CLARISSE HAHN | Projection “Prisons” | Fondation H (Madagascar) x Kadist
Hors les murs 30 November 2024 - 30 November 2024Address : Fondation H Rue Refotana, Antananarivo Madagascar
Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense is a series of screenings organized as a collective listening session, accompanied by a series of conversations and performances by artists from Madagascar. This program features video works selected from the KADIST Collection to explore the intersection between history-making and history-bearing, identity-building, and collective memory. It has been conceived in connection with and in response to Memoria: récits d’une autre histoire, a group exhibition on view at Fondation H curated by Nadine Hounkpatin and Céline Seror.
Curated by Aude Christel Mgba (curator at Museum de Fundatie, Pays-Bas & advisor for KADIST)
With Bili Bidjocka, Bady Dalloul, Chitra Ganesh, Clarisse Hahn, Gabriella & Silvana Mangano, Vonjiniaina Ratovonirina, Richianny Ratovo, Belly Sid, Guy Woueté
“After gaining independence in the 1960s, many formerly colonized territories had the responsibility to establish what would be the status of the “freed” space. The majority — though not all — inherited the colonial structure, continuing to reinforce nation-building and adopting democracy as the universal value.
The current political climate on the African continent clearly shows that this system has failed to take root effectively. In his song “Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense,” Fela Kuti reminds us of the fact that democracy, at least in what it embodies and carries within its historical background, is a colonial inheritance. Reflecting on both the past and his contemporary period, he predicts that this system will never work for the African continent. He even goes on saying that democracy is a “demo-crisis,” a demonstration of crisis, or a “demo-crazy,” one of pure madness. It’s quite hard to refute this idea when looking at what is happening in the world today.
“Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense” is a program in three parts, evolving between the different states of mind in which the curator imagines a citizen might find themselves while living and experiencing the described context. Drawing from Fela Kuti’s iconic song Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense,the program critically reflects on governance and societal structures within decolonial processes. […]
The second part of the program explores the collective identity, resistance, and the place of the body. Gabriella and Silvana Mangano‘s There is No There examines how political messages can be conveyed through physical actions like protesting or manifesting. The tension between silence and power is echoed in Clarisse Hahn‘s Prisons, which examines the body as a site of resistance, focusing on a hunger strike in Turkish prisons.”
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