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The Africa Institute’s Associate Professor of Theory and Criticism, Elizabeth W. Giorgis will share her insights at a panel on “Unreasonable Collectivity” organized by Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Depot – Kunst on December 14, 2022.

“Unreasonable Collectivity” will discuss how in many oppressive states like Ethiopia, any form of coming together is considered a threat to the system, which has developed endless ways to weaken and dismantle collectivi­ties. Under such conditions, facilitating ways of coming together is crucial to work individually–collectively; it is a response and a form of refusal.

Professor Elizabeth, author of award-winning book, Modernist Art in Ethiopia will contribute to this vital conversation that focuses on the background and entangled activities of Gaze Collective, an artist­-run collective initiated by four Ethiopian artists in February 2020. The collective is formed with an emphasis on informality and temporality, exploring possibilities of coming together as professional and political beings.

The panel will facilitate a discussion with doctoral candidates, Berhanu Ashagrie Deribew, Ph.D. candidate, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Robel Temesgen Bizuayehu, Ph.D. candidate, Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

The session is coordinated by the faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna: Renate Lorenz, Professor of Art and Research, and Anette Baldauf, Professor of Epistemology and Methodology.

Participants can attend the session virtually, click here to view.

 

The Africa Institute’s Associate Professor of Theory and Criticism, Elizabeth W. Giorgis will share her insights at a panel on “Unreasonable Collectivity” organized by Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Depot – Kunst on December 14, 2022.

The Africa Institute’s Associate Professor of Theory and Criticism, Elizabeth W. Giorgis will share her insights at a panel on “Unreasonable Collectivity” organized by Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Depot – Kunst on December 14, 2022.

“Unreasonable Collectivity” will discuss how in many oppressive states like Ethiopia, any form of coming together is considered a threat to the system, which has developed endless ways to weaken and dismantle collectivi­ties. Under such conditions, facilitating ways of coming together is crucial to work individually–collectively; it is a response and a form of refusal.

Professor Elizabeth, author of award-winning book, Modernist Art in Ethiopia will contribute to this vital conversation that focuses on the background and entangled activities of Gaze Collective, an artist­-run collective initiated by four Ethiopian artists in February 2020. The collective is formed with an emphasis on informality and temporality, exploring possibilities of coming together as professional and political beings.

The panel will facilitate a discussion with doctoral candidates, Berhanu Ashagrie Deribew, Ph.D. candidate, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Robel Temesgen Bizuayehu, Ph.D. candidate, Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

The session is coordinated by the faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna: Renate Lorenz, Professor of Art and Research, and Anette Baldauf, Professor of Epistemology and Methodology.

Participants can attend the session virtually, click here to view.

 

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