{"product_id":"next-flag-the-african-sniper-reader-kopie","title":"NEXT FLAG:THE AFRICAN SNIPER READER","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\na {\n    text-decoration: none;\n    color: #464feb;\n}\ntr th, tr td {\n    border: 1px solid #e6e6e6;\n}\ntr th {\n    background-color: #f5f5f5;\n}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the beginning of the twentieth century, the Dadaist and Surrealist movements brought about profound aesthetic revolutions. To describe their strategic approach, the poet Léopold Sédar Senghor coined the notion of the “guerrilla fighters entrenched behind enemy lines” – those who, operating on uncertain terrain, act as an advance guard heralding a new world order. The initiators of NEXT FLAG – an african sniper project for european spaces adopt Senghor’s image of these guerrilla fighters to express their desire for a new artistic and social space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fact that the initiators are Africans is rooted in the concept of historical materialism, as formulated by Karl Marx. According to this idea, those who have benefited from the contradictions of the existing world are unlikely to be the agents of its transformation. NEXT FLAG aims, through an act of post-postcolonial occupation, to present contemporary African art within European exhibition spaces. In doing so, the project seeks to bring together existing contradictions under a new – the next – flag; not as an attempt at reconciliation, but as the creation of a new emotional geography detached from physical realities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eEditors\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFernando Alvim\u003cbr\u003eHeike Munder\u003cbr\u003eUlf Wuggenig\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAuthors\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFernando Alvim\u003cbr\u003eNicolas Bourriaud\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Buren\u003cbr\u003eLoulou Cherinet\u003cbr\u003eKendell Geers\u003cbr\u003eHeike Munder\u003cbr\u003eSimon Njami\u003cbr\u003eOlu Oguibe\u003cbr\u003eCatherine Sullivan\u003cbr\u003eUlf Wuggenig\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eEnglish Edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 978-3-905701-22-7\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePublication Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJuly 2005\u003cbr\u003eHardcover, 170 × 235 mm\u003cbr\u003e184 pages\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations: 90 colour images\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by JRP|Ringier in collaboration with the Institute for Cultural Theory, University of Lüneburg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55883296964993,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0071\/3434\/7315\/files\/eee.jpg?v=1783340648","url":"https:\/\/shop.migrosmuseum.ch\/products\/next-flag-the-african-sniper-reader-kopie","provider":"Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}