Black Feminist Art as Diasporic, Archival, and Institutional Practice
Black Feminist Art as Diasporic, Archival, and Institutional Practice
| Datum: | 04.11.2026, 18:00 - 18:49 Uhr |
| Kategorie: | Startseite - Institut, Adr-Fkt-12, Veranstaltung |
| Vortragende: | Prof. Dr. Natasha A. Kelly |
For the first event of the AK Gender in the winter semester 2026/2027, dedicated to the theme “Gender & Culture,” the working group is pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Natasha A. Kelly as its invited speaker. Prof. Dr. Natasha A. Kelly is a communication scholar, sociologist, author, and artist, and currently serves as Professor of Global African Arts at the University of Bayreuth as well as Director of the Iwalewahaus. Through her interdisciplinary work, she brings together academic scholarship, artistic practice, and public engagement, thereby contributing innovative perspectives to the field of African Studies. Her research encompasses a wide range of topics, including Black German history, intersectionality, feminism, and Afrofuturism. In her numerous publications, she critically examines structural racism and questions of cultural representation.
Thema des Vortrags: Black feminist art emerges across geographies, generations, archives, and institutions. Rather than understanding it solely as an aesthetic category, this lecture approaches Black feminist art as a diasporic, archival, and institutional practice: one that creates connections across time and space, activates suppressed or fragmented histories, and intervenes in the structures through which art and knowledge are produced, preserved, and legitimized.Drawing on artistic and cultural-historical positions from the Black diaspora, Natasha A. Kelly explores the intersections of art, memory, and knowledge production. Particular attention is given to the ways in which Black women artists engage with archives, including their gaps, silences, and exclusions, while simultaneously creating alternative genealogies, forms of remembrance, and spaces of self-representation. The lecture also considers the institutional conditions under which Black feminist art becomes visible: in museums, archives, universities, and exhibition spaces. What happens when Black feminist artistic practice is understood not only as an object of representation, but as a method for questioning established narratives, categories, and institutional structures? In this sense, Black feminist art becomes a practice of connection, remembrance, and intervention, opening up new perspectives on art history, curatorial practice, and the production of knowledge.
The lecture, organized in cooperation with the Iwalewahaus Bayreuth, will take place on 4 November 2026 at 6:00 p.m. (c.t.) via Zoom and will be held in English.
Zoom-Meeting:
https://uni-wuerzburg.zoom-x.de/j/67003423266?pwd=Njd4MTdZekZ2SFpWcWgwcVA3YStBQT09
Meeting-ID: 670 0342 3266
Passwort: 33536
