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 -