Decolonial Aesthetics I: Tangled Humanism in the Afro-European Context

ISBN-13: 9783662658987 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 193 str.

Michaela Ott; Babacar Mbaye Diop

Opis

The publication aims to make suggestions for a 'decolonisation of aesthetics'  within an Afro-European framework. The texts (whose authors come from different cultural contexts between Germany, France, Senegal, Benin, Nigeria and Tunesia) do not only refer to heterogenous aesthetic practices understood as subversive and decolonial strategies, but also discuss philosophical questions of a renewed (non-in)dividual humanism. The artistic practices analyzed include artistic installations and ensembles as well as actions in urban and rural space, deceptive manœuvres at the borders and their photographic documentation, and many more.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Decolonial aesthetics/aesthesis has become a connector across the continents: A conversion with Walter Mignolo.- On Decolonizing Philosophy and the Art.- Humanism – from individual to dividual concept.- African art: debates and controversies.- Decolonizing African Aesthetics in a Globalised World: A Way Forward.- Deberlinizing the arts: the art works of Mansour Ciss Kanakassy.- The Notion of Mobility in Barthélémy Toguo’s Work.- Fanon’s Odyssy: A Cannibalistic Feast.- Art and Life at Ìsàlè̩-Ọ̀yó̩ community: Dividuation beyond the I and We to the atypical ternary others.- Artistic practices in postcolonial context in Benin Republic: cases of Magou Amedée and ‘Eclosion Urbaine (1990-2007).- The decolonization of the imaginary and the conquest of the artistic work: towards a decolonial ethico-aesthetics.- Challenge to Reality: Against Appropriation, Decolonization as Deprovincialization, or Some Lessons Taught by Cape Town Punk Rock.

O autorze

Michaela Ott is a Professor of Aesthetic Theory at the HfbK Hamburg. 

Babacar Mbaye Diop is a Professor of Philosophy at Cheikh-Anta-Diop-University Dakar/Senegal.

Blurb

The publication aims to make suggestions for a 'decolonisation of aesthetics' within an Afro-European framework. The texts (whose authors come from different cultural contexts between Europe and Africa) do not only refer to heterogenous aesthetic practices understood as subversive and decolonial strategies, but also discuss philosophical questions of a renewed (non-in)dividual humanism. The artistic practices analyzed include artistic installations and ensembles as well as actions in urban and rural space, deceptive manœuvres at the borders and their photographic documentation, and many more.