Roundtable Discussion: Resistance and Evasion

Jeannette Ehlers, Whip It Good, 2013, performance commissioned by Art Labour Archives & Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin

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Jeannette Ehlers, Whip It Good, 2013, performance commissioned by Art Labour Archives & Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin

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Jeannette Ehlers
Eddy Firmin
Norman Ajari

Roundtable Discussion: Resistance and Evasion

In partnership with Af-Flux – Biennale transnationale noire

Roundtable Discussion Resistance and Evasion with Jeannette Ehlers, Eddy Firmin and Norman Ajari.

On October 15, 2021, at 1:30 pm, online.

Please note that the discussion will be held in English.

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To move and migrate can mean "to flee," but it can also mean to create, to invent and to explore. In which cases can we designate the art of evasion, displacement and escaping as a form resistance?

OBORO is proud to collaborate with Af-Flux – Biennale transnationale noire, to present Resistance and Evasion. This discussion, with guests artist Jeannette Ehlers, curator Eddy Firmin and Doctor in Philosophy Norman Ajari, will be presented online, on October 15, 2021.

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Jeannette Ehlers

Based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Jeannette Ehlers graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 2006. For years she has created cinematic universes that delve into ethnicity and identity inspired by her own Danish / West Indian background. She challenges and explores the film medium’s ability to communicate in a visually fascinating and engaging language. Her pieces revolve around big questions and difficult issues, such as Denmark's role as a slave nation - part of the Danish cultural heritage, which often gets overlooked in the general historiography.

https://www.jeannetteehlers.dk/

Eddy Firmin

Originally from Guadeloupe, Eddy Firmin graduated from the École supérieure d’art et design Le Havre-Rouen, the Institut régional d’art visuel de la Martinique and has a PhD in Études et pratiques des arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Since 2006 he is leading the Terra Incognita project, an international cycle of artist residencies (Japan, Spain, Zimbabwe, France, Canada). His practice and research question the narrative of art at the foundation of his Caribbean culture, which is an aesthetic structure that sews Africa to the West.

https://www.eddyfirmin.com/

Norman Ajari

Born in 1987, Norman Ajari is a doctor in philosophy, professor at Villanova University in Philadephia and member of the executive office of the Frantz-Fanon Foundation. He is the author of La Dignité ou la mort. Éthique et politique de la race (La Découverte, 2019).