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KISITO ASSANGNI AT WHITECHAPEL GALLERY, LONDON
Dates:
Thu Jan 03, 2013 19:00 - Thu Jan 03, 2013
Location:
LONDON,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
3 JANUARY 2013
7pm
KISITO ASSANGNI: video works
Open screening and public discussion mediated by the curator Gareth Evans.
WHITECHAPEL GALLERY
Zilkha Auditorium
77-82 Whitechapel High St
LONDON E1 7QX
Free admission
Booking essential: film@whitechapelgallery.org
Kisito Assangni was born in Lomé (Togo) and currently lives between London, Paris and Lomé.
His artworks primarily question post-globalisation impact and psychogeography, a concept defined in 1955 by the French writer and situationist Guy Debord.
Moving lucidly between curatorial process, video, photography and drawing, Assangni's practice is underpinned by an acute and persistent awarness of personal responsability for a common identity.
His projects have been shown internationally, including the ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Arnot Art Museum, New York; Musée des Arts Derniers, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow; Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland; Torrance Art Museum, California, USA; Museo ExTeresa Arte Actual, Mexico City among others.
Kisito is the Founder/Curator of Time is Love Screening and [SFIP] Project - Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy.
http://timeisloveshow.blogspot.com
http://sfip-project.blogspot.com
http://www.kisitoassangni.com
7pm
KISITO ASSANGNI: video works
Open screening and public discussion mediated by the curator Gareth Evans.
WHITECHAPEL GALLERY
Zilkha Auditorium
77-82 Whitechapel High St
LONDON E1 7QX
Free admission
Booking essential: film@whitechapelgallery.org
Kisito Assangni was born in Lomé (Togo) and currently lives between London, Paris and Lomé.
His artworks primarily question post-globalisation impact and psychogeography, a concept defined in 1955 by the French writer and situationist Guy Debord.
Moving lucidly between curatorial process, video, photography and drawing, Assangni's practice is underpinned by an acute and persistent awarness of personal responsability for a common identity.
His projects have been shown internationally, including the ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Arnot Art Museum, New York; Musée des Arts Derniers, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow; Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland; Torrance Art Museum, California, USA; Museo ExTeresa Arte Actual, Mexico City among others.
Kisito is the Founder/Curator of Time is Love Screening and [SFIP] Project - Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy.
http://timeisloveshow.blogspot.com
http://sfip-project.blogspot.com
http://www.kisitoassangni.com
Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy at NCCA Museum, Moscow
Dates:
Fri Nov 02, 2012 19:30 - Fri Nov 02, 2012
Location:
Moscow,
Russian Federation
National Centre for Contemporary Arts presents
STILL FIGHTING IGNORANCE & INTELLECTUAL PERFIDY
Video art from Africa
Curated by Kisito Assangni
2 November 2012
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS
123342, 13, Build.2
Zoologicheskaya St
Moscow
Russia
www.ncca.ru
http://sfip-project.blogspot.com
Including
Jude Anogwih | Younes Baba-Ali | Saidou Dicko | Ndoye Douts | Kokou Ekouagou | Mohamed El Baz | Samba Fall | Nicene Kossentini | Kai Lossgott | Michele Magema | Nathalie Mba Bikoro | Johan Thom | Saliou Traoré | Guy Woueté | Ezra Wube
Project [SFIP] is a multi-national exhibition process and a platform for critical thinking, researching and presenting African video art.
The technocultural revolution has democratised cultural and artistic practice through everyday access to new media. At the same time, the pervasive presence of technology in our lives has raised questions around privacy, surveillance and ownership, the dominance of Western media in globalisation, as well as the privilege of access in the developed world. The [SFIP] network is dedicated to the diffusion of new experiences worldwide through film and video. It is unfortunate that contemporary African art remains largely associated with sculpture and painting. Much work remains to be done in adequately researching the creative energy of the continent, especially within the last decade.
This exhibition presents a selection of African video art that stands beyond the clichés that remain associated with the dark continent and the postcolonial image. It seeks to bring viewers closer to idiosyncratic readings of African video art and its thematic concerns which are largely ignored. ‘Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy’ contextualises African video art within a larger cultural framework.
Reflecting an age of inter-cultural migration, [SFIP] presents African video artists who live in Africa, Europe and USA whilst providing a meeting point for knowledge and interest in the relationship between self and society. Most works address issues of alterity, identity, tolerance and social relationships as artists reflexively consider their sense of place and belonging in an increasingly interconnected world.
From experimental video to short film, this show focuses on aesthetic and methodological perspectives of fighting ignorance and intellectual perfidy in contemporary African art. The project tells Africa's story by African new media artists as seen through the lens of the relation between tradition and modernity.
STILL FIGHTING IGNORANCE & INTELLECTUAL PERFIDY at TORRANCE ART MUSEUM
Dates:
Sat Jul 21, 2012 18:00 - Sat Sep 01, 2012
Torrance Art Museum presents
STILL FIGHTING IGNORANCE & INTELLECTUAL PERFIDY
Video art from Africa
Curated by Kisito Assangni
July 21 - September 1, 2012
TORRANCE ART MUSEUM
3320 Civic Center
Torrance, California
90503 USA
www.torranceartmuseum.com
http://sfip-project.blogspot.com
Including
Jude Anogwih | Younes Baba-Ali | Saidou Dicko | Ndoye Douts | Kokou Ekouagou | Mohamed El Baz | Samba Fall | Nicene Kossentini | Kai Lossgott | Michele Magema | Nathalie Mba Bikoro | Johan Thom | Saliou Traoré | Guy Woueté | Ezra Wube
Project [SFIP] is a multi-national exhibition process and a platform for critical thinking, researching and presenting African video art.
The technocultural revolution has democratised cultural and artistic practice through everyday access to new media. At the same time, the pervasive presence of technology in our lives has raised questions around privacy, surveillance and ownership, the dominance of Western media in globalisation, as well as the privilege of access in the developed world. The [SFIP] network is dedicated to the diffusion of new experiences worldwide through film and video. It is unfortunate that contemporary African art remains largely associated with sculpture and painting. Much work remains to be done in adequately researching the creative energy of the continent, especially within the last decade.
This exhibition presents a selection of African video art that stands beyond the clichés that remain associated with the dark continent and the postcolonial image. It seeks to bring viewers closer to idiosyncratic readings of African video art and its thematic concerns which are largely ignored. ‘Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy’ contextualises African video art within a larger cultural framework.
Reflecting an age of inter-cultural migration, [SFIP] presents African video artists who live in Africa, Europe and USA whilst providing a meeting point for knowledge and interest in the relationship between self and society. Most works address issues of alterity, identity, tolerance and social relationships as artists reflexively consider their sense of place and belonging in an increasingly interconnected world.
From experimental video to short film, this show focuses on aesthetic and methodological perspectives of fighting ignorance and intellectual perfidy in contemporary African art. The project tells Africa's story by African new media artists as seen through the lens of the relation between tradition and modernity.
STILL FIGHTING IGNORANCE & INTELLECTUAL PERFIDY
Video art from Africa
Curated by Kisito Assangni
July 21 - September 1, 2012
TORRANCE ART MUSEUM
3320 Civic Center
Torrance, California
90503 USA
www.torranceartmuseum.com
http://sfip-project.blogspot.com
Including
Jude Anogwih | Younes Baba-Ali | Saidou Dicko | Ndoye Douts | Kokou Ekouagou | Mohamed El Baz | Samba Fall | Nicene Kossentini | Kai Lossgott | Michele Magema | Nathalie Mba Bikoro | Johan Thom | Saliou Traoré | Guy Woueté | Ezra Wube
Project [SFIP] is a multi-national exhibition process and a platform for critical thinking, researching and presenting African video art.
The technocultural revolution has democratised cultural and artistic practice through everyday access to new media. At the same time, the pervasive presence of technology in our lives has raised questions around privacy, surveillance and ownership, the dominance of Western media in globalisation, as well as the privilege of access in the developed world. The [SFIP] network is dedicated to the diffusion of new experiences worldwide through film and video. It is unfortunate that contemporary African art remains largely associated with sculpture and painting. Much work remains to be done in adequately researching the creative energy of the continent, especially within the last decade.
This exhibition presents a selection of African video art that stands beyond the clichés that remain associated with the dark continent and the postcolonial image. It seeks to bring viewers closer to idiosyncratic readings of African video art and its thematic concerns which are largely ignored. ‘Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy’ contextualises African video art within a larger cultural framework.
Reflecting an age of inter-cultural migration, [SFIP] presents African video artists who live in Africa, Europe and USA whilst providing a meeting point for knowledge and interest in the relationship between self and society. Most works address issues of alterity, identity, tolerance and social relationships as artists reflexively consider their sense of place and belonging in an increasingly interconnected world.
From experimental video to short film, this show focuses on aesthetic and methodological perspectives of fighting ignorance and intellectual perfidy in contemporary African art. The project tells Africa's story by African new media artists as seen through the lens of the relation between tradition and modernity.
Time is Love.5 | show 10 | Tiwani Contemporary | London
Dates:
Tue Jun 19, 2012 18:30 - Tue Jun 19, 2012
Location:
London,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
TIWANI CONTEMPORARY Presents
Time is Love.5 [show 10]
International video art show
Curated by Kisito Assangni
19 June 2012
18H30: Screening + Q&A with the public
Free admission
TIWANI CONTEMPORARY
16 Little Portland Str
London W1W 8BP
www.tiwani.co.uk
http://timeisloveshow.blogspot.com
Including
Alicja Rogalska (UK) | Alysse Stepanian (USA) | Charlotte Merino (France) | ELASTIC Group (Italy) | Fernando Velasquez (Brazil) | Grace Kim (USA) | Hermelinde Hergenhahn (Netherlands) | Hervé Penhoat (France) | Irina Gabiani (Luxembourg) | Isidora Ficovic (Serbia) | Kokou Ekouagou (Togo) | Larry Caveney & Lizet Benrey (USA) | Laurent Fiévet (France) | Masha Yozefpolsky (Israel) | Michael Chang (Denmark) | Michael Douglas Hawk (Germany) | Nadiah Shazana (Maylasia) | Neven Allanic (France) | Nina Backman (Finland) | Pier Giorgio de Pinto (Switzerland) | Saliou Traoré (Burkina Faso) | Samba Fall (Senegal) | Simone Stoll (Germany) | Tristan Mory (France) | Ulf Kristiansen (Norway) | Wai Kit Lam (Hong Kong) | William Esdale (UK) | Xavier Gautier (France)
The new edition of Time is Love is based on the difficulties experienced by the earthmen to love. Simply love. Being in connection with the Other is not an easy thing in present times. We attend a fold of the individualities, a fainted solidarity and a blatant indifference for the Other. Love is a universal theme, within the reach of each. It comes along with the biggest human sufferings: the refusal, the solitude, the evil to be, the vengeance, the treason, the disappointment, the shame. The loving feelings recover the desert of our biggest troubles as our most beautiful enjoyments. Thirty selected artists venture on the thread of this tricky ambivalence. They deliver us without concession a range of complexities, bitternesses and passions generated by human relationships.
The selection operated by Kisito Assangni (artist and curator) states multiple sufferings, tearings and impossibilities of rapprochement. The presented bodies are in the heart of these individual and collective tightnesses. They are the main vectors passing on the notions of voracious passion, nostalgia and sensual slowness.
If Time is Love.5 raises a dark portrait of the human feelings, lights of hopes live and resist nevertheless. If today the time is synonymic money, Time is Love strives to avert the gaze towards more essential values so that the time can rhyme with that of the love, the gathering and the let go. Love as universal feeling extricates itself here from traditional clichés and from a timeless idealism. It is declined, scrutinized and translated with depth and intensity, just like the complexity of mankind.
Julie Crenn
Time is Love.5 [show 10]
International video art show
Curated by Kisito Assangni
19 June 2012
18H30: Screening + Q&A with the public
Free admission
TIWANI CONTEMPORARY
16 Little Portland Str
London W1W 8BP
www.tiwani.co.uk
http://timeisloveshow.blogspot.com
Including
Alicja Rogalska (UK) | Alysse Stepanian (USA) | Charlotte Merino (France) | ELASTIC Group (Italy) | Fernando Velasquez (Brazil) | Grace Kim (USA) | Hermelinde Hergenhahn (Netherlands) | Hervé Penhoat (France) | Irina Gabiani (Luxembourg) | Isidora Ficovic (Serbia) | Kokou Ekouagou (Togo) | Larry Caveney & Lizet Benrey (USA) | Laurent Fiévet (France) | Masha Yozefpolsky (Israel) | Michael Chang (Denmark) | Michael Douglas Hawk (Germany) | Nadiah Shazana (Maylasia) | Neven Allanic (France) | Nina Backman (Finland) | Pier Giorgio de Pinto (Switzerland) | Saliou Traoré (Burkina Faso) | Samba Fall (Senegal) | Simone Stoll (Germany) | Tristan Mory (France) | Ulf Kristiansen (Norway) | Wai Kit Lam (Hong Kong) | William Esdale (UK) | Xavier Gautier (France)
The new edition of Time is Love is based on the difficulties experienced by the earthmen to love. Simply love. Being in connection with the Other is not an easy thing in present times. We attend a fold of the individualities, a fainted solidarity and a blatant indifference for the Other. Love is a universal theme, within the reach of each. It comes along with the biggest human sufferings: the refusal, the solitude, the evil to be, the vengeance, the treason, the disappointment, the shame. The loving feelings recover the desert of our biggest troubles as our most beautiful enjoyments. Thirty selected artists venture on the thread of this tricky ambivalence. They deliver us without concession a range of complexities, bitternesses and passions generated by human relationships.
The selection operated by Kisito Assangni (artist and curator) states multiple sufferings, tearings and impossibilities of rapprochement. The presented bodies are in the heart of these individual and collective tightnesses. They are the main vectors passing on the notions of voracious passion, nostalgia and sensual slowness.
If Time is Love.5 raises a dark portrait of the human feelings, lights of hopes live and resist nevertheless. If today the time is synonymic money, Time is Love strives to avert the gaze towards more essential values so that the time can rhyme with that of the love, the gathering and the let go. Love as universal feeling extricates itself here from traditional clichés and from a timeless idealism. It is declined, scrutinized and translated with depth and intensity, just like the complexity of mankind.
Julie Crenn
Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy at Lucca Center of Contemporary Art, Italy
Dates:
Wed May 02, 2012 18:00 - Thu Dec 27, 2012
Location:
Lucca,
Italy
Lu.C.C.A.- Lucca Center of Contemporary Art presents
STILL FIGHTING IGNORANCE & INTELLECTUAL PERFIDY
Video art from Africa
Curated by Kisito Assangni
2 - 27 May 2012
Lu.C.C.A.- Lucca Center of Contemporary Art
Via della Fratta, 36
55100 Lucca
Italy
www.luccamuseum.com
http://sfip-project.blogspot.com
Including
Jude Anogwih | Younes Baba-Ali | Saidou Dicko | Ndoye Douts | Kokou Ekouagou | Mohamed El Baz | Samba Fall | Nicene Kossentini | Kai Lossgott | Michele Magema | Nathalie Mba Bikoro | Johan Thom | Saliou Traoré | Guy Woueté | Ezra Wube
Project [SFIP] is a multi-national exhibition process and a platform for critical thinking, researching and presenting African video art.
The technocultural revolution has democratised cultural and artistic practice through everyday access to new media. At the same time, the pervasive presence of technology in our lives has raised questions around privacy, surveillance and ownership, the dominance of Western media in globalisation, as well as the privilege of access in the developed world. The [SFIP] network is dedicated to the diffusion of new experiences worldwide through film and video. It is unfortunate that contemporary African art remains largely associated with sculpture and painting. Much work remains to be done in adequately researching the creative energy of the continent, especially within the last decade.
This exhibition presents a selection of African video art that stands beyond the clichés that remain associated with the dark continent and the postcolonial image. It seeks to bring viewers closer to idiosyncratic readings of African video art and its thematic concerns which are largely ignored. ‘Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy’ contextualises African video art within a larger cultural framework.
Reflecting an age of inter-cultural migration, [SFIP] presents African video artists who live in Africa, Europe and USA whilst providing a meeting point for knowledge and interest in the relationship between self and society. Most works address issues of alterity, identity, tolerance and social relationships as artists reflexively consider their sense of place and belonging in an increasingly interconnected world.
From experimental video to short film, this show focuses on aesthetic and methodological perspectives of fighting ignorance and intellectual perfidy in contemporary African art. The project tells Africa's story by African new media artists as seen through the lens of the relation between tradition and modernity.
