KuK-Tuesdays: Dislocation & Unlearning
It is with great joy that we, the Department of Art History as Cultural History (KuK) of Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy at Technische Universität Berlin, announce the coming session of the KuK- Tuesdays: Dislocation.
Date: March 12th, 2024, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Location: Hybrid Lab, Villa Bell, Marchstraße 8, 10587 Berlin
Colonial past and present continue to impact the way we think, write, learn and create art. The contemporary art world, including artists, curators, museums, art critics, and art historians, builds on categories and geographies shaped by colonial histories. How do address these colonial legacies in the art world? And how to write (his)stories beyond them? Does art offer a way to re-imagine the relationship between center and periphery and to rewrite the categories and geographies of colonial legacies?
This session of “KuK-Tuesdays: Dislocation” discusses how to write, reconstruct and create complex narratives of histories, identities, and communities beyond a Eurocentric perspective. It invites us to think about diverse spaces of narration and experiences across oceans and continents through art, history and memory. Exploring the role categories of the local, the national and the global have played in art and history, the discussion focuses on modes of learning and unlearning: How can artists and art historians challenge existing narratives? How to recover stories of connection and disconnection? What role can art and art history play in the unlearning of colonial geographies, histories and categories?
With:
Prof Dr Monica Juneja
Art Historian, Heidelberg, Germany
Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn
Artist, Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam
The evening will be moderated by Dr Richard Tsogang Fossi, Researcher at the Department of Modern Art History at Technische Universität Berlin.
The series of events KuK-Tuesdays: Dislocation, curated by Diệu Ly Hoàng and Freya Schwachenwald is a continuation of the KuK Tuesdays: Dislocation - Season 1 and 2 curated by Fogha Mc and Jeanne-Ange Wagne in 2022/2023. It aims to provide a space for exchange between the research at our institute, perspectives from different fields of practice, as well as artistic and activist positions.
The event is free of charge and the conversation will be held in English. An informal reception with drinks and snacks will be held at the end of the event.