ENCOUNTERS WITH HISTORIES OF CONTEMPORARY ART 

 

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SEPTEMBER 18

Introductory Notes: Affected by Encounters and Ignorance


When and where did history hit you? Whose History? How Art? Where to Start? Which Questions?——The First Exhibition of the 21st Century?

  

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SEPTEMBER 25

Histories of Reproduction as History of Contemporary Art

 

What happened .... 101 years ago, in 1924?

What is Surrealism? In 2025?

  

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OCTOBER 02 — FULL DAY (10:00 - 12:00 & 13:00 - 16:00) 

From Afro-Surrealism to Afro-Futurism

Histories of the Future: Loving the Alien 

 

Methodologies and Tools: How to narrate? What to carry on? How to activate and recirculate? How to transpose? How to display? How does history materialise? How does it become tangible? —— Timelines, Maps, Clusters, Constellations, Collage, Assemblage, Storage, Archives, Books, Biographies, Recordings etc.

 

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OCTOBER 23

A Visit to the Louvre 

and a Visit in Dahomey

 

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OCTOBER 30

What happened .... 51 years ago, in 1974? 

Networked through and across Fluxus 

 

 

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NOVEMBER 13 — FULL DAY (10:00 - 12:00 & 13:00 - 16:00) 

The Making of Visual Essays