1960\, lives in Berlin and Brussels)\, Chris Ofili (Manchester\, born 1968\, lives in Port of Spain and London)\, and Kawira Mwirichia (Nairobi\, 1984–2020)\, have made flags which correspond to no official nation but rather imagine a transnational solidarity. \n \nFraming the individual artworks in the exhibition are the ideas of three influential 20th-century cultural and political movements—Garveyism\, Négritude\, and Quilombismo—that offer competing visions of a Black Planet\, all of them premised on a great contrast with the world we all inhabit today. Further exhibition spaces in Project a Black Planet spotlight debates around Blackness\, inner life\, political and psychological agitation\, and the role of ancestors and spirituality. \nThe center of the exhibition\, meanwhile\, turns around an extensive display of books\, magazines\, record albums\, and ephemera which have helped circulate ideas of resistance and self-invention worldwide since the early 20th century. Together this expansive presentation—artworks from across the globe in nearly every media—prompts questions and invites visitors to grapple with and participate in Pan-Africanism’s calls for equality and social transformation. \nProject a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica is curated by Antawan I. Byrd\, associate curator of Photography and Media\, Art Institute of Chicago\, and assistant professor of Art History\, Northwestern University; Elvira Dyangani Ose\, director\, Museu d’art contemporani de Barcelona; Adom Getachew\, Professor of Political Science and Race\, Diaspora and Indigeneity\, University of Chicago; and Matthew S. Witkovsky\, vice president for strategic art initiatives and Sandor Chair of Photography and Media\, Art Institute of Chicago. \nSPONSORS \nLead foundation support for Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica is generously contributed by the Harris Family Foundation in memory of Bette and Neison Harris. \nMajor support is provided by The Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Family Foundation\, Hilary and Gidon Cohen\, the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation (EHTF)\, the Artworkers Retirement Society\, the Council for Canadian American Relations\, The Opatrny Family Foundation\, the Lewis and Susan Manilow Fund\, and Gary Metzner and Scott Johnson. \nThis exhibition is made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. \nMembers of the Luminary Trust provide annual leadership support for the museum’s operations\, including exhibition development\, conservation and collection care\, and educational programming. The Luminary Trust includes an anonymous donor\, Karen Gray-Krehbiel and John Krehbiel\, Jr.\, Kenneth C. Griffin\, the Harris Family Foundation in memory of Bette and Neison Harris\, Josef and Margot Lakonishok\, Ann and Samuel M. Mencoff\, Sylvia Neil and Dan Fischel\, Cari and Michael J. Sacks\, and the Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation. \nRead More / Bookings \n 
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SUMMARY:Sarah Maldoror - An Alternative Identity (Tapies Foundation)
DESCRIPTION:The season of films Sarah Maldoror. An Alternative Identity responds to the need to network with the city’s institutions to develop a de-localised programme and the desire to highlight a pioneer of African film like Sarah Maldoror\, who left us a wonderful legacy on the subject of negritude. The season sets out to revisit Maldoror’s work\, as a figure as yet little-known but essential in dealing with the decolonial movement and struggles for social diversity. The four sessions\, designed by the Museu Tàpies with the special support of Annouchka de Andrade\, the film-maker’s daughter\, will set out from Maldoror’s visual poetics to portray a future society rooted in anticolonialism and pan-Africanism. \nSarah Maldoror (Condom\, France\, 1929 – Fontenay-lès-Bris\, France\, 2020) is considered the first black woman to make a feature-length film in Africa and represents a key figure in world and revolutionary cinema\, firmly and unabashedly anti-racist. Over several decades\, her prolific body of work includes more than forty films that combine fiction and documentary in the broadest sense of the term. Altogether it is a kind of poetry dedicated to translating the black cultural\, social and political movement into images and sound. \nThe seminar\, with the participation and collaboration of the Filmoteca de Catalunya and the Institut Français de Barcelone\, will invite film critics\, activists and sociologists to help to construct a fruitful dialogue around concepts like colonialism\, social justice and migration\, but will also deal with broader terms in connection with possession\, baggage\, heritage or identity. \nThe films to be screened in this season are: Monangambé\, Ana Mercedes Hoyos\, the Carnival trilogy (Carnaval dans le Sahel\, Fogo\, l’île de feu\, Carnaval en Guinée-Bissau)\, Aimé Césaire\, le masque des mots and Sambizanga.
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SUMMARY:Sarah Maldoror - An Alternative Identity - Cataluña cinematek (Barcelona)
DESCRIPTION:The season of films Sarah Maldoror. An Alternative Identity responds to the need to network with the city’s institutions to develop a de-localised programme and the desire to highlight a pioneer of African film like Sarah Maldoror\, who left us a wonderful legacy on the subject of negritude. The season sets out to revisit Maldoror’s work\, as a figure as yet little-known but essential in dealing with the decolonial movement and struggles for social diversity. The four sessions\, designed by the Museu Tàpies with the special support of Annouchka de Andrade\, the film-maker’s daughter\, will set out from Maldoror’s visual poetics to portray a future society rooted in anticolonialism and pan-Africanism. \nSarah Maldoror (Condom\, France\, 1929 – Fontenay-lès-Bris\, France\, 2020) is considered the first black woman to make a feature-length film in Africa and represents a key figure in world and revolutionary cinema\, firmly and unabashedly anti-racist. Over several decades\, her prolific body of work includes more than forty films that combine fiction and documentary in the broadest sense of the term. Altogether it is a kind of poetry dedicated to translating the black cultural\, social and political movement into images and sound. \nThe seminar\, with the participation and collaboration of the Filmoteca de Catalunya and the Institut Français de Barcelone\, will invite film critics\, activists and sociologists to help to construct a fruitful dialogue around concepts like colonialism\, social justice and migration\, but will also deal with broader terms in connection with possession\, baggage\, heritage or identity. \nThe films to be screened in this season are: Monangambé\, Ana Mercedes Hoyos\, the Carnival trilogy (Carnaval dans le Sahel\, Fogo\, l’île de feu\, Carnaval en Guinée-Bissau)\, Aimé Césaire\, le masque des mots and Sambizanga. \nPurchase tickets
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SUMMARY:Screens: A Panafrica Film Series (Chicago)
DESCRIPTION:For modern and contemporary artists working between Africa and the diaspora\, film and photography have been tremendously important forms of creative expression. \nThe six moving-image makers featured in Screens share the planetary hopes of Pan-Africanism\, a set of bold visions first developed before 1900 that have galvanized global struggles for freedom and solidarity ever since. \nThe films underscore the great attention paid by African and African diasporic contemporary artists to legacies of the 1950s and ’60s. In those decades\, people of African descent worldwide achieved unprecedented gains in national sovereignty\, cultural expression\, and political recognition. That heyday of decolonization and civil rights sharpened Pan-African imaginations: fostering visions of contemporary self-affirmation\, on the one hand\, and on the other\, a global connectedness for Black people. \n \nStudio portraiture and photojournalism both assumed great prominence in these decades\, whether by offering empowering representations of ordinary subjects or shedding light on struggles for justice and human rights. In 1969\, meanwhile\, filmmaker Sarah Maldoror (1929–2020) produced her first short film\, Monangambééé\, which captured the essence of struggles for equality in the nation of Angola. \n \nThe film contributed to broader discourses about the role of the moving image in shaping Pan-African activism and cultural expression. Maldoror’s twin emphases on popular will and personal self-invention reverberate in the films presented in this series\, as they address the past and the popular as intertwined sources for inspiration and as a means to envision our shared world. \nThe following films will be screened during the exhibition run (a screening schedule will be announced before the opening): \nSarah Maldoror\, Monangambééé (1969) \nSarah Maldoror\, And the Dogs Fell Silent (1978) \nLarry Achiampong\, Relic Traveler: Phase 1 (2017) \nMónica de Miranda\, Pathway to the Stars (2019) \nZarina Bhimji\, Out of Blue (2002) \nSammy Baloji\, AEQUARE: The Future That Never Was (2023) \nSteffani Jemison\, The Meaning of Various Photographs to Tyrand Needham (2009–10) \nSurrounding the screening room\, a film-like ribbon of approximately two dozen studio and press photographs shows scenes of public life from the mid-20th century and more recently. \nScreens: A Panafrica Film Series is curated by Antawan I. Byrd\, associate curator of Photography and Media\, Art Institute of Chicago\, and assistant professor of Art History\, Northwestern University; Adom Getachew\, professor of Political Science and Race\, Diaspora\, and Indigeneity\, University of Chicago; and Matthew Witkovsky\, Richard and Ellen Sandor Chair and Curator\, Photography and Media\, and vice president for strategic art initiatives. \nPurchase Tickets \n  \n 
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