The Portuguese colonial war and African independence were periods of intense production and circulation of images outside the official power. A polyphony of dissonant fragments that contradict commonplaces of the “culture of colonization” is slowly beginning to constitute a new critical material of historical revision.
The talk “VISIONS OF WAR AND CONTRACULTURE” is part of the public program of the exhibition “Alto Nível Baixo” (until February 1) and brings together guests from the field of anthropology, visual arts, therapy and journalism. It will address colonial war and African independence in the light of marginal and disruptive visual productions in Angola and Guinea-Bissau. Artistic, shamanic and ritualistic practices under the lens of hallucinogens and medicinal plants, between healing and colonial terror, engendering processes of reciprocal fabulation, representations and counter-representations.
