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Tyler Critical Dialogues: Massa Lemu Biopolitical collectivism: critical subjectivities in contemporary African art

    Tyler School of Art and Architecture
    Massa Lemu, Passages for the undocumented (2010-2012)

    Massa Lemu is a Malawian visual artist and writer whose multi-disciplinary artistic practice takes the form of drawing, performance, and multimedia installations that are concerned with the contradictions of migration within globalization and the effects of an immaterial, flexible and mobile capitalism on the post-colonial subject. As a writer, Lemu’s scholarly interests lie in what he calls a biopolitical collectivism in contemporary African art, i.e. a socially engaged, subject-centered, and life-forming collectivist aesthetics. His writing has been published by Third Text, the Stedelijk Studies Journal, artandeducation.net (E-Flux), Center for Contemporary Art Lagos, and Contemporaryand (C&). www.massalemu.com

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    Created By: Tyler School of Art and Architecture
    Sponsors: Painting and Sculpture at Tyler School of Art
    Open To: Public
    Intended Audience: Public
    Type: Lecture

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