Press Release, May 2021
School of Re-Membering “The Folded Layers”
A talk with Awa Konaté & Aysha Amin
NOTE: This event will be in English.
In this second talk, we want to ask the question of the histories that are folded into the many layers of the bust – histories of Danish colonial violence and the resistance against it.
We ask the questions of how these foldings still are present today and the continuities between past and present forms of coloniality. This relates to the idea of nordic exceptionalism, white innocence and Danish national identity formation. During Afgang 2021 (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art's MFA Graduation Show), School of Re-Membering and Kunsthal Charlottenborg will present three talks to unfold and support relevant criticism based on the bust happening that took place in the fall of 2020 in Copenhagen.
The three talks are:
The White Sculpture (5/5)
The Folded Layers and (12/5)
The Empty Piedestal (19/5)
More info TBA.
Aysha Amin is a Kurdish artist, writer and curator from Gellerup. She is the founder and leader of the site specific and self owed art/culture/architecture platform Andromeda 8220, based in Gellerup, Aarhus. Andromeda is cross-disciplinary, intersectional, curious and collaborative, working from a local-global point of view. Aysha Amins work continuously documents and archives her experiences and surroundings. Focusing on- and tries to understand the relations between the material/immaterial, the individual/the community, the construction and experiences of power structures, time/space/erasure/memories/hauntings, the cognitive mind and the 7 senses. Ayshas work has been shown locally in Aarhus and Copenhagen, during The Venice Biennale in 2018 and DAAD Galerie during The Berlin Bienale 2020.
Awa Konaté is a London and Copenhagen-based Danish-Ivorian independent curator, researcher, and writer. She is the founder of the research platform Culture Art Society (CAS). As a curator, she works with exhibitions, public programmes, and cinema, specialising in African/Black Diasporic visual arts, having worked with the likes of Serpentine Galleries, Barbican, The Danish Film Institute, and others. Her writings have been published in Third Text, Phaidon, Paletten Art Journal, Widewalls Magazine, and more. She is currently leading CAS's curatorial research residency with The Showroom Gallery in London.
Talk: Wednesday the 12th of May, 7-8pm. Facebook event.
Zoom-link: The link will be announced via the Facebook event.
School of Re-Membering is a network in flux consisting of current and former students at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, who want to create educational spaces that recognize and work with the colonial past of the institution. We are critical of the narratives of Eurocentric art history and demand nuances and space for more inclusive and intersectional narratives and want to address the lack of representation among both students and staff at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.