Writer, scholar, and curator Zoé Samudzi explores the aesthetics of memory in the work of Everlyn Nicodemus. Based on her own research into memory, forgetting, and the legacies of colonial violence, she will examine how the artist’s work brings together fragments of history and personal narratives.
Informed by Nicodemus’ seminal work Reference Scroll on Genocide, Massacres and Ethnic Cleansing (2004), Samudzi considers the interpellative relation between the martyred dead and the expressive survivor as twinned witnesses within the ethical and artistic practices that attempt to communicate the traumatic wounds of mass violence.
Bio
Zoé Samudzi is a Provost’s Fellow to Faculty scholar in African American and Africana Studies at The Ohio State University. Holding a PhD in Medical Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco, she is also a Global Blackness Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Johannesburg and a fellow with African Museums and Heritage Restitution Samudzi is an associate editor with Parapraxis Magazine and co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (AK Press, 2018).
This event is organized in partnership with the Curatorial Studies programme at KASK.