Reframing the encounter

Cecilia Järdemar

Reframing the encounter

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The talk discusses the intercultural artistic research Reframing the encounter. It explores Swedish colonial history by unfolding a hidden trove of historical glass-plate negatives and reels of film, photographed by Swedish missionaries in the Congo DR. These material remains of the missionary project are collected with Congolese collaborators, artist Freddy Tsimba and art historian and writer André Yoka Lyé, with the aim of creating a new decolonial counter-archive.
The missionaries were part of a process whereby they documented the existing culture in the places they settled – then set out to change or even destroy it. We still retain the scattered material remains of this epistemicide in Sweden, and in this project, we explore how intercultural artistic research combined with interactive technologies can intervene by finding new ways of making the material accessible to its communities of origin.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Curiouser & Curiouser: Programme for Konstfack Research Week 2022
Place of Publication	Stockholm
Publisher	Konstfack
Pages	3-3
ISBN (Print)	978-91-85549-51-1
Publication status	Published - 2022
Externally published	Yes
Event	Konstfack Research Week 2022: Curiouser & Curiouser - Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden Duration: 24 Jan 2022 → 28 Jan 2022 https://www.konstfack.se/PageFiles/54561/KRW-2022-program.pdf

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Conference	Konstfack Research Week 2022: Curiouser & Curiouser
Abbreviated title	KRW 2022
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Stockholm
Period	24/01/22 → 28/01/22
Internet address	https://www.konstfack.se/PageFiles/54561/KRW-2022-program.pdf

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