Tag Archives: colonialism

Report Zachary Formwalt interviewed by Sven Lütticken

Posted on 08/11/2012

On the final day of ‘Time, Trade & Travel’ Zachary Formwalt was interviewed by art historian and critic Sven Lütticken. After a brief introduction to Formwalt’s artistic practice and interests, a fragment of his newest video ‘A Projective Geometry’ was screened. The video was also part of the exhibition ‘Time, Trade & Travel’ in SMBA. The film testifies to Formwalt’s investigation of the history of a railway in present-day Ghana. The railway was built in the 19th century by Britain to connect Sekondi to the inland gold mine in Tarkwa as a facility to create a connection with the worldwide market.
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(Nederlands) Extra: William Kentridge’s ‘Black Box’

Posted on 17/10/2012

Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

Review Jelle Bouwhuis – ‘The many ambitions of GEO-graphics’ (Nafas Art Magazine)

Posted on 07/08/2010

The exhibition GEO-graphics. A Map of Art Practices in Africa, Past and Present is the largest part of the Visionary Africa festival in the Bozar Center for Fine Arts in Brussels, held on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the independence of the Democratic Republic of Congo and 16 other African countries. It is also the first stage in a four-year collaboration between the art center and the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren, that characteristic museum of colonial museology that will soon be subjected to reconstruction and expansion.

Click here to read the full review ‘The many ambitions of GEO-graphics’ on the website of  Nafas Art Magazine.