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On this tour, Victoria centres African and African diaspora modes of knowing to "map" often hidden, but ever-connected global legacies...Victoria Ogoegbunam Okoye is a Lecturer in Black Geographies at the University of Edinburgh. Her research attends to the interdisciplinary and creative spatial practices of Black life to inform geographical notions of place in African and African diaspora contexts. On this tour, Victoria centres African and African diaspora modes of knowing to "map" often hidden, but ever-connected global legacies, produced through enslavement and colonialism and alongside a black liberatory politics of knowing and being. The tour begins with El Anatsui’s TSIATSIA – Searching for Connection , which shrouds the gallery’s facade. Recognising the site-specific politics of the exhibition’s location, Okoye states, “we begin from the extractive human and material production of Old College through slave plantation profits, which forever tether the artist’s place of birth, Ghana, and long-term residence, Nigeria, to Scotland." Considering the collaborative artistic production of El Anatsui’s work, we then view Woman’s Cloth to open a discussion concerning the collaborative, relational politics of African being ( ontology ) and knowing (knowledge production). Finally, with Freedom , we consider the possibilities of liberation in relation to African inventiveness, specifically how African syncretic practices of incorporating new peoples and technologies form part of everyday African ways of life.
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South Bridge,Edinburgh,EH8 9YL,GB, United Kingdom
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