VISU-member Brenda Bikoko will present her guest lecture "Performance art at the intersections with identity" at La Cambre on 14 November, 2022.
Meeting Point is the generic title of the encounters taking place at La Cambre.
Abstract of the lecture:
Brenda Bikoko is a PhD student at the VUB. She investigates the re-appropriation of the colonial photographic archive in contemporary art with an intersectional approach. The artists she focuses on are women who are connected to Europe in one way or another. She is involved in ‘Troubled Archives’, a collective of artists and researchers who critically engages with – colonial – archiving practises, including in relation to contemporary surveillance techniques. For them, it is important to find a place of dignity from which to confront the violence and indifference towards photographs in colonial archives.
After precizing concepts of 'performance art', ‘interesectionality', and ‘identity', Brenda Bikoko will look at four different “cases” where these concepts are at work: the works of Adrian Piper; “Arctic Hysteria” by Pia Arke; performances about violence on women in Latin America; and finally Black Performance in Contemporary Art.
Place
The lecture takes place on 14 November at 6:15 PM at La Cambre, Auditoire Stynen.
More information on the lecture and Meeting Point, here.