Name: NEXT FLAG:THE AFRICAN SNIPER READER
Brand: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Price: 45.00 CHF
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NEXT FLAG:THE AFRICAN SNIPER READER

SFr. 45.00

At 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.

The 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.