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Kursstart The World Turned Upside Down

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The World Turned Upside Down: art and ethics in the rise of the Stone Age South

During the spring semester 2017 the course The World Turned Upside Down: art and ethics in the rise of the Stone Age South initiated by professor Sarat Maharaj will take place at Malmö Art Academy.

The start-up for the project is a reconstruction of the Art History Room (Durban, South Africa) of the Apartheid years. The AH Room was at the University of South Africa, University College, Durban for Blacks of Indian origin. The reconstructed room will serve as the backdrop for all events taking place during the course, which also includes a number of open lectures by lecturers from around the world, covering the different themes of the course: migration, colonialism, cosmic awakening, women in the historical accounts of apartheid and decolonisation of knowledge production.

A group of students: Sebastiao Borges, Simen Godtfredsen, Ellinor Lager, Max Ockborn, Joana Pereira and Joakim Sandqvist has since November been working on the reconstruction of the room. It will be inaugurated Tuesday 31 January at 11.00 and followed by Sarat Maharaj’s introductory lecture at 13.00

Sarat Maharaj - text about the project

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See schedule below for public events:


31.1 11.00
Inauguration of the AAH-room , reconstructed by Sebastiao Borges, Simen Godtfredsen, Ellinor Lager, Max Ockborn, Joana Pereira and Joakim Sandqvist

31.1 13.00
Opening lecture by Professor Sarat Maharaj

3.2 13.00
On the Nature of Mapping lecture by Professor Franco Farinelli

Starting from the mathematical definition of mapping my lecture will be focused on the history of the concept, stressing the relationship between geometry, history of science and fine arts and politics, in the attempt to show the fundamental relevance of mapping in order to understand the nature of modernity – and of the postmodernity too.

10.2 13.00

Artist talk by Ndikhumbule Nqginambi, Cape Town

Ndikhumbule Nqginambi is holding a IASPIS grant as the guest of Malmö Art Academy, and will participate in the project Feb- April

Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi’s dazzling landscapes are restless beings.They seem to rumble with the weight of a charging army, or the resonance of a thunderous sky.They are things in motion, the gures captured within them always moving, departed but not yet arrived, running and tumbling in a vast no man’s land between past and present, dreams and reality, promises and disappointments. As noted by Fay Jackson of Art South Africa, “Ngqinambi successfully makes political comment without propaganda, and conjures spectacle without being histrionic” drawing upon the traditions of both 19th century European Romanticism and 20th century Soviet art to create a style entirely his own, one that resists easy categorization. Both political and personal, critical and introspective, Ngqinambi engages with social contexts and histories in subtle and unusual ways. His love of theatre and lm is apparent in the strong sense of narrative evident in his paintings, and the dramatas incurred by his sweeping, broiling skies, fevered brushstrokes and striking use of colour.


17.2 13.00
A proper name for Fascism: torture, humanism and the challenge of translating Inimba: Lecture by Professor Paul Gilroy

"I will try to read some recent aspects of South African history in relation to familiar developments relating to the transformation of Europe. The resurgence of fascist and ultra-nationalist politics will be of particular concern"

27.2 15.00
Lecture by Professor Thomas Higham

4-6.4 full days
Lecture and seminar by Professor Betty Govinden : THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN – A VIEW FROM THE SOUTH

Against the historical background of slavery, indenture, colonialism and apartheid, the role of literature has been crucial in imagining a new, alternative world in South Africa.

In these series of lectures, the role of Indian Women’s Writings, with particular reference to the contribution of political activists such as Dr Gonam, Phyllis Naidoo and Fatima Meer, will be considered.

A broad critical overview of the literature of protest, of the influence of Gandhi and Passive Resistance in South Africa , and the identity politics of race and gender, will be considered.

The lectures will include auto/biographical input, with narratives related to my grandmother, who came from India as a child labourer, and to studying in one of South Africa’s “tribal colleges” [on Salisbury Island in the seaport town of Durban] in the 1960’s.

20-21.4 full days
Lecture and seminar by Professor Arathi Sriprakash: Decolonising minds? The Global Politics of Knowledge

In this session we explore the active legacies of colonialism and the global hierarchies of knowledge across the sciences and the arts. We ask of our respective fields: what are the possibilities for a pedagogic project to 'decolonise the mind'?