Next flag: The African Sniper Reader
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Next flag : The African Sniper Reader. / Alvim, Fernando (Herausgeber*in); Munder, Heike (Herausgeber*in); Wuggenig, Ulf (Herausgeber*in).
Zürich : JRP Ringier Verlag, 2005. 187 S.Publikation: Bücher und Anthologien › Sammelwerke und Anthologien › Forschung
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Next flag
T2 - The African Sniper Reader
A2 - Alvim, Fernando
A2 - Munder, Heike
A2 - Wuggenig, Ulf
PY - 2005/7
Y1 - 2005/7
N2 - At the beginning of the 20th century, aesthetic revolutions occurred with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. For their strategic actions the poet Léopold Sédar Senghor coined the term “franc-tireurs entrenched behind the enemy”–those who as vanguard start a new world order on unsecured ground. The initiators of “NEXT FLAG–an African sniper project for European spaces” use this image of Senghor’s franc-tireurs in order to express their desire for a new artistic and social space. That the initiators are Africans is due to the Marxist concept of historical materialism. This states that no changes of circumstances can be derived from those who have profited from the contrasts of this world. In an act of post-postcolonial occupation, NEXT FLAG has made it its aim to represent contemporary African art in European exhibition rooms. The project thus makes the attempt to bring together existing contradictions under a new–the next–flag, not in the sense of unity but as the establishment of a new, emotional geography, detached from physical actuality.
AB - At the beginning of the 20th century, aesthetic revolutions occurred with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. For their strategic actions the poet Léopold Sédar Senghor coined the term “franc-tireurs entrenched behind the enemy”–those who as vanguard start a new world order on unsecured ground. The initiators of “NEXT FLAG–an African sniper project for European spaces” use this image of Senghor’s franc-tireurs in order to express their desire for a new artistic and social space. That the initiators are Africans is due to the Marxist concept of historical materialism. This states that no changes of circumstances can be derived from those who have profited from the contrasts of this world. In an act of post-postcolonial occupation, NEXT FLAG has made it its aim to represent contemporary African art in European exhibition rooms. The project thus makes the attempt to bring together existing contradictions under a new–the next–flag, not in the sense of unity but as the establishment of a new, emotional geography, detached from physical actuality.
KW - Science of art
KW - Afrika
KW - Kunst
UR - http://www.gbv.de/dms/bsz/toc/bsz121015483inh.pdf
M3 - Collected editions and anthologies
SN - 3905701219
SN - 978-3-905701-21-0
SN - 978-3-905701-22-7
BT - Next flag
PB - JRP Ringier Verlag
CY - Zürich
ER -