The Color Curtain and the Promise of Bandung—A series of roundtables reappraising Asian-African political imagination

21.10.–18.11.2021

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. 

Read more about the program and the speakers

Sponsors

Generous support for The Color Curtain and the Promise of Bandung was provided by a research fellowship awarded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The series of roundtables is organized with additional support from Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule, Frankfurt, and from UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California.