Timeless Others: Reframing African Art in China
Lecture by Musquiqui Chihying, organized by Univ.-Prof. Mag. Christian Kravagna, Postcolonial Studies (IKW), as part of The Global Lives of African Art.
How did China establish its first national collection of African art? And what can this collection reveal about China’s contemporary engagements on the African continent? This talk explores an artistic practice that traces the global trajectories of artefacts and rethinks the entangled relationship between Africa and Asia.
Musquiqui Chihying is a visual artist and a filmmaker who resides and works in Taipei and Berlin. His artistic endeavors focus on issues of post- and trans-modernity in the Global South, postcolonial identity, and contemporary technology. He often employs media such as sound, music, and moving images to construct a narrative vocabulary, offering alternative perspectives on the interconnectedness of human condition and ecological environments. Many of his works have explored the special historical circumstances of ethnic and technological exchange between the African, Asian, and Afro-Asian Sea regions.