Dismantling and Reinventing: Building Alliances through the School of Quilombismo – Features – Education
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 8, 2023
The exhibition project “O Quilombismo: Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies” inaugurates the reopening of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), in Berlin, with the new director and chief curator Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, his team, and many collaborators and artists. Quilombismo, a lived and living philosophy “whose pivotal focal point is the human being, as actor and subject,” was developed by the Afro-Brazilian artist, author, Pan-African activist, and politician Abdias Nascimento and is grounded in the myriad histories, cultures, and strategies of resistance . . .
