Encounters and the Diasporic Art of Africa: An Interview with Allyson Purpura, Curator of African Art, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois
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African art, museology, diaspora, colonialismAbstract
In this paper, Jasmin Habib interviews Allyson Pur
pura, Curator of African Art at the Krannert Art Museum
about the reinstallation of "Encounters: The Arts of Africa."
In the interview, they discuss how the objects on display have
journeyed across the ocean as well as across epistemological
categories tied to colonialism and the expansion of empire.
The idea of "encounter" lies at the heart of this exhibition: the
sometimes fraught histories of encounters between objects; the
repurposing of tradition-based art into contemporary art
works; and, of course, the politics of display and the encounter
between visitors to the museum and the artworks.
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