Àsìkò Art School

In Contemporary And by CCA Lagos:

With the international Àsìkò Art School, the CCA Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos has over the past four years presented an innovative programme of exhibitions, talks, seminars, workshops and events, reaching out to local and international audiences.

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After two very successful programmes in Lagos, On Independence and The Ambivalence of Promise (2010) and History/Materiality in 2012, the initiative took on an itinerant format to engage Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone Africa. Our west African neighbours Accra, Ghana in 2013, followed by Dakar, Senegal in 2014 were our host before moving southward to Maputo, Mozambique in 2015. In 2016, the programme continues its itinerancy by moving north east to the horn of Africa. This marks the first time the programme will engage with the history and culture of Ethiopia, the only country in Africa that has not been colonised. The capital city Addis Ababa, which serves as the seat of the African Union, seems an appropriate setting to continue our deliberations for the 6th and final edition of Àsìkò in its current format...[more]