The talk will lay out a renewed perspective on "Tendances et Confrontations" (Tendencies and Confrontations), the contemporary art exhibition staged on the occasion of the “Premier Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres” in Dakar 1966. The methodology and aim of the talk are to reassemble and literally review "Tendances et Confronations"’ globally dispersed visual and textual remnants, so as to critically expand and diversify the account of this pivotal exhibition as regards midcentury Afro-diasporic modern practices and related criticism. By drawing on hitherto partly unpublished archival material, including location photography, artists’ writings and recollections as well as artworks, Horn revisits African-descended artistic tendencies or trends and positions from the early period of Independences across African nation states that have been heretofore eclipsed. 

Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen des von Ferdinand de Jong geleiteteten Kolloquiums zur Kunst Afrikas statt.

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