"Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten."
"Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten."
"Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten."
dom, 10 sept
|Usine Fagor. Lyon
afropolis2023 Participants
Application for afropolis2023 in Lyon is now over, kindly take note that the tickets being sold is for those already registered who want to purchase tickets for the daily lunch during the festival.
Horario y ubicación
10 sept 2023, 23:50 CEST – 11 sept 2023, 0:00 CEST
Usine Fagor. Lyon, 65 Rue Challemel-Lacour, 69007 Lyon, France
Invitados
Acerca del evento
For this third edition of AFROPOLIS we are primarily concerned with two sides of the same coin; one is the amount of innovation and creativity involved in retreating from the world and metaphorically putting to death what has previously been decreed to be nothing, an empty figure relegated to the outermost fringe of reality. The other is the way these negated subjects - deprived of power or visibility - pushed even further away, to the other side; crafting aesthetics or technologies to prolong their own annihilation. We are going Out Of This World as part of the invited art practices at the 2023 La Biennale de Lyon, bringing together a crop of mind bending international artistes-diviners, designers, technologists, and thinkers for an Afrofuturist adventure that is set against the backdrop of our current existential conditions.
Afropolis is proposing an antidisciplinary co-laboratory, inside a time-based sonic and scenographic installation, a ghostly…