The free online lectures are organized by CAMP notes on education, a global network for art history and cultural teaching and learning. CAMP is all about lumbung, a concept of exchange made popular by the Indonesian artist group Ruangrupa in connection with this summer's documenta fifteen. On February 17 from 12 to 1:30 pm, participation in the lectures is possible here via Zoom.
Entitled People's Theater: A Journey Through Experiences of Critical Awareness and Consciousness Raising, Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong will report on the impact of theater workshops on marginalized groups and individuals. The assistant professor of African Literatures and Cultures from Humboldt University in Berlin compares results from Cameroon and Germany. In these, she presents not only the perceptual changes of the workshop participants, but also those of the audience at the theater performances.
In the second part, Paul-Henri Souvenir Assako Assako examines the decolonization process of Cameroonian art and culture. Cameroon was a German colony until 1919, then partly British and partly French until the 1960s. In his lecture From the »Art of Places« to the »Place of Art«: Decolonization of Culture and Development of a Transcultural Dialogue, he explains at the same time the importance of endogenous artistic activity as well as global influences on the now independent Cameroonian society.
