Black Atlantic
From Berlin’s Haus Der Kulteren Der Welt/House of World Cultures comes Black Atlantic, a series of events running 17 September to 14 November, 2004.
Black Atlantic refers not to a clearly defined region or specific period, but to a novel variety of space: a multidimensional and trans-cultural space characterised more by movement, networking and flows than by particular sites or places. It is a space in which the ocean becomes a negative continent that requires us to redraw social, historical and cultural lines of communication between the Americas, Africa and western Europe.
Culture crosses the Black Atlantic and histories of crossing, as both mixture and movement, mean that culture itself will have to be reconceptualised. Its links with land and territory are placed in question and culture is no longer to be understood as an exclusively sedentary phenomenon…
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