Cette activité est une collaboration entre Sophia et La Bellone. La lecture se déroulera en Anglais, les débats seront traduits en Anglais, Néerlandais et Français.

We will not give you the satisfaction - black perspective on gendered artistic discourses, is organised as a thank you present to Nadine Plateau, for the many years she invested in Sophia.

We will not give you the satisfaction - black perspective on gendered artistic discourses is a postscript on the project WHERE WE’RE AT! Other voices on gender (2014) curated by Christine Eyene at BOZAR (Brussels). Conceived as an illustrated lecture/essay-in-progress, it proposes to revisit the route that has led to her interest in the representation of the black body in art, and gendered expressions, particularly female and queer. Poised between African women’s narratives and the Black British context, from lived experience to theory and art practice, the presentation will address discourses and aesthetic strategies in politics of representation. It will also take a critical stance on the commodification of both the body and some strands of socio-politically oriented art, while seeking out ways to complexify an engagement with gender politics in art through non-object-based practices. Presence, voice, sound, noise will therefore be key features in this presentation.

Christine Eyene is an art historian, critic and curator. She is a Guild Research Fellow in Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire and doctoral student at Birkbeck, University of London. Her areas of research and curatorial practice range from contemporary African and Diaspora arts, Black British arts, gendered art discourses, to non-object-based art practices, notably sound art.

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