Colloquium in Visual Culture with Dr. Ikem Stanley Okoye
Dr. Ikem Stanley Okoye, associate professor and associate chair of art history at University of Delaware, presents "Captive Audience."
This talk will explore the deployment of art as an instrument of fear and terror in the 19th-century era of transatlantic slavery. "Art" and "Slavery" may seem like uncomfortable bedfellows. One typically exists in the sanitized and civilized worlds of high culture, the other engages in the arena of something rather abject. This talk nevertheless brings them together in an exploration of the depiction of captivity in southern Nigerian art, especially through the appearance of states of captivity in a specific group of southern Nigerian works. Through these objects and a construction for them of an art history of their production and reception in the light of a fuller understanding of local history, Okoye will explore what they tell us about how different "classes" of Africans understood and represented the idea of slavery.
We encourage everyone who is on campus to join us for this in-person talk in Old Library 224. Please wear a mask.
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