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Eziokwu, Speaking Truths is a bi weekly podcast presented to you by the African Artists’ Foundation is interested in exploring the intersection between art and contemporary African culture and the ways that it can shape self expression in our current moment. Through conversations with artists, curators and other cultural practitioners from various geographies across the African continent and the African diaspora, we unpack different forms of expression and the various ways we can reinterpret, reimagine and understand visual languages across Africa.
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Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
This week on Eziokwu, Speaking Truths we take a critical look at the documentary film ‘White Cube’ by dutch artist Renzo Martens. White Cube, a powerful and provocative dissection of art, class and decolonisation, follows the Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATCP) a plantation workers’ cooperative based on a former Unilever plantation in the Congolese town of Lusanga. They attempt to end the destructive system of monoculture on their lands – by building a gallery on it, the ‘white cube’ that is the title of the film.
We are joined by Teesa Bahana, Mike Mavura, Ukhona Mlandu and Dr Njoki Ngumi. In this first episode of a two part series, we consider complex questions around power, resource extraction and the role that art plays in community.
*SPOILER WARNING - the podcast episode contains spoilers throughout in reference to the documentary. To see the film’s trailer, go to the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_HJ64ytwRE
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