Konstnärssamtal lördag 12 november kl 13.00
Munish Wadhia, konstnär och Mmabatho Thobejane, oberoende curator och forskare.

Thinking through artistic practice in relation to Sylvia Winter’s essay Rethinking ”Aesthetics”: notes towards a deciphering practice.

Språk: Engelska
Plats: Galleri Väst, plan 2
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In her 1992 text ”Rethinking ”Aesthetics”: Notes Towards a Deciphering Practice”, Wynter proposes that aesthetics function according to certains rules and principles, which also ”govern the locking in, at the level of empirical reality, of … ”captive population” into the ”high-risk areas” of the First World’s (the ”developed world’s”) inner cities [and] the locking in of those of the shantytown/favela poverty archipelagos of the ”underdeveloped world…” This posits that beyond its visuality, the aesthetic, also thought within the realm of visual art, acts and has material effects on our lives and wider social organisation. In this conversation Munish Wadhia and Mmabatho Thobejane talk and think artistic practice, as well as Wadhia’s current exhibition, INVISIBLE SEAMS, at Konstakademien, through these sentiments and others held in the writings of Sylvia Wynter.

Sylvia Wynter

Sylvia Wynter (b.1928) is a Caribbean thinker and scholar. She is a playwright, novelist, public intellectual and celebrated scholar of Black Studies and the colonial and postcolonial condition.  Wynter’s central themes include the sociogeny of Fanon and the secularisation of humanism as a formative world event – from which she traces the rise of Europe out of the “epochal redescription” of the human by Renaissance humanists. Her textual contributions are underlined by an anticolonial ethos that explores and attempts a way out of the figure ’Man’ (characterised by the ‘western and westernised global middle classes), which overrepresents itself as if it were the human. Read more about her here: https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/wynter-sylvia/.