{"id":40,"date":"2016-07-14T08:27:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T08:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westrendart.org\/?p=40"},"modified":"2016-07-14T08:27:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T08:27:46","slug":"africa-in-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westrendart.org\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Africa in Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction Curated by Nay Haq and Al Cameron The Arnolfini, Bristol, May &#8211; July 1, 2012<\/p>\n<p>In this exhibition, curators Haq and Cameron present 10 not necessarily African artists who slyly critique the unabashedly Western-centric traditions of science fiction, and re-frame them via the African continent. Rejecting futurist utopianism, works like Kiluanji Kia Henda&#8217;s Icarus 13 (2008) portray failures of progress, while Neill Blomkamp&#8217;s Tetra Vaal (2004) and Wanuri Kahiu&#8217;s Pumzi (2009) anticipate failures to come. The object here is not to wholly discourage viewers, but to problematize a contemporary imagination where the West lives for the future while Africa is treated as inseparable from its past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction Curated by Nay Haq and Al Cameron The Arnolfini, Bristol, May &#8211; July 1, 2012 In this exhibition, curators Haq and Cameron present 10 not necessarily African artists who slyly critique the unabashedly Western-centric traditions of science fiction, and re-frame them via the African continent. Rejecting futurist utopianism, works like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westrendart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westrendart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westrendart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westrendart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westrendart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westrendart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.westrendart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westrendart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westrendart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westrendart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}