Decolonial Aesthetics I

The publication aims to make suggestions for a 'decolonisation of aesthetics' within an Afro-European framework. The texts (whose authors come from different cultural contexts between Germany, France, Senegal, Benin, Nigeria and Tunesia) do not only refer to heterogenous aesthetic practices understood as subversive and decolonial strategies, but also discuss philosophical questions of a renewed (non-in)dividual humanism. The artistic practices analyzed include artistic installations and ensembles as well as actions in urban and rural space, deceptive manuvres at the borders and their photographic documentation, and many more.

Book brings up the question of the decolonisation of aesthetics in the German context Book offers African perspectives and art practices Interferences of aesthetics with ecological, environmental and geopolitical concerns

Autorentext

Michaela Ott is a Professor of Aesthetic Theory at the HfbK Hamburg. Babacar Mbaye Diop is a Professor of Philosophy at Cheikh-Anta-Diop-University Dakar/Senegal.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Decolonial aesthetics/aesthesis has become a connector across the continents: A conversion with Walter Mignolo.- On Decolonizing Philosophy and the Art.- Humanism from individual to dividual concept.- African art: debates and controversies.- Decolonizing African Aesthetics in a Globalised World: A Way Forward.- Deberlinizing the arts: the art works of Mansour Ciss Kanakassy.- The Notion of Mobility in Barthélémy Toguo's Work.- Fanon's Odyssy: A Cannibalistic Feast.- Art and Life at Ìsàlè-Òyó community: Dividuation beyond the I and We to the atypical ternary others.- Artistic practices in postcolonial context in Benin Republic: cases of Magou Amedée and 'Eclosion Urbaine (1990-2007).- The decolonization of the imaginary and the conquest of the artistic work: towards a decolonial ethico-aesthetics.- Challenge to Reality: Against Appropriation, Decolonization as Deprovincialization, or Some Lessons Taught by Cape Town Punk Rock.