Ebifananyi
In Luganda, the widest spoken minority language in East African country Uganda, the word for photographs is Ebifananyi. However, ebifananyi does not, contrary to the etymology of the word photographs, relate to light writings. Ebifananyi instead means things that look like something else. Ebifananyi …
2018-11-20AlgemeenProefschrift
Ebifananyi - Mutualities
The fourth overview exhibition in the Ebifananyi project was also the show that accompanied my PhD defence on the 20th of November 2018. The emphasis of the exhibition was on the shared presentations bridging some of the differences between photographs in Uganda and photographs in Western Europe, as …
2018-11-07AlgemeenAndersoortig materiaal
Ebifananyi (bookcircles)
A presentation within the framework of the 'week of the artist book' [wkb] in Groningen in which I tried to respond with the books I made and their content that shows Ugandan past and present realities within the neo-rococo board room of kunstlievend genootschap Pictura.
2018-10-04AlgemeenAndersoortig materiaal
Ebifananyi
An installation, presented as part of the Thessaloniki Photobiennale 2018, reflecting on the earlier Ebifananyi exhibitions at the photo museum in Antwerp, Belgium and The Uganda Museum.
2018-09-25AlgemeenAndersoortig materiaal
Ekifananyi Kya Muteesa
In 1875 explorer Henry Morton Stanley (UK 1841-1904) produced a photograph of Kabaka (King) Muteesa of Buganda (UG, 1838-1884) and his chiefs. Muteesa’s land was positioned on the northern shore of a body of water that we now call Lake Victo-ria, in a country that would later be named after his kingdom. …
2018-09-25AlgemeenAndersoortig materiaal
Art as a catalyst
We are living in an era in which much is expected of the arts. But mostly not of the arts by themselves, but of the arts in conjunction with the outside world, be it other disciplines, or be it people who are not artists themselves. In the project The silence of the bees, we expect something form the …
2018-09-21Taal, Cultuur & KunstenConferentiebijdrage
Ebifananyi
There are significant differences between the words used for ‘pictures captured on light sensitive surfaces with the use of a camera’ in Luganda and in English. Ekifananyi is the Luganda word that is used to signify a photograph, but it does not mean a photograph. The noun “ekifananyi” is derived from …
2018-09-14AlgemeenAndersoortig materiaal
Co-creating the city
This paper addresses the in- and exclusivity of, and of (in-)visibilities in the city for people with physical impairment by drawing on a participatory student research project. Students at the University College Groningen collaborated with students from the Art Academy Minerva and clients at the Noorderbrug, …
2018-08-31AlgemeenConferentiebijdrage
The King has been pictured
For the past decade I have, as an artist/researcher, investigated the uses of photographic pictures in East African country Uganda. The relation between photographic pictures and memory have been well researched and argued. But this is often done from a rather one sided Eurocentric perspective on photographic …
2018-08-29AlgemeenConferentiebijdrage
Ebifananyi - off the record, on the record
Ebifananyi at The Uganda Museum, an exhibition relating to my doctoral research, following up on an earlier exhibition in Antwerp, Belgium and in Kampala part of KLAART18, a ‘public art festival which celebrates public art for and in the city’. The visitors of the show in Antwerp were welcomed with a …
2018-08-01AlgemeenAndersoortig materiaal