Open Call: 2020 China-Africa Artists Workshop Lingnan 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, Hong Kong

Curated by the Chinese in Africa/Africans in China (CA/AC) Research Network; Guangdong Times Museum in China; and the Arts of Africa & Global Souths Research Programme at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 in South Africa.

 

The Chinese in Africa/Africans in China (CA/AC) Research Network, Guangdong Times Museum, and Arts of Africa & Global Souths Research Program at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, South Africa invite African and Chinese artists to participate in a workshop for Global Souths artists at the 6th Conference of the CA/AC that will be held at Lingnan 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, Hong Kong from 9 to 11 July 2020. The workshop aims to build a community of critical Global Souths artists whose works specifically address Africa-China engagement by bridging gaps between artistic, journalistic, and scholarly practices/creations in order to complicate and diversify existing narratives and images. It is an initiative for sustained ground-up cultural exchange.

The open call is for artists working with any visual arts medium, who seek to deepen their knowledge of China and the African continent; better understand the interrelation between imperialism, orientalism, and racism; explore theories of representations; and grapple with relevant curatorial practices.

Two to four artists, dependent on available funding, will be selected to participate in the workshop. For consideration, applicants should submit the following: a curriculum vitae and digital portfolio with supporting texts, images, or video links of selected works as well as a one to two-page statement in English that shows their understanding of the connection between China and Africa. The statement should also indicate plans for continual engagement with this topic after the workshop. The selection committee will give priority to artists based in China and Africa, who demonstrate sustained interest in African actors’ engagements with China and/or Chinese actors’ engagements with the African continent. Organizers of the conference will assist with travel costs.

All applications must be submitted by January 6, 2020 to the following email address: atws@timesmuseum.org. Indicate “2020 China-Africa Artists Workshop” in the subject heading.

After the workshop, the selected candidates will have the opportunity to apply for a one-month “All the Way South” Residency Exchange with “Arts of Africa and Global Souths” in 2021 co-hosted by the Guangdong Times Museum and Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网. Details about the residency and application process will be provided by further announcement.

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The Chinese in Africa/Africans in China (CA/AC) Research Network is the only independent and international China-Africa platform for real-time discussions, interactive debates, and insightful knowledge-sharing. Our mission is to spearhead cutting-edge research, vibrant deliberations and the exchange of ideas about China-Africa issues by supporting a focused and rapidly growing global network of international scholars, students, journalists, and practitioners.

We stimulate discussions about all facets of the growing ties between Chinese and Africans, focusing especially on people-centered issues. We organize academic events and facilitate participation in international conferences for Network members and other experts. We also collaborate on publications and offer knowledge, experience, and expertise to a wider interested public.

 

Arts of Africa and Global Souths is a research programme that focuses on the ways in which scholarly and artistic production that engages with the cultural, social and political pulse of contemporary societies can reshape structures of knowledge, power and social space. Initiating, formulating and driving knowledge from the African continent and the global south, this research programme works with collaborators to situate the south at the forefront of contemporary scholarship and shift the centre of gravity of the global academy. Arts of Africa and Global Souths, in the Fine Art Department at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, hosts the Residencies for Artists and Writers (RAW) programme, and so far has hosted RAW Fellows from Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, South Africa and Germany.

 

“All the Way South” Residency Exchange situates artist research and production in a rich and complex constellation of the souths by revisiting, re-interrogating and recuperating undercurrents of culture across national and ideological borders. Historically, Canton-where Guangdong Times Museum is located in-was the port of colonial trade and subaltern migration between China and the Souths of the world. Over the past thirty years, such trajectories and imageries have been largely overshadowed by the accelerated capital and material flow. By consolidating direct circuits between southern China and the souths of the world, and by supporting research-oriented residencies and commissions, the exchange aims at creating new agencies of south-south resonance and cosmopolitanism.