The Asian-African Conference held in 1955 in the city of Bandung, Indonesia, can be considered a catalyst of already existing political and cultural affiliations. Stimulated by the Bandung moment, this Asian-African alliance had an anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, and anti-racist rationale. Reanimating the so-called ‘third-way’ political imagination carried by the Bandung spirit, this collective research is driven by a poetics of correspondence, addressing cultural traditions while at the same time revealing translational experiences across Asia, Africa, and their diasporas.

Live roundtables will be held online and in English language every Thursday, bringing together scholars, curators, and artists to explore the political, artistic and cultural resonances of the Bandung Conference.

Thursday, 18 November 2021, 20:00 (CET) 

Vera Mey
Artistic alignment and the expanding geographic horizon of modern Cambodian mural paintings 1950s–1960s

Atreyee Gupta
Vectors of Bandung: The Third World Liberation Front at the University of California, Berkeley

Naeem Mohaiemen
Jamahiriya

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