BEYOND AFROPOLITAN & OTHER LABELS

On the Complexities of Dis-Othering as a Process

This publication is intended as a reader for cultural stakeholders in Europe who are grappling with the
serious challenge of diversifying state-funded cultural institutions in order to better serve the diverse
populations of their constituencies, and in particular, the complex processes of decolonising cultural institutions. It acts as a platform for some of the critical voices involved in this initiative. It is also an honest account of a complicated project on a sensitive subject. Three European institutions1 in Austria, Belgium and Germany came
together over the course of a small, two-year Creative Europe project to question, in particular, ways in which to engage with the African continent and its representation with Afrodescendant artists and communities. (…)

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Published by BOZAR
Edited by Kathleen Louw
Copy-Editing and Proofreading by Duncan Brown
Translation by Mike Goeden Michael Lomax
Texts by Véronique Clette-Gakuba, Sandrine Colard, Loucka Fiagan, Krzysztof Gutfranski, Maria Herold, Wouter Hilliart, Tonica Hunter, Ama Koranteng-Kumi, Marissa Lobo, Kathleen Louw, Chiara Marchini, Naomi Ntakiyica, Johny Pitts, Jonas Leonhard Tinius.