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Exploring Visual Cultures - Newsletter #1

Exploring Visual Cultures - Newsletter #1

Dear authors, contributors, supporters and friends of EVC,

Welcome to the first issue of the new EVC - Newsletter!

We would like to start the new year, for which we send you belated best wishes, with this very first issue. In the last few months our community has been growing. With this newsletter we want to keep all friends, colleagues and supporters up to date.
 
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With our best wishes for 2021,
 

Rosa Pfluger and Ernst Wagner, on behalf of the EVC Team

 


Latest News‍

December 18th, 2020: 4th Meeting of the Expert Panel

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On December 18, Expert Panel members met for a final 2020 meeting - virtually. During this fruitful meeting, an excellent exhibition project in Cameroon was presented and the activities planned in 2021...


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February 2021: Opening of the Virtual Exhibition at Museum FĂĽnf Kontinente

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EVC's project partners from Winneba, Ghana, have commented on eight objects which are presented in the Museum FĂĽnf Kontinente in Munich. A virtual exhibition has been created from these contributions,...


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July 15-17, 2021: Conference "Visual Culture and Memory" in Nuremberg

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Interpretational Practices in the Postcolonial Era: Transcultural Perspectives in Cameroon, Germany, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa

 

Hybrid conference from July 15th - July 17th,...


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New Objects‍ on the Website

The Adinkra interpretations for the Sustainable Development Goals

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Since the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development officially came into force on 1st January 2016, several efforts have been put in place to ensure its successful promulgation and realization. Governments are making various efforts to factor these essential goals...


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Red Ghanaian Soil

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The opening of the Ghana Pavilion is a sensation. Ghana is celebrating what only a few countries on the African continent have managed to do so far: to position themselves with their own National Pavilion on one of the main venues of the Biennale. Nevertheless, it becomes clear that the participation...


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Muslim Cupolas on a Christian Church in Germany?

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Some buildings are more than just structures of wood or stone, constructed to shelter people from the weather.  They serve as landmarks, points of orientation or symbols of recognition for a city or even an entire country. But even further, architecture can recall local history as well...


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New Features‍ on the Website

Exhibitions‍

Paul-Henri Souvenir Assako Assako has started a series of exhibitions, related to the project EVC, in Douala in November 2020. This was a wonderful inspiration for us to implement a new exhibition tool for our website. You can already get a first impression here:


Collective Memory - National Memory in Cameroon

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Exhbition curated by Paul-Henri Souvenir ASSAKO ASSAKO

 

What is the meaning of the nation for today’s society and how is it lived out? What are its landmarks, its elements of the collective memory that determine its meaning? What are the challenges...


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LAB‍

With the increasing number of objects in our "depot", this depot becomes more complex. So it's time to use the objects to create thematic series on certain topics. Bea Lundt has started a first attempt on the topic of "Gender" from a European perspective.


Perspectives on Gender

Transcultural Perspectives on ´Gender` between the Global South and the Global North

 

By Bea Lundt

 

 

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This paper is a theoretical reflection of three chapters in the objects database on this website:
Making...

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Exploring Visual Cultures is collaborative project of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with universities, artists and museums around the world, funded by Engagement Global in the context of implementing the objectives of the Global Learning Framework, and the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs.

Contact: info@explore-vc.org