11.17 FOTO TALK｜在非凡现实主义中“祛”殖民的非洲思想与文化

讲座摘要

“非凡现实主义”与祛殖民化：

全球正义的法律与艺术视角

“Marvellous Realism” Meets Decolonisation: 

Legal and Artistic Perspectives on Global Justice

对于许多人来说，艺术和法律是互为对立的。同样，法律与抗争、法律与革命，尤其是法律与祛殖民化运动之间，通常也难以共享相同的愿景。在这场讲座中，我将探讨艺术如何与法律相互交织——以及当殖民主义和祛殖民化的问题进入其中时，它们如何发生碰撞。在非洲，学者普遍认为国际法是由欧洲中心主义的世界观推动的。这种世界观塑造了非洲大陆，以服务于欧洲资本中心的利益。艺术家通过知识和文化实践颠覆了法律所要求的秩序。艺术家们肯定了一种动态的、多层次的身份——“在运动中的身体”——这一身份交织着神话、记忆和多样性。这种法律与艺术的交汇体现了一种超越殖民和文化边界的非凡现实主义，邀请我们重新思考全球范围内正义的基础。

To many, art and law are anathema to one another. The same is true for law and resistance or law and revolution, and certainly law and decolonisation, concepts that rarely share the same aspirations. In this talk, I will explore some of the ways in which art feeds into law—and vice-versa—and crash into one another when matters of colonialism and decolonisation enter the mix. Across Africa, it is widely accepted that international law was driven by a Eurocentric worldview, shaping the continent in ways that serviced European centres of capital. Subversive in knowledge and praxis, artists upend the order law demands. Artists affirm a dynamic, layered identity—“bodies in motion”—woven through myth, memory, and multiplicity—qualities that resonate with the pursuit of an international law where human dignity is practised rather than bestowed. This confluence of law and art illustrates a marvellous realism that transcends colonial and cultural boundaries, inviting us to rethink the foundations of justice on a global scale.

讲座摘要

“非凡现实主义”与乌贾马社会主义时期的遗产

Marvelous Realism and the Submerged Legacies of the Ujamaa Socialist Era

祛殖民化一直是一个强大的运动，旨在创造正义，挑战知识生产的霸权，并提出关于认识世界的新问题。然而，近期对祛殖民化运动的描述主要受到了“黑人的命也是命”（Black Lives Matter）运动以及美国学术机构中的激进主义的影响。这种以美国为中心的视角，尽管具有重要意义，却常常忽视了自1990年代以来源自非洲及全球南方其他地区的被压抑的——即被沉默或边缘化的——祛殖民化历史、实践和思想。在这篇反思中，我旨在重新审视穆瓦利穆·朱利叶斯·尼雷尔的祛殖民化思想，探讨它们如何与当代的祛殖民化理解相契合，并推测这些思想与艺术创作的相关性。我考察了在社会主义时期，艺术是如何被设想为祛殖民化的媒介——这种设想的影响至今仍在坦桑尼亚的艺术创作、话语和实践中产生回响。这篇反思基于持续的学术与创意工作，试图以“非洲”为视角来观察和解读更广阔的世界。

Decolonization has been a powerful movement aimed at creating justice, challenging the hegemony of knowledge production, and raising new questions about ways of knowing the world. However, recent portrayals of the decolonization movement have largely been shaped by the Black Lives Matter movement and activism within U.S. academic institutions. This U.S.-centric view, while significant, often neglects the submerged—meaning silenced or marginalized—histories, practices, and ideas about decolonization that originated in Africa since the 1990s and other regions of the Global South. In this reflection, I aim to revisit Mwalimu Julius Nyerere's decolonial ideas to explore how they align with contemporary understandings of decolonization and speculate on their relevance to artistic production. I examine how, during the socialist period, art was envisioned as a medium for decolonization—a vision whose effects continue to resonate in Tanzanian artistic production, discourse, and practices today. This reflection builds upon ongoing scholarly and creative work that attempts to use “Africa” as a lens to view and interpret the broader world.

讲座摘要

祛殖民化图像与非洲当代艺术

Decolonising Images in Contemporary African Art

殖民历史及其遗产是非洲当代艺术中的重要主题。艺术家将祛殖民化进程作为重要的思想和视觉资源，同时通过他们的创作表达和实践积极参与其中。在本小组讨论中，我将分享非洲当代艺术中的祛殖民化图像，探讨艺术家如何在不同媒介的作品中处理并解构殖民历史及其持续的影响，表达对社会现实的深刻关切。在日常与非凡的交织中，艺术家通过作品重新想象过去与未来。

Colonial history and its legacy are prominent themes in contemporary African art. Artists draw on the decolonisation process as both a vital intellectual and visual resource, meanwhile engaging actively through their creative expressions and practices. In this panel, I will share images of decolonisation in contemporary art of Africa, exploring how artists across diverse media address and undo the colonial past and its haunting presence, expressing a profound concern for social realities and a commitment to transformation through and of art. In the interplay of the ordinary and the marvellous, artists reimagine the past and future through their works.

讲座摘要

重温黑人文化运动：桑戈尔、塞泽尔和达马斯

Revisiting the Négritude Movement: 

Senghor, Césaire & Damas

本讲座将重新审视黑人文化运动的奠基人——利奥波德·塞达尔·桑戈尔、艾梅·塞萨尔和莱昂·贡特朗·达马斯的生平与作品。讲座将探讨促成黑人文化运动诞生的政治、文化和文学事件，分析该运动的核心理念及其在非洲解放斗争中的重要意义。我还将强调纳尔达尔姐妹对黑人文化运动创意与政治精神传播的贡献。

This talk will revisit and reexamine the lives and works of the founding fathers of the Negritude Movement, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Aimé Césaire and Léon Gontran Damas. It will examine the political, cultural and literary events leading to the creation of the Négritude movement, the central tenets of the organization and its significance in the liberation struggles of Africans. I will also bring to the fore the Nardal sisters’ contributions to the propagation of the creative and political spirit of Negritude. They helped convene the meetings held by the organization and could be regarded as its founding mothers.