ACTAZE
Contemporary Arts and Post-Colonial Societies
International Symposium, march 31 & april the 1th 2006
Petit Palais, Paris
ACTAZE organised with the support of the Mairie de Paris (DGOM) and IDEAC, the international conference "Contemporary Art and Post-colonial Societies" assembling 25 international lecturers in the Petit Palais of Paris.
The colloquium was supported by Mrs George Pau-Langevin, Déléguée Générale à l'Outre-Mer, and directed by Valérie Morignat, associate Professor at the University Paul Valéry and researcher at the Sorbonne University (IDEAT Laboratory).
A progressive discourse regarding the notion of 'contemporary art' needs to contextualise the position and representation of post-colonial countries. Specifically, when addressing the issue of 'contemporary art' within the international art market.
Do the artists of this countries recognize themselves in the selection criteria of experts and curators? Which aesthetical, social, cultural, political, and economical constraints make themselves felt thru the process of creation? Moreover, what are the implications of this, regarding local and international artistic acknowledgement ? Which promotional strategies of contemporary art and culture are operating in post-colonial countries? and which discourses inform the various forms, and the places of the contemporary creation?
The contemporary art of the Pacific countries and of the African continent seems to be marginalized by the actual mechanisms of artistic recognition in general, and of contemporary art in particular. When their local art markets are fragmented and the definition criteria of contemporaneity are articulated only by the actors of a western art History, this further perpetuates an existing pattern of identification of actual african and oceanian productions.
Consequently, artists are confronted on two levels : existing outside of a western imaginary which stigmatises or retrieves them to freshen up the « Old Europe », whilst nevertheless penetrating an art market which mastery is essentially american. For african and oceanian artists, ethnographical and geographical imputations, as well as culturalistic approaches which restrain their productions, constitute the ambiguous conditions of visibility and acknowledgment.Between the stranglehold of the “global” (globalization and its standards) and the “local” (the colonial heritage of a falsified view of « tradition »), contemporary artists from Africa and Oceania propose an ironic deconstruction of exoticism and attempt a decolonalization of artistic criteria. The critical strength of those art works holds new mirrors to the contemporaneity. Analyzing this process, we claim the emergence of pluralistic art definitions, which have to be accompanied as alternative and original patterns, able to operate a necessary value reversal.
Valérie Morignat, Director
2006 International Conference actazé
DOCUMENTS colloque 2006
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Valérie Morignat [Maitre de conférences, Univ. Paul Valéry]
Jean-Hubert Martin [Directeur general du museum kunst palast]
Chantal Pontbriand [Directrice de la revue Parachute, CA]
Alexis Nouss [Professeur à l'Univ. de Montréal, CA]
Françoise Vergès [Professeur au Goldsmiths College, UK]
Ayoko Mensah [Directrice d'Africultures]
Abdellah Karroum [Curator, MA]
Thierry Dufrêne [Professeur d'histoire de l'art contemporain Univ. Paris X] -
Chloé Maurel [Historienne]
Pauline de Souza [Directrice Diversity Art Forum, UK]
Kevin Murray [Directeur of Craft Victoria, Curator, AU]
Malick N'Diaye [Historien de l'art, Univ. Rennes II]
Bernard Müller [Chargé de conférences à l'EHESS]
Cédric Vincent [chercheur à l'EHESS]
Alain Quemin [Professeur à l'Univ. de Marne-la-Vallée]
Alexandra Loumpet-Galitzine [chercheur à l'Univ. de Yaoudé, CAM]
Valérie Arrault [Maître de conférences à l'Univ. Montpellier III]
Jean-Loup Pivin [Directeur de la Revue Noire]
Safoi Babana-Hampton [A. Professeur Michigan State University, EU]
Christine Eyene [Historienne de l'art, Africultures, UK]
Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi [chercheur à l'EHESS]
Patricia de Bollivier [Enseignante àl'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de La Réunion, RE]
Zahia Rahmani [Chercheur. INHA, écrivain]
Marc Jimenez [Professeur à l'Université de Paris I]
Raymonde Moulin [Directrice de recherches CNRS]
George Pau-Langevin [Déléguée générale DGOM]
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Director of actazé and Project Head:
Valérie Morignat, Ph.D (Sorbonne), Associate Professor.
President of actazé:
Viviane Triby, Assistant Professor.
Marguerite Langiert
Journalist, Communication Head / actazé France.
International Phone Number :
+ 33 6 76 95 45 60 — Téléphone France : 06 76 95 45 60
International to France :
+ 33 4 67 45 25 77 — Téléphone France : 04 67 45 25 77
© Valerie Morignat, 2004-2009 — Associate Professor, Paul Valéry University / Maitre de Conférences, Université Paul Valéry — Cinema, Digital Arts.