VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF AFRICAN MIGRATION IN ART, FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY

Panel discussion with: Aïssatou Mbodj (anthropologist, CNRS Paris), Dominique Malaquais (anthropologist and curator, CNRS Paris), Daniela Swarowsky (ISOE curator, ZMO Berlin)

Moderation: Samuli Schielke (ZMO Berlin)

ISOE researcher Aïssatou Mbodj together with ISOE curator Daniela Swarowsky will present three pieces in the exhibition which touch the topic of visual representation of migration: the photographic series A Long Way Home by Anissa Michalon, Commanderie by Vincent Leroux and Yacine's Stimmen by Charlotte Menin. They will discuss in exchange with the audience the different approaches each of the artists have chosen. Aïssatou Mbodj will talk about how she as a researcher has approached her visual and textual contribution inside the ISOE exhibition. Dominique Malaquais will give a lecture about a different perspective on migration: Discussions of (im)migration concerning the African continent tend to center on movement between Africa and Europe. South-South migration receives significantly less attention. In Malaquais' presentation the focus is on the latter type of movement, as addressed by Congolese multi-media artist Mega Mingiedi. The presentation focuses on an installation that Mingiedi developed in South Africa in 2009, titled Lelo Awa (“Here Now”). A complex, multi-layered project, Lelo Awa considers (among other subjects) the place of African immigrants in present-day Johannesburg.

all photos (c) André Wunstorf