TY  - BOOK
AU  - Augustijnen, Sven
AU  - Bhimji, Zarina 
AU  - Demos, T. J. 
AU  - Hugo, Pieter
AU  - Martens, Renzo
AU  - Meessen, Vincent
TI  - Return to the Postcolony: : Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art
SN  - 9783943365429
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Berlin; 
PB  - Sternberg Press; 
KW  - Colonialism
KW  - N5300-7418 Visual Arts- History
KW  - Africa.
N2  - In the wake of failed states, growing economic and political inequality, and the ongoing US- and NATO-led wars for resources, security, and economic dominance worldwide, contemporary artists are revisiting former European colonies, considering past injustices as they haunt the living yet remain repressed in European consciousness. With great timeliness, projects by Sven Augustijnen, Vincent Meessen, Zarina Bhimji, Renzo Martens, and Pieter Hugo have emerged during the fiftieth anniversary of independence for many African countries, inspiring a kind of “reverse migration”—a return to the postcolony, which drives an ethico-political as well as aesthetic set of imperatives: to learn to live with ghosts, and to do so more justly
ER  -