Decolonial Aesthetics I

Michaela Ott is a Professor of Aesthetic Theory at the HfbK Hamburg. Babacar Mbaye Diop is a Professor of Philosophy at Cheikh-Anta-Diop-University Dakar/Senegal.

• Introduction.- Decolonial aesthetics/aesthesis has become a connector across the continents: A conversion with Walter Mignolo.- On Decolonizing Philosophy and the Art.- Humanism – from individual to dividual concept.- African art: debates and controversies.- Decolonizing African Aesthetics in a Globalised World: A Way Forward.- Deberlinizing the arts: the art works of Mansour Ciss Kanakassy.- The Notion of Mobility in Barthélémy Toguo’s Work.- Fanon’s Odyssy: A Cannibalistic Feast.- Art and Life at Ìsàlè̩-Ọ̀yó̩ community: Dividuation beyond the I and We to the atypical ternary others.- Artistic practices in postcolonial context in Benin Republic: cases of Magou Amedée and ‘Eclosion Urbaine (1990-2007).- The decolonization of the imaginary and the conquest of the artistic work: towards a decolonial ethico-aesthetics.- Challenge to Reality: Against Appropriation, Decolonization as Deprovincialization, or Some Lessons Taught by Cape Town Punk Rock.