回顾丨An Evening of African and Diasporic Art at NYUSH 上纽大非洲与非裔艺术之夜

克里斯蒂安·尼安佩塔（Christian Nyampeta）有卢旺达背景并成长于荷兰，现居纽约。在纽约期间，尼安佩塔发起了多个项目，并组织展览、放映、表演和出版活动，他将这些活动视为承接集体情感、合作思考和共同行动的载体。他还组建了另外路径学校（非洲集群）（Another Roadmap Africa Cluster）的尼安扎工作组，并共同参加了第十五届卡塞尔文献展。他也是“边境放映室2022—2024”（Boda Boda Lounge）的召集人，这是一个横跨非洲的影像艺术节。他与瓦努莉·卡修（Wanuri Kahiu）合作参加了第14届上海双年展。此外，尼安佩塔还在位于纽约布鲁克林的e-flux放映厅组织了一个非洲影像中心（African Film Institute）。

本次“夜校”展览的主要概念是“思考非洲”。馆内的不同屏幕装置循环播放了克里斯蒂安的影像作品，包括《序言——关于在危险时空中的恋人》、《有一切美好事物而没有悲伤的花园》、《降落在我们之间》、《有时是美的》、《世界之后的文字》等作品。下午五点，为庆祝 “夜校”在上海的开幕，非洲影像中心带来影视作品《一曲爱之歌》在中国的首映。影片从与非洲生活场景相关的先锋作品出发，借用MV的当代形式，探寻非洲未来主义所描绘的、或者是超越了它的声音现象。

在放映《一曲爱之歌》之前，上海交通大学人文学院的施东来老师作为上海中非关系研究网络（CASIN）的核心成员向在场观众介绍了CASIN的基本情况与过往活动，说明了CASIN对ICA本次展览活动的赞助与支持，并鼓励大家多多参与CASIN正在广泛征稿的第一届全球中非写作大赛（延期至10.1截止，详见公众号后续发文）。

（施东来老师向展览观众介绍CASIN）

本次“夜校”展览还包括文本工作间、游击艺术研习、非洲智慧工作坊等一系列活动。它们将在4到6月逐步开展，详情请关注上海纽约大学当代艺术中心的微信公众号“上纽ICA”或用邮件与主办方取得联系：shanghai.ica@nyu.edu。

In the afternoon of the 7th of March，the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at New York University Shanghai hosted the opening of New York-based artist Christian Nyampeta’s exhibition titled École du soir (Night School). The exhibition and the series of related events have been organized by the Director of ICA, Michelle Yeonho Hyun, and her dedicated team, and the China-Africa Shanghai International Network (CASIN) has co-sponsored the event.

Christian Nyampeta (born 1981) is a Dutch artist of Rwandan origin whose practice lies at the intersection of art, design and critical thinking. Nyampeta convenes the Nyanza Working Group of ARAC—Another Roadmap Africa Cluster which participated in documenta fifteen, and he is the convener of Boda Boda Lounge 2022–24, a trans-African film and video art festival. He contributed to the 14th Shanghai Biennale in collaboration with Wanuri Kahiu. In New York, Nyampeta convenes the African Film Institute at e-flux in Brooklyn.

The concept “Thinking Africa” is at the center of the Night School exhibition. The different visual equipment in the ICA space keeps playing Christian’s video works, including Words after the World (2017), Sometimes it Was Beautiful (2018), The Landing between Us (2020), A Flower Garden of All Kinds of Loveliness without Sorrow (2018-2024), A Long Trailer for a Film about Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (2021-2024). At 5 o’clock, to celebrate the opening of École du soir, the African Film Institute presents the Shanghai premiere of A Song About Love, a screening program of music videos. The offering ranges from pioneering works in the genre as it relates to the African lifeworlds, traversing through its contemporary forms, and journeying into sonic cultures described from within and beyond Afrofuturism.

Before the premiere of the program, Dr. Flair Donglai Shi from the School of Humanities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, as a key member of CASIN, introduced the past events hosted by CASIN and explained its support for ICA’s event this time. He also encouraged the audience to consider submitting their works to the The First Global China-Africa Writing Competition run by CASIN (deadline extended to the 1st of October, for more details please check our public account).

（Dr. Flair Donglai Shi is introducing the CASIN）

École du soir at ICA will continue to feature a series of events and activities, including scriptorium workshops, provisional artistic studies, and workshops about African ingenuity, which will run from April to June. For more details and ways to participate, please check out ICA’s public account or contact them via email: shanghai.ica@nyu.edu.

供稿｜施东来Flair

编辑｜袁子龙