(Counter) Currents
Join us for a conversation between Cabo Verdean architect and artist Patti Anahory and Song Yeonjun (UiS), as they thread (back) together what connects the Black Atlantic and the white North Sea. The conversation will be followed by a performance by Mahla Rashidian.
Program
17.30-18.30 Conversation with Patti Anahory and Song Yeonjun
18.30-19.00 Performance by Mahla Rashidian: "Silent Translation".
(Counter) Currents: Connecting waters between Cabo Verde and Norway
In this conversation, Patti Anahory and Anders Riel Müller/Song Yeonjun will engage with different currents linking the Black Atlantic and the white North Sea.
Starting from Cabo Verde and Bergen not as peripheral spaces, but significant nodes in (colonial) routes connecting people, stockfish, tuna, water currents, weather patterns and more, Anahory and Song will engage critical spatial approaches to think through coloniality and extractivism in these specific spaces and to surface forms of connection that disentangle (colonial) violences and work towards repair.
Bios
Patricia Anahory (external link) is a Cabo Verdean architect working at the intersection of architecture, art, research, and pedagogy. Her practice engages African and Afro-diasporic spatial practices as forms of decolonial knowledge production, to consider the entanglements of power, place, belonging, memory, and identity. Anahory was a Visiting Professor at Columbia University and the Founding Director of CIDLOT, a multidisciplinary research centre at the University of Cabo Verde. She co-founded Storia na Lugar (external link), a storytelling platform and counter-narrative practice, and her(e), otherwise, an experimental platform for African and diasporic women creatives and spatial thinkers. She holds a Master’s in Architecture from Princeton University and a BArch from the Boston Architectural College.
Anders Riel Müller/Song Yeonjun (external link) is Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Stavanger. His research examines how imaginaries of progress shape political, economic, and cultural relations of production and consumption with a particular focus on aspects of justice and (post)-imperialism. He is currently working on a book project that provides a more-than-human history of South Korea’s post-colonial developmentalist project from the 1970s. He is a founding member of the Social and Spatial Justice research group (external link) at the University of Stavanger and the European research collective Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea (external link).
The event is funded by the Nordic Gender Fund (external link)