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- Convenor:
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Boudina McConnachie
(Here Lab at Rhodes University)
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- Discussants:
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Ute Fendler
(University of Bayreuth)
Livio Sansone (Federal University of Bahia)
Dominique Santos (Rhodes)
Fábio Baqueiro Figueiredo (Universidade Federal da Bahia)
Peter Simatei (Moi University)
- Format:
- Panel
- Disciplinary streams:
- Knowledge production and methodologies
Short Abstract
This double panel explores re-membering as knowledge production through sound, archives, storytelling, performance and artistic practice, tracing transoceanic memory lines across Africa, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean to examine how memory, identity and worldmaking are interconnected.
Long Abstract
This double panel approaches re-membering as a question of knowledge production and methodologies, with particular attention to sound, artistic practice, archives, storytelling, performance and transoceanic memory-making.
African processes of re-membering in the sense of Ngugi wa Thiong’o but also in the sense of connecting various memorial practices in Africa with those in the Americas and Asia linked to Africa, will connect a multitude of memory lines. The concept of “prism” will allow to make visible the changing perspectives, versions of re:membering practices and narratives based on transoceanic memory lines. The presentations deal with the question of worldmaking that takes place in the interconnection between media formats (interviews, documentaries, films, clips, literary forms) and narrative genres (orature, performance, installation), and also on “ecstatic spaces” (Böhme, 2017) as mediating places between artistic formats and a space and/or public of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds. The double-panel format allows these diverse contributions to be read alongside one another, foregrounding different methodological approaches to the production, mediation and circulation of knowledge.
The panel works along those memory lines activating archives that might reflect a certain political discourse at a given period and might be hidden or destroyed afterwards. Across the two sessions, the panel therefore places different forms of knowledge production into conversation, including ethnographic and archival research, oral testimony, audiovisual and sonic practice, and embodied artistic methodologies.
In this way, the complexity of re-membering processes become evident and part of the oscillations of larger pictures of processes of memory building.