When anthropologists, doctors and warlords passed on African masks and ritual objects, skulls and skeletons to European museums, they robbed these objects of their spiritual meaning. The relationship between humans, the spirits of ancestors and nature was declared superstition. How can we rediscover the relationship between humans and spirits?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moderated by: Eva-Maria Bertschy<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Christian Nyampeta\u2019s film Sometimes it was Beautiful<\/em>, the spirits of several postcolonial luminaries, a filmmaker, and a high ranking royal of a former colonial empire talk about the \u201ctraces of a history that is filled with pain\u201d and the \u201cbalance of composition\u201d. The film was, among other places, presented at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In \u201cVisages des Masques\u201d, Herv\u00e9 Youmbi has designed hybrid masks that question the traditional Africanist canon. Though these deviate from the stylistic conventions of the traditional society, these masks are accepted into the ritual context by elders, from where they regularly travel to the contemporary art world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ciraj Rassool is a Professor of History at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town and has written many influential books on Africa’s cultural heritage. He explores how human remains in European museums can be returned and what rituals are used to restore their humanity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Patrick Mudekereza, artistic director of Centre d\u2019Art Waza, travelled with GROUP50:50 to the equatorial forest to visit the nomadic Mbuti people. Their music theatre production tells the story of seven \u00ab\u00a0pygmy skeletons\u00a0\u00bb brought to Geneva by a Swiss doctor in the 1950s, a tale of exhumation and displacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In her current project, the Palermitan anthropologist and filmmaker Caterina Pasqualino focuses on the scandal of the unburied in the Cimitero di Santa Maria dei Rotoli. She takes this as an opportunity to talk to Palermitans from different communities about their funeral rituals and their relationship to the dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo by Joseph Kasau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":922,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiorizoma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Lesson#6 Revisit the Past of Beauty \u2013 <\/em>Christian Nyampeta, Visual Artist, London<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lesson#7 Aller-retour Dans le Monde Rituel \u2013 <\/em>Herv\u00e9 Youmbi, Visual Artist, Douala<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lesson#8 Returning the Dead as Humans and Citizens \u2013 <\/em>Ciraj Rassool, Historian, Cape Town<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lesson#9 A Visit of the Mbuti People \u2013 <\/em>Patrick Mudekereza, Curator, Lubumbashi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lesson#10 The Unburied of the Cimitero Dei Rotoli \u2013 <\/em>Caterina Pasqualino, Anthropologist and Filmmaker, Palermo \/ Paris <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n