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Center of Unfinished Business

C& Center of Unfinished Business, vista da instalação “1 Milhão de Rosas para Angela Davis” no Lipsiusbau Dresden, 10.10.2020 – 24.01.2021. Foto: SKD / Laura Fiorio.

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The Center on C&

O C& Center of Unfinished Business é uma sala de leitura que reúne uma seleção extraordinária, por vezes desconcertante, de obras ligadas, de múltiplas maneiras, à questão do colonialismo. Da colonização alemã à moda congolesa, passando pelos mercados financeiros do século XXI, a coleção atravessa diversos campos relacionados.

Inaugurada em 2017, a sala de leitura viajou e teceu ligações de múltiplas maneiras com instituições desde Cincinnati até Hong Kong, passando por Berlim, Viena, Toulouse, Atenas, Kassel e Nova Iorque.

Vista da instalação C& Center of Unfinished Business, ifa Gallery Berlin, Berlim, 2017. Foto: Victoria Tomaschko

Ao propiciar encontros e conversas abertas em torno das relações de poder coloniais persistentes, incluindo os desafios de acessibilidade e de consciência histórica, o Centro impulsiona a revisão crítica e convida as instituições artísticas a interrogar os seus próprios pontos cegos. Contém obras da coleção da C&, mas também da instituição anfitriã, e procura sempre incluir uma organização local de base.

O projeto não pretende constituir uma biblioteca coerente e exaustiva sobre o colonialismo, ainda que pudesse sê-lo? O colonialismo é um assunto inacabado: persiste, sob diversas formas.

Vista da instalação, C& Center of Unfinished Business. Foto: Wes Battoclette, 2022. Imagem cortesia do Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.

Connecting Institutions

Launched in 2017, the reading room has travelled to art spaces and museums around the world, connecting with institutions such as:

  • ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), Berlin
  • Museum Ludwig, Cologne
  • Les Abattoirs Musée, Toulouse
  • Para Site, Hong Kong
  • Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
  • Vera List Center, New York

Tending Toward Liberation no Social Justice Hub, University Center, The New School, 18 de maio de 2023. Foto: Argenis Apolinario, cortesia do Vera List Center for Art and Politics.

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Galeria do Centro

A modular light wood bookshelf holds numerous books in a bright room with reflective walls.
An exhibition space with multiple glass display cases filled with books and magazines, and a white circular table with colorful notes.
A gallery room with books displayed on shelves on a dark blue wall, accompanied by text for a "CA Book Residency."
A modern bookstore interior with three tall wooden display shelves full of books, and three small wooden stools with red geometric patterns.
A white room features two tall glass shelves filled with books, a desk with a computer, and various posters on the walls.
A metal bookshelf filled with diverse books, including "Gauguin und Tahiti," "Red Africa," and "Whitney Houston," with a street visible in the background.
A woman reads a book next to modern display shelves filled with media, with other people and a large screen in the background of an event space.
A modern, multi-level metal pipe bookshelf filled with books and a monitor, stands in front of a large black-and-white mural of people.
A multi-sided dark metal and light wood bookshelf display filled with books and a central informational panel in a gallery.
An innovative, multi-level book display with several people browsing its contents in a modern gallery.
A modular shelving unit displaying books, magazines, a plant, a printer, and tablets, in front of large windows.
A large, dark modular bookshelf filled with books in a room with a "RAKETE" sign and an arched glass door.
A modular shelving unit with books, plants, and headphones, features a TV showing a person balancing a bowl on their head, set against large windows.
A gallery display with books on a wooden grid shelf, a black and white photo mural of a workshop, and stacks of publications on foreground tables.
A unique interlocking wooden bookshelf filled with books stands in a modern interior space.
A lime green room with a large wooden bookshelf packed with books, a table displaying more books, and a white informational panel.
Man reading on a stool by two minimalist light wood bookshelves in a modern room with a large window view of a city street.
An exhibition space features a white banner reading "Welcome to the C& Center of unfinished business" next to an L-shaped metal shelf with books, frames, and a TV, with a black folding stool in front.
A modern interior space with books and magazines on white shelves and wood-paneled walls.
L-shaped wooden shelving unit displaying books and a monitor in a spacious room with brick walls.
A large pink-framed bookshelf and desk with two stools stand in a brick-walled room with concrete pillars, next to a TV showing a person in a VR headset.
Interior of a room featuring display cases and a table with a green chair. A large window with green text on the glass offers a view of a street with parked cars.
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A sala de leitura está disponível em diferentes formatos. Para mais informações sobre o conceito, a abordagem curatorial e os custos, entre em contato através de:

mnegusse@contemporaryand.com

O Centro na C& Magazine e na C& América Latina Magazine

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