2023-11-29 | Bernard Akoi-Jackson participating in TRANSFER(S) public program
Our fellow Bernard Akoi-Jackson was participating in Discursive programme at Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) Tamale, Ghana, as part of TRANSFER(S): From Osnabrück to Tamale, a project by Ibrahim Mahama. TRANSFER(S) was co-curated by Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh and Bettina Klein and is under the auspices of Kunsthalle Osnabrück. Bernard Akoi-Jackson performed a performance during the second day of the program.
Event happened November 28 - December 1, 2023.
The research and exhibition project dubbed TRANSFER(S) opened in Germany earlier this year on July 8 with a monumental installation of Ibrahim Mahama’s montaged tapestry of strip-woven textiles, decommissioned jute sacks and batakaris (traditional garments cumulated from the northern region of Ghana) which draped the south-west, south-east, and north-east façades of the now-closed Galeria Kaufhof building in Osnabrück until October 1st, 2023. Through Mahama’s work, the project examines two immanent registers:
1) Osnabrück’s cottage-industrial production of textiles since the late medieval period—specifically linen with its trade and distribution to other parts of Central Europe—and its connection to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and plantation economy.
2) the paradox of the “Peace of Westphalia”—the culmination of two peace treaties signed in the neighbouring cities of Osnabrück and Münster in 1648 which ended the devastating Thirty Years’ War in Europe.
Poster design by Kofi Kankam.
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