Re-Coding African Fashion and Hairstyles
Screening, Presentations, Performances, and Discussions

The event presents artistic and academic approaches that critically question African fashion and hairstyles as well as the related discourses from a contemporary and historical perspective. With discussions and Q & A from the audience.

Friday, October 18, 2019
16.00–17.30h
Welcome
Mwangi Hutter (artists, Ludwigshafen): Video screening “This Contemplated Self”
Carol Tulloch (Chelsea College of Arts, London): “Back to the Future: Natural Hair in the 21st Century”

18.00–19.30h
Elke Gaugele (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna): “Fashion and Postcolonial Critique”
Noliwe Rooks (Africana Studies & Research Center, Cornell University): “Playing with Race, Battling Aesthetics”

20.00–21.30h
Tamar Clarke-Brown, Isaac Kariuki (artists, London/Nairobi): “CBT & coding for (in)visibility”
Maseho (artist/voice performer, Hamburg), Saliou Cissokho (musician, Hamburg): “It’s a Brand – not just a Continent – Storytelling about textile design made in Africa through the ages”; performance

Concept: Cornelia Lund
More information and abstracts for download:
http://www.fluctuating-images.de/connecting-afro-futures-fashion-x-hair-x-design-events/

Meeting point: Vortragssaal
Kunstgewerbemuseum
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin
https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/kunstgewerbemuseum/home.html

In the context of the exhibition "Connecting Afro Futures. Fashion x Hair x Design" (Kunstgewerbemuseum, 24.08.–01.12.2019)

Supported by the TURN Fund of the Federal Cultural Foundation