Minutes of the 24th meeting

Present: Ebenezer Acquah, Juste Constant Onana Amougui, Patrique deGraft-Yankson, Osuanyi Essel, Mary Claire Akinyi Kidenda, Runette Kruger, Jayne Otieno, Nicola Pauli, Christian Römmelt, Avi Sooful, Bernadette Van Haute, Ernst Wagner

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An African-German fashion designer, Rahmée Wetterich working in collaboration with Osuanyi Quaicoo Essel of the University of Education, Winneba, has secured a GIZ-sponsored handloom weaving project meant for youth livelihood empowerment through apprenticeship-based...

"Winding your way along Kromdraai Road, Sun(w)hole (2019) pops in and out of view. From a distance the artwork is recognisably man-made: the top corner juts out from the hillside like a sundial, its silhouette stark against a crisp, winter sky. In summer the rain clouds gather, reaching outward and...

Mary Sibande’s sculpture The Reign (2010) is part of the work series Long Live the Dead Queen (2009 - 2013). Her work is presented at The Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town. The museum is housing a vast and critically engaging collection of historical, modern and contemporary...

Owuso-Ankomah (born 1956) painted this picture as a young man at the age of 22. Since then, his artistic work has been concerned with body and identity, origin and future of the human being. While he created this early work with watercolours, he used a traditional picture composition with foreground-middle...

The contributions to this “Musée Imaginaire” of diaspora artists from Ghana have been written in 2009 for a large-scale publication that was planned to be published in Ghana by the Nubuke Foundation in Accra. The aim was to introduce the art worlds of Ghana to a broad...

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(A) Eye - AI ... and the Future of Visual Culture.

The future of visual art is being significantly impacted by artificial intelligence (AI) in various ways. AI technologies are revolutionizing how artists create, display and interact with art. The integration...

The EVC zine is going to be an experimental and creativity-driven publication and also a platform by / for academics, artists and students. Its target is to approach different topics that are of relevance to EVC and especially Young EVC such as gender, intimacy, and storytelling. It...

Young EVC is an online exchange between students from South Africa and Germany.

Next meeting: May 24, 2024

At our next meeting we will watch the experimental film Routes/Roots: Reimagining The Owl House by Alexandra Knight and discuss it afterwards.

April...