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Kendell Geers, AniMystikAktivist : between traditional and the contemporary in African art

Title
Kendell Geers, AniMystikAktivist : between traditional and the contemporary in African art / essays by Jens Hoffmann and Zoë Sara Strother.
Author
Geers, Kendell, 1968-
Publication
  • Brussels : Mercatorfonds, [2018]
  • New Haven : Distributed outside Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg by Yale University Press
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Hoffmann, Jens, 1974-
  • Strother, Z. S.
  • Fundação Sindika Dokolo (Luanda, Angola), sponsoring body.
  • Galerie Didier Claes, sponsoring body.
Description
125 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 31 cm
Summary
South African-born Belgian artist Kendell Geers changed his date of birth to MAY 1968 as a performance, effectively giving birth to himself as a work of art. His artistic practice weaves together African animism, European mysticism, and socio-political activism with humor, irony, and contradiction. He uses his identity as a White African like a key to unlock and critique our understanding and reading of history, art, and language. This book, which focuses on his works created between 1988 and the present, looks at the influence of avant-garde traditions from Dada and Surrealism to Punk, intertwined with the powerful legacy of traditional African art on his work. Spiritually charged, politically poignant, and socially engaged, the work cannot be categorized as either European or African, but is rather a prolonged metaphysical dialogue between cultures, archetypal signs, and sacred symbols. Included are works in a diversity of media, including painting, sculpture, performance, photography, installation, and conceptual art.
Alternative Title
AniMystikAktivist
Subjects
Note
  • "This book has been published in collaboration with Foundation Sindika Dokolo, Luanda, and Galerie Didier Claes, Brussels."--Colophon.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
ProPaganDaDa / Kendell Geers -- The plague is me : the mystery and the mastery of Kendell Geers / Jens Hoffmann -- Stealing fire from heaven / Kendell Geers -- Kendell Geers : or, how to philosophise with a hammer / Zoë Sara Strother -- T.W. (C.V.) / Kendell Geers.
Call Number
Sc+ G 20-12
ISBN
  • 9789462301900
  • 9462301905
  • 9780300233230
  • 030023323X
LCCN
  • 2018939476
  • 99977414234
OCLC
1021037097
Author
Geers, Kendell, 1968- artist, author.
Title
Kendell Geers, AniMystikAktivist : between traditional and the contemporary in African art / essays by Jens Hoffmann and Zoë Sara Strother.
Publisher
Brussels : Mercatorfonds, [2018]
Distributor
New Haven : Distributed outside Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg by Yale University Press
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Note
DIST. BY YALE UNIV. PR. VARIOUS MEDIA. COLOR ILLUSTRATED.
Added Author
Hoffmann, Jens, 1974- author.
Strother, Z. S., author.
Fundação Sindika Dokolo (Luanda, Angola), sponsoring body.
Galerie Didier Claes, sponsoring body.
Other Standard Identifier
99977414234
Research Call Number
Sc+ G 20-12
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