The Biennale of Contemporary African Art Dak’Art 2018 presents are rich programm of Meetings and Exchanges from Friday 04 to Monday 07, May 2018 including lectures, conferences and workshops with international speakers from the arts, science and politics.

 

ARTS AND KNOWLEDGE

Friday, May 4, 2018

Amphitheater UCAD 2 Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar

 

Opening ceremony

9h30-10h

 

Inaugural Conference

10 am to 11:30

Moderator: Mamadou Diouf, Lecturer / Columbia University

Speaker: Simon Gikandi  : Art and African Thinking

Discussant: Souleymane Bachir Diagne

 

Workshop 1:
Mapping of knowledge and art policies

11h30-13h30

Moderator: Felwine Sarr, Lecturer, LSU

Manthia Diawara: Unleashing identity in contemporary African art

Emily Apter: Regioning Differences: Translation and Critical Practice

Marina Garcés: From knowledge production to the production of ignorance

Mamadou Diouf: To prevent “the boat sinks do.” Senegalese arts after Senghor

 

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ARTS AND STORIES

Saturday, May 5, 2018

Théodore Monod Museum of African Art

1 Place Soweto, BP 206 Dakar

 

Preliminary Conference

9 am to 9:45

Moderator: Alioune Badara Sall, Director of the African Future Institute

Speaker: Salah Hassan: Writing African Modernism: The Case of the Khartoum School (1945 – Present)

Discussant: Mamadou Diouf

 

Workshop 2:
Write the story by exposure

9h45-11h45

Moderator: Massamba Mbaye, Art Critic

Marianne Hultman  : Writing history through exhibitions: Narrative What? Who’s history?

Marisol Rodriguez  : (Refusing to) write history through exhibition-making

Bonaventure Ndikung  : Canine Wisdom for the Barking Dog / The Dog Done Gone Deaf. Exploring The Sonic Cosmologies of Halim El-Dabh

Alya Sebti: The places we are speaking from

 

Pause: 11h45-12h

 

Workshop 3
Creative work as knowledge production

12h-14h

Moderator: Maguèye Kassé, Lecturer, FLSH-UCAD

N’Goné Fall: The Knowledge couriers

Joanna Grabski: Producing Knowledge about Artistic Practice, Artists, and Place in Dakar

Emmanuelle Cherel: ” Deconstructing the time in a bath of fragrant roots”

Mathieu Abonnenc: Towards a pioneering journalism

 

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ARTS AND INSTITUTIONS

Sunday, May 6, 2018

Théodore Monod Museum of African Art

1 Place Soweto, BP 206 Dakar

 

Preliminary Conference

9 am to 9:45

Moderator: Sidy Seck, Art critic

Speaker: Hamady Bocoum: The black Civilizations Museum

Discussant: Raphael Ndiaye

 

Workshop 4
Public Policy and autonomy of cultures

9h45-11h45

Moderator: Adja Mbaye Mariétou, Writer

Ntone Edjabe: Performing Pan africanism

Maureen Murphy: Postcolonial situation in filmmaking

Elizabeth Harney: Returns ethnographic exhibition recalls and the contemporary time

Lionel Manga: The archipelago of acquaintances

Clementine Deliss: Manifesto on the access rights to the colonial collections sequestered in Europe

 

Pause: 11h45-12

 

Workshop 5
Intellectual property and status of the artist

12-1:30 p.m.

Moderator: Nogaye Ndour, Teacher-Researcher / FSJP-UCAD

Aziz Dieng  : Status of the Artist and realities in regional

Aminata Faye Lo  : Involvement of the WAEMU Commission in the development of a legal and regulatory environment for literary and artistic property in the Member States of WAEMU

Cornelius Badji  : Intellectual property and status of the artist in Senegal: Looking for a lawyer

 

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ARTS AND MONEY

Monday, May 7, 2018

Théodore Monod Museum of African Art

1 Place Soweto, BP 206 Dakar

 

Preliminary Conference

9 am to 9:45

Moderator: Ousseynou Wade, Former Secretary General of the Dakar Biennial

Speaker: Adama Sanneh  : Creating Value

Discussant: Simon Njami

 

Workshop 6
Money, lobbying and strategy for the art market in Africa

9h45-11h

Moderator: Kalidou Kassé, Visual Artist

Pierre Taugourdeau  : Plea for an innovative regulating an emerging art market

Jean Philippe Aka  : The explosive growth of the market for contemporary African art is it irreversible? How to take advantage of this new situation?

Sitor Senghor  :  No market without money?

 

Pause: 11h- 11:15

 

Workshop 7
FORWARD / New media promotion of contemporary African art

11h15-13h

Moderator: Abdoulaye Koundoul, Director arts. Ministry of Culture

Alisa LaGamma: The historical challenge of creativity in Africa

Viyé Diba: The breach

Karen Milbourne: Imagining Future Partnerships: Global Platforms for Contemporary African Art and Artists

 

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