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✨✨✨✨1922 Revisited: Live Arts Program in 20 pictures! ✨✨✨✨ Including from: Openings and Meanderings: Supplications for More Accessible Futures by @benjoonam in the stead of @jeliliatiku The Dash by @wuraogunji and @ruby_onyinyechi_draws ESCAPE THE BOXES by @wilfriednakeu and @zorasnake Waves of Ash: Navigating Liminal Waters and the Unfinished Archive (Screening and Panel) with @astoldbytsige @tsedaye @jermay.michael.gabriel_studio and @justinrandolphthompson Kayeyei: Archive embodied by @vickolors with @benjoonam Waves of Ash by @tsedaye and @jermay.michael.gabriel_studio Untitled: Flaggings IN MEMORIAM in the BLUES on some CUES and when WAX ain’t so LOST (a sketchy score for some processional gestures and an eventual celebratory discussion) by @benjoonam The closing reception with the Gold-in-the-Lion award ceremony with @vickolors and @benjoonam And much more! Presented by @thirdspaceartfoundation In collaboration with @ecc_italy and @aavf Program Curator: @janinesytsma Curatorial Producer: @lehuntnouveau Additional Team Members: @jillwein @k.a.y.michelle @delaneyrumsey @liluhlise @boluikuemonisan Program Partners: @ccalagos @theafricacenter @NEWMEDIA @fca_ghana @uark.arthistory @uarkart 📷: @francescabottazzin_ph @lordkubolsstudio @kwamewrite @chrisbaiden__ Follow for more reflections on 1922 Revisited and announcements about future programs Additional information on the foundation and programs → www.thirdspaceartfoundation.org #1922Revisited #VeniceBiennale taken in Venice, Italy by @thirdspaceartfoundation
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A big thank you to our incredible partners, who helped bring 1922 Revisited: Live Arts Program to Venice for the opening week of the Biennale!   @theafricacenter @aavforum @ccalagos @ecc_italy @fca_ghana @newmedia @uarkart @uark.arthistory   📷: @francescabottazzin_ph @lordkubolsstudio   Follow for more reflections on 1922 Revisited and announcements about future programs  Additional information on the foundation and programs  → www.thirdspaceartfoundation.org taken in Giardini di Marinaressa by @thirdspaceartfoundation
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A massive thanks to the 1922 Revisited Team, who helped bring this live arts program to fruition over the last year. This includes: • Curatorial Producer, Cynthia Post Hunt (@lehuntnouveau) • Venice Logistics Coordinator, Jill Weinreich (@jillwein) • Photographers and Videographers, Bolu Erza Ikuemonisan (@lordkubolsstudio), Francesca Bottazzin (@francescabottazzin_ph), and Nicola Patron, with additional contributions by Chris Baiden (@chrisbaiden__ )and Kwame Aidoo (@kwamewrite) • Program Assistants, Delaney Rumsey (@delaneyrumsey), Michelle Kamanga (@k.a.y.michelle), and Elise Boulanger (@liluhlise) • Many Performance Volunteers from @blaxtarlines and @uarkart • Additional support from @ecc_italy, @uarkart, @newmedia, and @aavforum The team worked tirelessly behind the scenes, while also embracing the moments of exchange, experimentation, and joy that emerged through the program. Follow for more reflections on 1922 Revisited and announcements about future programs Team Biographies → www.thirdspaceartfoundation.org taken in Venice, Italy by @thirdspaceartfoundation
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1922 Revisited: Live Arts Program Untitled: Flaggings IN MEMORIAM in the BLUES on some CUES and when WAX ain’t so LOST (a sketchy score for some processional gestures and an eventual celebratory discussion) Bernard Akoi-Jackson Saturday, May 9 The work unfolds as a series of performative interventions manifest as processional gestures, fictive liturgical invocations, leading eventually to a day of collective re-membering (a gathering). These actions hinge tangentially on observations made from the contemporary public sphere, but are also somehow inspired by visual, textual, and gestural vocabularies culled from a variety of sources. Some of the registers may be recognized as codified vestiges from antiquity, whilst others also emerge spontaneously from present experience(s). The entire experience comprises the employment of strategies of communal/participatory activation of shared public and private spaces. The interventions present over three seasons or sessions: a libation-[al] season involves the pseudo-ritual preparation and cleansing of sites identified and designated for the hoisting of flags and standards; a habit-[ual] season refers to the actual hoisting of flags and indigo-dyed standards at the designated sites; an agyina[-al] season where a collective remembering is acknowledged through discussion and the invocation of an almost eucharistic finale. Presented by @thirdspaceartfoundation In collaboration with @ecc_italy and @aavf Program Curator: @janinesytsma Curatorial Producer: @lehuntnouveau Program Partners: @fca_ghana @NEWMEDIA @uarkart @uark.arthistory @ccalagos @theafricacenter Venice Biennale | May 5–9 📷: @francescabottazzin_ph and @kwamewrite Follow for more reflections on 1922 Revisited and announcements about future programs Additional information on the foundation and programs → www.thirdspaceartfoundation.org #1922Revisited #VeniceBiennale @benjoonam @blaxtarlines taken in Giardini di Marinaressa by @thirdspaceartfoundation
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1922 Revisited: Live Arts Program Waves of Ash Tsedaye Makonnen and Jermay Michael Gabriel Thursday, May 7 Waves of Ash links Tsedaye Makonnen’s and Jermay Michael Gabriel’s artistic practices, migration, the archive of memory, and the deviation of Western epistemology. Their work takes the form of an installation composed of burned wood and textiles. Engaged in the collection of objects such as pieces of wood found in the lagoon and presented in the form of a conical structure, the act of burning, understood as both destruction and transformation, raises a fundamental question for Western epistemology: to what extent are we willing to accept history as it is transmitted to us, without exercising a critical gaze? Tsedaye’s blue textiles bring the discourse of the lagoon/sea back to the center as a liminal space of passage and stratified memory: a site where the Mediterranean and the Atlantic symbolically converge, evoking the history of Black, African, and Afro-descendant peoples, marked by migration, forced crossings, and suppressed narratives. The work ultimately converges on a single question: should history be destroyed or preserved? Or rather, should it be approached from a critical perspective, deconstructed, and rewritten from its margins? Presented by @thirdspaceartfoundation In collaboration with @ecc_italy and @aavf Program Curator: @janinesytsma Curatorial Producer: @lehuntnouveau Program Partners: @fca_ghana @NEWMEDIA @uarkart @uark.arthistory @ccalagos @theafricacenter Venice Biennale | May 5–9 📷: @francescabottazzin_ph and @lordkubolsstudio Follow for more reflections on 1922 Revisited and announcements about future programs Additional information on the foundation and programs → www.thirdspaceartfoundation.org #1922Revisited #VeniceBiennale @tsedaye @jermay.michael.gabriel_studio taken in Giardini di Marinaressa by @thirdspaceartfoundation
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YOUR PERSPECTIVE, YOUR EXPERIENCE. AAVF 2026 THROUGH YOUR EYES. Did you photograph the African Art in Venice Forum 2026? Some of the most meaningful images are often the ones taken by the people who experienced the conversations with us. The unexpected angles, fleeting moments, encounters, and details we may have missed. If you captured photos or videos during this year’s Forum, we’d love to see them. Please send your files in the highest resolution possible via WeTransfer (or any file-sharing platform), together with the credit name you’d like us to use. Selected images may be featured across our social media, website, and future promotional materials, always with full credit. Help us tell the story of this edition through the many perspectives that made it possible. info@aavforum.com Photo credit: @lordkubolsstudio taken in Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal - Venice by @thirdspaceartfoundation
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1922 Revisited: Live Arts Program Presented by @thirdspaceartfoundation In collaboration with @ecc_italy and @aavf Program Curator: @janinesytsma Curatorial Producer: @lehuntnouveau Program partners: @fca_ghana @NEWMEDIA @uarkart @uark.arthistory @ccalagos @theafricacenter Venice Biennale | May 5–9 Thursday, May 7 Kayeyei: Archive embodied Victoria-Idongesit Udondian with Bernard Akoi-Jackson and the debut of Edikan Lo Verde Kayeyei: Archive embodied is a durational performance in which bodies become living repositories of history, labor, and global circulation. Performers continuously layer secondhand garments onto themselves, inspecting, tagging, and wearing each piece as if cataloguing an archive. As the layers accumulate, movement becomes restricted, identities obscured, and the body strained under the weight of material histories embedded in the clothes. 📷: @francescabottazzin_ph Follow for more reflections on 1922 Revisited and announcements about future programs Additional information on the foundation and programs → www.thirdspaceartfoundation.org #1922Revisited #VeniceBiennale @vickolors @benjoonam taken in Giardini di Marinaressa by @thirdspaceartfoundation
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1922 Revisited: Live Arts Program Presented by @thirdspaceartfoundation In collaboration with @aavf and @ecc_italy Program Curator: @janinesytsma Curatorial Producer: @lehuntnouveau Program partners: @fca_ghana @NEWMEDIA @uarkart @uark.arthistory @ccalagos @theafricacenter Venice Biennale | May 5–9 Wednesday, May 6 ESCAPE THE BOXES Zora Snake and Wilfried Nakeu Zora Snake and Wilfried Nakeu draw on the subversive narrative of 1922 Revisited to propose a performative trio involving a visual artist, a choreographer, and audience participation within a transformed space, where silence awakens the stories obscured by the hierarchical display of artworks. The performative act reimagines a reclaiming of original memories that have been stripped of their authentic function. For the artists this becomes a way to recontextualize the sacredness of works connected to the living, in relation to perspectives of repair and healing from the “fragments of history.” 📷: @lordkubolsstudio Follow for more reflections on 1922 Revisited and announcements about future programs Additional information on the foundation and programs → www.thirdspaceartfoundation.org #1922revisited #VeniceBiennale @zorasnake @wilfriednakeu taken in Venice, Italy by @thirdspaceartfoundation
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1922 Revisited: Live Arts Program Presented by @thirdspaceartfoundation In collaboration with @aavf and @ecc_italy Program Curator: @janinesytsma Curatorial Producer: @lehuntnouveau Program partners: @fca_ghana @NEWMEDIA @uarkart @uark.arthistory @ccalagos @theafricacenter Venice Biennale | May 5–9 Wednesday, May 6 The Dash Wura-Natasha Ogunji and ruby onyinyechi amanze The Dash is a performance of two runners who race in slow motion for exactly one hour. The performance may be staged within an interior or exterior space: the fixed space of a room; an open plaza; tight city corridors; or from a start line to the finish. The spectators play an important role in this staged competition. As vocal timekeepers, they collectively signal the start time, the half-way mark, and crossing of the finish line. In their embodiment of restraint and reverberation, collectivity and calm, the performers incorporate facial expressions, hand signals and other gestures as critical choreography and necessary glitch. This movement-language references and riffs from the archive and research of the African sculptures of the 1922 Venice Biennale; track and field competitions; and the languages of drawing shared by amanze and Ogunji. The title of the performance–with its multiple meanings–offers an additional layer of poetic possibility to this endeavor. A dash is a quick run, a punctuation mark, and in Nigeria, a gift, or a bribe. Turning to the grammatical dash, the race could be conceptualized as break or interruption. Inviting separation from the usual rushing of time, the performance might also be read as the belaboured writing of a long run-on sentence. 📷: @francescabottazzin_ph Follow @thirdspaceartfoundation for more reflections on 1922 Revisited and announcements about future programs Additional information on the foundation and programs → www.thirdspaceartfoundation.org #1922revisited #venicebiennale @wuraogunji @ruby_onyinyechi_draws taken in Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal - Venice by @thirdspaceartfoundation
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1922 Revisited: Live Arts Program Presented by @thirdspaceartfoundation In collaboration with @aavf and @ecc_italy Program Curator: @janinesytsma Curatorial Producer: @lehuntnouveau Program partners: @fca_ghana @NEWMEDIA @uarkart @uark.arthistory @ccalagos @theafricacenter Venice Biennale | May 5–9 Wednesday, May 6 Screening and Panel Discussion Waves of Ash: Navigating Liminal Waters and the Unfinished Archive Tsige Tafesse moderates a conversation with Tsedaye Makonnen and Jermay Michael Gabriel Cappellin on Waves of Ash. Together they consider burning as both destruction and transformation, and what it means to reread transmitted history through a critical gaze across layered memory and forced crossings. 📷: @francescabottazzin_ph @lordkubolsstudio Follow @thirdspaceartfoundation for more reflections on 1922 Revisited and announcements about future programs Additional information on the foundation and programs → www.thirdspaceartfoundation.org #1922revisited #venicebiennale taken in Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal - Venice by @thirdspaceartfoundation
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1922 Revisited: Live Arts Program Presented by @thirdspaceartfoundation In collaboration with @aavf and @ecc_italy Program Curator: @janinesytsma Curatorial Producer: @lehuntnouveau Program partners: @fca_ghana @NEWMEDIA @uarkart @uark.arthistory @ccalagos @theafricacenter Venice Biennale | May 5–9 Tuesday, May 5 Openings and Meanderings: Supplications for More Accessible Futures Bernard-Akoi Jackson in the stead of Jelili Atiku 📷: @francescabottazzin_ph @lordkubolsstudio Follow @thirdspaceartfoundation for more reflections on 1922 Revisited and announcements about future programs Additional information on the foundation and programs → www.thirdspaceartfoundation.org #1922revisited #venicebiennale @benjoonam @blaxtarlines @janinesytsma taken in Venice, Italy by @thirdspaceartfoundation
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A few shots from the illuminating panel, Traditions Today: Performing and Processing Toward a Holistic History at the African Art in Venice Forum on Tuesday! @aavf @ebuhlanti_republik @homannla @amapleleafonthewind @wuraogunji @ruby_onyinyechi_draws @benjoonam Evoking In Minor Keys’s considerations of “procession,” what does it mean to make and innovate so-called “traditional” art practices, like West African urban masquerades, in a contemporary environment? How do performance artists allow us to empathize and embody experiences of epistemic repair? Considered together, masquerade and performance art practices offer us paths for seeing how “classical” and “contemporary” art are not separate realms but can be considered part of a continuously evolving field. Presented by African Art Dialogues with the National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Moderator:Khanyisile Mbongwa, Curator of Art in the Public Realm at Amos Rex - curatorial theorist, sociologist, and Sangoma (ancestral-indigenous healer), (South Africa) In conversation with: Hervé Youmbi, New African Masquerades artist/curator (Cameroon) *Amanda Maples, Lisa Homann, and Jordan Fenton (New African Masquerades curators) (USA) David Sanou and Chief Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa (New African Masquerades artists) * (Burkina Faso and Nigeria) Wura-Natasha Ogunji, artist (US-Nigeria; 1922 Revisited: Live Arts Program Participant) ruby onyinyechi amanze, artist (Nigeria-US; 1922 Revisited: Live Arts Program Participant) Bernard Akoi-Jackson, artist, writer (Ghana; 1922 Revisited: Live Arts Program Participant) Photo credit: @lordkubolsstudio taken in Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal - Venice by @thirdspaceartfoundation
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