Congoville: Contemporary Artists Tracing Colonial Tracks / Hedendaagse Kunstenaars Bewandelen Koloniale Sporen

by Filip De Boeck, and Nadia Yala Kisukidi

One hundred years after the founding of the École Coloniale Supérieure in Antwerp, the adjacent Middelheim Museum invites Sandrine Colard, researcher and curator, to conceive an exhibition that probes silenced histories of colonialism in a site-specific way. For Colard, the term Congoville encompasses the tangible and intangible urban traces of the colony, not on the African continent but in 21st-century Belgium: a school building, a park, imperial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462702365
• ISBN13: 9789462702363
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 11.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher