Pinar Yolacan Maria Series
Johannesburg Art Fair
ON INDEPENDENCE AND THE AMBIVALENCE OF PROMISE
08 February - 06 March 2010
On Independence and the Ambivalence of Promise is a year-long programme that celebrates the 50th anniversary of Independence of seventeen African countries including Nigeria. The intellectual and conceptual underpinning of the project questions the limits of postcolonial critical thinking and idea. Furthermore, it considers dreams, realities and possibilities for full independence that have engaged people and communities across language, cultures and regions. The project attempts to engender new methods of reflecting on the economic, cultural and socio-political concerns of the present as well as questioning one's relationship to the lartger totality. This provides a platform on which artists and cultural practitioners can explore news of engaging and articulating the conditions of our contemporaneity.