In and Out of Brussels
Figuring Postcolonial Africa and Europe in the Films of Herman Asselberghs, Sven Augustijnen, Renzo Martens, and Els Opsomer
Our rough guess is there are 35,000 words in this book.
At a pace averaging 250 words per minute, this book will take 2 hours and 20 minutes to read. With a half hour per day, this will take 5 days to read.
How long will it take you?
This book will take an estimated to read at a reading speed averaging words per minute. With 30 minutes per day, this will take to read.
Enter your reading speedYou can take one of our WPM reading speed tests to find your reading speed.
Create a free account to track your reading progress, build your reading list, and set reading goals.
We earn a commission on purchases
Word Count
35,000 words, Guess
Page Count
140 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL29157262M
- ISBN-139789058679192
- OCLC Control Number814373783
- OCLC Control Number843783483
- OCLC Control Numberinoutofbrusselsf0000unse
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2012553987
Classifications
- LCC
Description
This book examines four Brussels-based artistic projects that converge in critically investigating the figuration of Africa in the image economy of the West: Herman Asselberghs's 'Speech Act' (2011), Sven Augustijnen's 'Spectres' (2011), Renzo Martens's 'Episode III - Enjoy Poverty' (2008) and Els Opsomer's 'Building Stories: That Distant Piece of Mine' (2012). While each is a singular film, together they reveal Africa's postcolonial imaginary to be a zone of crisis, situated between humanitarian emergency, financial pillage, and the politics of memory on the one hand, and the fictional - but nonetheless consequential - construction of European identity on the other. Just as dominant neocolonial narratives (which all too often cover over movements for independence and social justice) are critically played out and contested in these works, so too are documentary conventions creatively reinvented by Asselberghs, Augustijnen, Martens, and Opsomer.
Reader Reviews
No reviews yet for this book.
Be the first to share your thoughts!