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This second issue of the Writing with Light Magazine explores a single theme through the shared fascinations and frustrations of photography, ethnography, and design. The View From Above issue began in 2018 at a workshop funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation, held in Austin, Texas. The issue focuses on aerial photography and the captivating set of relations and concepts animated by the so-called ‘vertical gaze.’ The contributions try to open up a ...

In this article I explore how local tropes of hole and suture tell us something about the changes that have taken place in how urbanity is imagined and lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo today. More than ever, there is the need to be attentive to new concepts that arise from the ground up to open up or rescale our thinking about a city such as Kinshasa in order to decenter and reframe urban theory more generally. The hole (and its ...

Un siècle après la fondation de l’École coloniale supérieure à Anvers, le musée voisin du Middelheim invite la chercheuse et curatrice Sandrine Colard à créer une exposition qui interroge les histoires silencieuses du colonialisme à la lumière du site. Le mot Congoville désigne les traces visibles et invisibles de la colonie, non pas sur le continent africain, mais au cœur de la Belgique actuelle : un bâtiment scolaire, un parc, des mythes ...

Sur la base des discussions du collectif Picha, Filip De Boeck, membre du conseil d’administration de l’association, expose les intentions de la prochaine Biennale. La toxicité sera le thème central de la septième Biennale de Lubumbashi, qui aura lieu en automne 2022. La biennale a été cofondée par l’artiste Sammy Baloji en 2008 sous le nom de « Rencontres Picha », et offre une plateforme publique dynamique aux artistes et acteur.ice.s ...

Based on discussions of the Picha collective, board member Filip De Boeck outlines the intentions for the coming Biennale. Toxicity will be the central theme of the seventh Lubumbashi Biennale, which will take place in the fall of 2022. The biennale has been co-founded by artist Sammy Baloji in 2008 under the name “Rencontres Picha”, and offers a vibrant public platform to local and international artists and cultural actors alike (see Mitter ...

This comprehensive encyclopedia presents African thinkers, concepts and traditions, with a focus on African religious and philosophical practices. It offers a dependable and significant synthesis of African studies that encompasses major trends in the field since the early 1980s. The encyclopedia considers all religious and philosophical systems of Africa, both indigenous and non-indigenous. It also recognizes the determining role of the ...

Companion to the exhibition CONGOVILLE, Middelheim Museum, May 2021 – October 2021 One hundred years after the founding of the École Coloniale Supérieure in Antwerp, the adjacent Middelheim Museum invites Sandrine Colard, researcher and curator, to conceive an exhibition that probes silenced histories of colonialism in a site-specific way. For Colard, the term Congoville encompasses the tangible and intangible urban traces of the colony, not on ...

This comprehensive encyclopedia presents African thinkers, concepts and traditions, with a focus on African religious and philosophical practices. It offers a dependable and significant synthesis of African studies that encompasses major trends in the field since the early 1980s. The encyclopedia considers all religious and philosophical systems of Africa, both indigenous and non-indigenous. It also recognizes the determining role of the ...