The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
of UC Berkeley's Center for New Media Presents:
Contemporary African Photography and Film
Okwui Enwezor, Curator and Dean, Art Institute, SF
Wednesday, May 3, 7:30-9pm: UC Berkeley, 160 Kroeber Hall
All ATC Lectures are free and open to the public.
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Okwui Enwezor's presentation will draw from four works in progress.
Two are books: The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a
State of Permanent Transitions, and Archaeology of the Present: The
Postcolonial Archive, Photography and African Modernity. Two are
exhibition projects: Snap Judgments: Recent Positions in Contemporary
African Photography, and On Governmentality: Techniques and
Technologies of Critique, Dissent, Resistance and Solidarity in
Contemporary Art.
Nigerian-born Okwui Enwezor is a highly respected curator and art
historian and is Dean of Academic Affairs at San Francisco Art
Institute. He has been Visiting Professor in Art History at
University of Pittsburgh, Columbia University, University of Illinois,
and the University of Umea, Sweden. Enwezor was Artistic Director of
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (1998-2002) and the 2nd Johannesburg
Biennale (1996-1997) and is currently Artistic Director of Bienal
Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo in Seville.
He has served on the jury of the Carnegie International, Venice
Biennale; Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum; Foto Press, Barcelona;
Carnegie Prize; International Center for Photography Infinity Awards;
Young Palestinian Artist Award, Ramallah; and the Cairo, Istanbul,
Sharjah, and Shanghai Biennales.
As a writer, critic, and editor, Enwezor is a regular contributor to
exhibition catalogues, anthologies, and journals. He is founder and
editor of the critical art journal Nka: Journal of Contemporary
African Art published by the Africana Study Center, Cornell
University. His writings have appeared in journals, catalogues, books,
and magazines such as: Third Text, Documents, Texte zur Kunst, Grand
Street, Parkett, Artforum, Frieze, Art Journal, Research in African
Literatures, Index on Censorship, Engage, and Atlantica. Among his
books are Reading the Contemporary: African Art, from Theory to the
Marketplace (MIT Press, Cambridge and INIVA, London) and Mega
Exhibitions: Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form (Wilhelm Fink
Verlag, Munich) and the four volume publication of Documenta 11
Platforms: Democracy Unrealized; Experiments with Truth: Transitional
Justice and the Processes of Truth and Reconciliation; Creolite and
Creolization; Under Seige: Four African Cities, Freetown, Johanneburg,
Kinshasa, Lagos (Hatje Cantz, Verlag, Stuttgart).
Enwezor has curated major museum exhibitions such as The Short
Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994,
Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago, and P.S.1 and Museum of Modern Art, New
York; Century City, Tate Modern, London; Mirror's Edge, Bildmuseet,
Umea, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Tramway, Glasgow, Castello di
Rivoli, Torino; In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940-Present,
Guggenheim Museum; Global Conceptualism, Queens Museum, New York,
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, List
Gallery at MIT, Cambridge; David Goldblatt: Fifty One Years, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Barcelona, AXA Gallery, New York, Palais des Beaux
Art, Brussels, Lenbach Haus, Munich, Johannesburg Art Gallery,
Johannesburg, Witte de With, Rotterdam; co-curator of Echigo-Tsumari
Sculpture Biennale in Japan; co-curator of Cinco Continente: Biennale
of Painting, Mexico City; Stan Douglas: Le Detroit, Art Institute of
Chicago.
Enwezor received awards and grants from Prince Claus Fund for Culture
and Development, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation,
International Art Critics Association, and the Peter Norton Curatorial
Award. Enwezor lives in New York and San Francisco.
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ATC Director: Ken Goldberg
ATC Associate Director: Greg Niemeyer
ATC Assistant: Irene Chien
Curated with ATC Advisory Board
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