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Zetz Museum of Contemporary Art in Africa: Waves of Indigo and Other Stories, "The Concept of the Re-Voyage of the African Sea and the Diaspora"
Indigo waves and other stories. Revisit the concept of the Sea of Africa and the Diaspora
Praise your ability to bury
Our shipwrecks and ruined cities
Praise your water grave
Human skeleton reef
~
Praise your memory skills
Praise your flooded library of stories
Museum of Lost Treasures
Your vast archive of desires
~
Praise your tidal structure
Your migration route
and the roots of the seabed
Craig Santos Perez – excerpt from The Song of Praise in Oceania
Taking the stories and history of the Indian Ocean as a starting point, the group exhibition "The Waves and Other Stories of Indigo" is exhibited. Revisiting the concept of the Sea of Africa and the Diaspora, 13 contemporary artists, historians, filmmakers, musicians, writers and thinkers are brought together to investigate, interpret and elucidate some of the smaller and larger historical, cultural and linguistic connections between Africa and the Asian continent. The exhibition uses the Indian Ocean as a common horizon from which to interpret the history of the movement of Africans (i.e., both Africa and Asia) through the tides of commerce and colonial empires, forced and unforced.
INDIGO WAVES AND OTHER STORIES: RE-NAVIGATING THE AFRASIAN SEA AND NOTIONS OF DIASPORA
praise your capacity to bury
our shipwrecks and ruined cities
praise your watery grave
human reef of bones
~
praise your capacity to remember
your library of drowned stories
museum of lost treasures
your vast archive of desire
~
praise your tidalectics
your migrant routes
and submarine roots
Craig Santos Perez – excerpt from Praise Song for Oceania
Taking the stories and histories of the Indian Ocean as its departure point, the group exhibition Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora brings together 13 contemporary artists, historians, filmmakers, musicians, writers and thinkers to investigate, unpack and shed light on some of the smaller and bigger historical, cultural and linguistic links between the continents of Africa and Asia. The exhibition approaches the Indian Ocean as a communal horizon from which to read Afrasian (that is, belonging to both Africa and Asia) histories of forced and unforced movement through currents of mercantile and colonial empire.
Ziwa Kuu, the Swahili Sea, the African Sea, the Indian Ocean, ratnakara, the Eastern Ocean, the Indian Ocean, or Bahari Hindi are just a few of the names used to describe this body of water known as the oldest continuum in human history. This body of water accounts for 20% of the world's total ocean area and is distributed between the coasts of East Africa, bordering Asia to the north, Australia to the east, and the Southern Ocean to the south. Names, they say, have many meanings, but none seems to encompass, contain, symbolize, or express everything that this body of water represents, speaks of, sings, or calls. It's too complex, too deep, too big, and pregnant with a lot of history that it can't have just one name. To be sure, it is not divided, but connects geography, culture, ethnicity, language, food, sound, wind, water, economy, philosophy, and so on. The ocean is a fluid union, the junction of kinship and regrouping before the allegiance of the nation-state.
Waves and Other Stories of Indigo was co-curated by renowned art historians and curators Natasha Kinvara and Bonavente Sobekin-Ndicon and Michelangelo Cosaro.
Ziwa Kuu, the Swahili Sea, the Afrasian Sea, the Indian Ocean, Ratnakara, Eastern Ocean, Indic Ocean or Bahari Hindi are just a few of the names used to characterise a body of water that has been dubbed the oldest continuum in human history. This water mass covers some 20% of the world’s total oceanic area and spreads between the East African coast, bordering Asia in the north, engulfing Australia in the east and stretching south to the Southern Ocean. There is much in a name,
they say, but no single name seems to have the potential of encompassing, containing, signifying or expressing all that this body of water stands for, tells, sings or invokes. It is too complex, too deep, too vast and pregnant with a plenitude of histories, to carry just one name. What is for certain is that rather than divide, it connects geographies, cultures, peoples, languages, foods, sounds, winds, waters, economies, philosophies and more. The ocean is a fluid joint, a junction of and for affinities and realignments prior to nation-state allegiances.
Indigo Waves and Other Stories is guest curated by renowned art historians and curators Natasha Ginwala and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, with Michelangelo Corsaro.