Thursday, 27 February 2025, 11:30 am-1 pm

Workshop: Decolonize or Decolonization?

with Nasser Mufti,
in Collaboration with eikones Basel
Costs: museum admission, no booking required, in English

What is the difference between “decolonize,” a verb, and “decolonization,” a noun? What are the histories of these ideas, and what role have they played in the liberation movements of the 20th and 21st centuries? This workshop discusses a range of problems surrounding these categories, and specifically, which artistic genres are privileged by each. The novel and poetry, for example, have long been understood to be the privileged site of anticolonial aesthetics. But how might other forms of artistic expression (say, architecture, or something like a drawing of strings) complicate, contribute, and indeed recast how we understand the problematic of the postcolonial