Guy Tillim:
Avenue Patrice Lumumba
Guy Tillim, Apartment building, Avenue Bagamoyo, Beira, Mozambique, 2008
Courtesy Michael Stevenson
Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen
Guy Tillim:
The Nigger Who Dared
Conquer The Sky
Film programme and lecture by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
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23 October 2009 at 18:30
The film Juju Factory invites us to read a dense net of references and allusions, names and phantoms, memories and nightmares. The face of Patrice Lumumba cross-fades beneath the surface.
The lecture is set up as a ‘production room’: a conversation between filmmaker Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda preparing a film production on Lumumba and the public which could play the role of board of producers.
The Future in Ruins:
Reflections on African Modernity
Film programme and lecture by Kobena Mercer
18 September 2009 at 18:30
In what sense does architecture act as the skeleton for a society’s vision of the future? Thinking through aspects of the postcolonial predicament, as inscribed in photography and film, in light of Walter Benjamin’s concept of the ‘ruin,’ the lecture of Kobena Mercer explores changing notions of modernity in the African context.