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Accepted Paper:
Routes of Rebellion
Jesse Weaver Shipley Shipley
(Dartmouth College)
Paper Short Abstract:
This intervention examines the relationship between art and ethnography-archiving in galleries and museums in West Africa. It focuses on how image-making is a mode for reconstituting the past. I am concerned with how in post-revolutionary societies stories of radical change are erased or told.
Paper Abstract:
In November 2023 Nuku Studio’s Center for Photographic Research and Practice in Tamale, Ghana opened the exhibition "Routes of Rebellion," an exhibition of my films and audio-visual media. The works-- many of them collaborative-- explore how revolutionaries transform our perception. The works draw on the aesthetics of anti-imperial cultural and political movements from the 1970s through 2000s, tracing the paths that radical artists, athletes, and thinkers travel in confronting power. I use images and sound to challenge narrative conventions and experiment with storytelling by blending documentary, fiction, music video, and experimental techniques. I will discuss this exhibition as a way to blend the ethnography and aesthetic.