Curartorship and artistic creation in non-Western spaces, working forms : CCA Lagos, RAW, Le 18, Inema Arts Center

• Grant number: 23/08981-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: August 01, 2023
• End date: July 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Sérgio da Costa Neves
• Grantee: Antonia Costa de Thuin
• Host Institution: Centro de Engenharia, Modelagem e Ciências Sociais Aplicadas (CECS). Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Santo André , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 22/05923-9 - From the heart of wars to the poetics of plasticity: creation and engagement in artistic thinking in African contexts from the 1980s till nowadays, AP.TEM

Abstract

In La Plus Secrète Mémoire des Hommes, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's book, the creation issue is at stake for African citizens and its diaspora, to create or not, to remain in Africa or to go to Europe. With those book Characters, possible allegories of contemporary identity issues, we can think about curators/creators that operate in the same way, that is, in the ambivalences and renounces possible, knowing that curatorial practices in the African continent and its diaspora evolved to curator-artist practices during the XXIst century. Therefore, some curators think not only about selecting but also about making and other curatorial practices. This project aims to watch and analyze four initiatives that work with curatorial and artistic training in the continent, as well as with the notions of healing and reparation of art after conflicts, CCA Lagos and its Asiko Art School, founded by Bisi Silva; RAW, in Dakar, Senegal, founded by Koyo Kouoh; Le 18, in Marrakech, Morocco, founded by Laila Hadi; and Inema Arts Center, in Kigali, Rwanda, founded by the brothers Emmanuel Nkuranga and Innocent Nkurunziza. The four, in different ways, are concerned with curatorial practices and working with them in their communities, creating residencies, schools, libraries, and sites that allow continuous knowledge production on curatorship all through the continent. (AU)