ACASA 16th Triennial Symposium on African Art

March 19 – 22, 2014

ROUNDTABLE:
Africa/China 
Conveners: Gemma Rodrigues, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Email grodrigues@arts.ucla.edu; Ruth Simbao, Dept. of Fine Art, Rhodes Univ., Grahamstown, South Africa; Email: rsimbao@gmail.com.

Africa’s relationship with China is often viewed as double-edged and has become a space of contention both in the academy and mainstream discourses. Is it a curse or a cure? Re- or de-colonization? What of new questions of race and racism, migration, and miscegenation? The roundtable explores Africa and China’s evolving relationship as mediated through visual culture, including film, contemporary art, photography, map-making, and political ephemera. We approach this from multiple disciplinary and temporal standpoints, paying particular attention to the historical and multifaceted nature of China’s ongoing ties to Africa, from Ming dynasty trade routes, to nineteenth-century labor migration, to mid-century liberation struggles.
Additional Participants:
Duncan McEachern Yoon, Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Comparative Literature, UCLA; Email: dmyoon@ucla.edu.
Lebogang Rasethaba, Independent filmmaker, Johannesburg, South Africa; Email: unlandedfilms@gmail.com.

Michelle Yun, Curator for Contemporary Art, The Asia Society, Email: myun@asiasociety.org.
Allen Roberts, World Arts and Cultures, UCLA, Email: aroberts@arts.ucla.edu.

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