Thinking with the Sunken Tusks is an event gathering artists and theorists to engage in stories unfolding from two elephant tusks submerged in the ocean for more than two centuries.
These and another 820 tusks were being transported from London to Bombay onboard an English East India ship when they sank in the Cape Verdean archipelago in 1743. Corroded by salt water, they are now exhibited in the Museum of the Sea in Mindelo. What stories might these tusks hold, which worlds and times might they announce?
Through lectures, performances and conversations this one-day event will speculate on human and more-than-human entanglements and colonial histories of the sea. As the current hegemony of capitalist modernity is rapidly decreasing the possibilities for life, this day is dedicated to thinking with two elephant tusks to engage in our collective colonial histories and imagine other ways of being.
Presenters: artist Adjoa Armah, curator Oyindamola Fakeye, composer Neo Muyanga cultural critic Gene Ray, architect Marie-Louise Richards and artist Jonelle Twum.
Kilde:
roda – soft water on hard stone
roda – soft water on hard stone