Browsing by Author "Peters, Dzifa"
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- Nuno Nunes-Ferreira to reach one hundredPublication . Peters, Dzifa; Koncz, Linda
- Places of sanctuary in the artistic work of Liz Johnson ArturPublication . Peters, DzifaThis essay deals with the concept of sanctuary in relation to Afrodiasporic and postmigrant formations of identity. It discusses coexisting and alternating cultural identities through the work of Russian-Ghanaian artist and photographer Liz Johnson Artur, who has been accumulating her Black Balloon Archive of Black culture and diasporic identities for the past 30 years, travelling through different countries, lifestyles, and classes. The idea of the sanctuary as a place of refuge, safety, and hospitality has informed the discourse around diasporic migration in a postcolonial world for many decades. Comparatively analyzing the politics of representation and discourses on agency through Johnson Artur’s cross-cultural and intimate photographic practice, this essay explores her articulation of conditional shelters, demarcations of diasporic identities, and ultimately the archive itself as a place of sanctuary.
- The polyphonic voices of postmigrationPublication . Peters, DzifaPostmigration has become a prominent concept within the Humanities. Postmigration: Art, Culture, and Politics in Contemporary Europe clarifies many questions circulating around the source of its ideas. The authors portray different approaches and lay out a chronology of the term´s multifaced interpretations. Elaborating its actual qualities along artistic objects and cultural spaces, the contributions of the volume provide a notion of postmigration that effectively negotiates complexities of the contemporary.
- Tropes of polarity : visual representation and afrodiasporic identitiesPublication . Peters, Dzifa; Gil, Isabel Maria de Oliveira Capeloa; Basseler, MichaelThe research project Tropes of Polarity: Visual Representation and Afrodiasporic Identities analyzes colonial, postcolonial, diasporic, and contemporary identities through the medium of photography and its tropes, to investigate phenomena of West African and Afro diasporic identity constructions that indicate alternations of coexisting cultural identities and perspectives. The articulation of identity in relation to postcolonial circumstances, postmigration and intercultural polarities are central to the project. The research focuses specifically on the context of West Africa and its diaspora in Europe, particularly on the context of Ghana. The research goals are dedicated to discussing notions of a transcultural form of code switching within the photographic context. Arguing that alternating switches between different cultural perspectives have enabled the formation of contemporary spectral identities throughout time, thus proposing an interpolation to the notion of hybridity. The doctoral thesis identifies a resultant resistance, subversion, and agency that finds itself reflected in the potentiality of transnational migrant knowledge, multiplicity, and friction, while being negotiated under the premise of intersectionality, and within a postmigrant condition. The thesis finally claims that all the manifestations above are embedded in photographs as a mnemotechnique.