Fragments of Memory: Artistic Representations of Diaspora Lives

Accès

À propos

The “Fragments of Memory: Artistic Representations of Diaspora Lives” is a project which aims to bring together international scholarship regarding the Historical African Diasporas, with creative art production initiatives from Global Africa. The focus is biographical. The concept of the project is based on creating experimental ways of visually representing the lives of individuals who endured slavery as part of their existence between the 15th and the 19th century. African men, women and children chained in slave ships and taken to different parts of the world left accounts, biographical sketches and testimonies. Historians and scholars around the globe have been working on life trajectories of these individuals, tracking their movements, shifting and creating new identities, cultures, writings or having their name written on papers in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. The project is part of the SHADD_hub where many of the historical sources are stored and displayed in an online database. The “Fragments of Memory” project is also part of the artistic initiative from the UNESCO Slave Route Project: Resistance, Liberty, Heritage. This event will launch the Project website and invite the public for a discussion with the artist, curator and the producers of this Public History initiative.

Organisateur

Bruno R. Véras

Pablo Parra (PunkArt Macumba) was born in Mococa, São Paulo, Brazil. He worked for many years as an Art Director in communication agencies, in parallel with his career as an illustrator, drawing for alternative bands from Brazil and abroad, as well as participating in independent international art events circuits. His illustrations feature strong and contrasting colors. The thick and irregular features are the attempt to merge their punk references with cordel literature. Existential and political themes are commonly found in his works, always expressed in pop and aggressive language. Bruno R. Véras is a digital historian and cultural producer whose work focuses on Global Africa, historical slavery and art-education. His work as a UNESCO consultant for Africa-Brazilian history resulted in museum and art exhibits. He is a documentary filmmaker working on art and performances in Brazil, Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria, Canada and Egypt.