A Lingering Lusotopia: Thinking the Planetary from Angola

Gray, Ros

doi:10.1162/ARTM_a_00068

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February 01 2014

A Lingering Lusotopia: Thinking the Planetary from Angola

Ros Gray

Ros Gray is a writer and lecturer in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a tutor in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art. Her research focuses on revolutionary cinema and its global networks, socialist friendship, anticolonialism, postcolonial theory, and contemporary art. She has coedited a special issue of Third Text titled “The Militant Image: A Ciné-Geography” and has contributed to numerous books and art journals.

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Ros Gray

Ros Gray is a writer and lecturer in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a tutor in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art. Her research focuses on revolutionary cinema and its global networks, socialist friendship, anticolonialism, postcolonial theory, and contemporary art. She has coedited a special issue of Third Text titled “The Militant Image: A Ciné-Geography” and has contributed to numerous books and art journals.

Online ISSN: 2162-2582

Print ISSN: 2162-2574

2014

ARTMargins (2014) 3 (1): 3–27.

https://doi.org/10.1162/ARTM_a_00068

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The article considers two art works made in recent years in Angola: the exhibition Lion & Ox, which featured art works by António Ole and Art Orienté objet, and the installation Icarus 13 by Kiluanji Kia Henda. Both draw on twentieth century utopias still present in Angola and refer to Agostinho Neto, the poet who became Angola's first Marxist-Leninist president. While Lion & Ox explores Angolan nature structured through colonial taxonomies, Icarus 13 tells sci-fi narrative of an Angolan space mission to the Sun, suggesting a shift to a planetary imaginary. What does it mean, in the present conjuncture, to think the planetary from Angola?

Angola, tropical modernism, lusotropicalism, science fiction, Agostinho Neto, planetarity, lusotopia

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