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Black Chronicles IV
From 13 April - 31 May, the University of Johannesburg鈥檚 VIAD Research Centre in partnership with Autograph ABP will present Black Chronicles IV. This touring Autograph ABP exhibition and audio-visual installation explores black experiences and presences in 19th-century Britain and the United States, through the prism of studio portraiture.
Many of the images will be shown for the first time in South Africa, including a selection of 200 images reproduced from African American intellectual and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois鈥� iconic "American Negro" exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Another highlight of the exhibition is a dedicated display of large-scale portraits of The African Choir, who toured Britain between 1891-93, and whose members included early black South African activists Charlotte Maxeke, Katie Makanya and Paul Xiniwe. Accompanying these extraordinary images is an immersive 5-channel soundscape created by South African composers Philip Miller and Thuthuka Sibisi, entitled The African Choir 1891 Re-Imagined.
The exhibition offers a rare opportunity for audiences in Johannesburg to engage with a unique exhibition of images and sound, and to acknowledge the human agency of historically marginalised black subjectivities.
From 13 April - 31 May, the University of Johannesburg鈥檚 VIAD Research Centre in partnership with Autograph ABP will present Black Chronicles IV. This touring Autograph ABP exhibition and audio-visual installation explores black experiences and presences in 19th-century Britain and the United States, through the prism of studio portraiture.
Many of the images will be shown for the first time in South Africa, including a selection of 200 images reproduced from African American intellectual and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois鈥� iconic "American Negro" exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Another highlight of the exhibition is a dedicated display of large-scale portraits of The African Choir, who toured Britain between 1891-93, and whose members included early black South African activists Charlotte Maxeke, Katie Makanya and Paul Xiniwe. Accompanying these extraordinary images is an immersive 5-channel soundscape created by South African composers Philip Miller and Thuthuka Sibisi, entitled The African Choir 1891 Re-Imagined.
The exhibition offers a rare opportunity for audiences in Johannesburg to engage with a unique exhibition of images and sound, and to acknowledge the human agency of historically marginalised black subjectivities.
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