Dunja Hersak
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 230472 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dunja Hersak |
| NOMBRES | Dunja |
| APELLIDO | Hersak |
| FIRMA | HERSAK D |
| AFILIACIONES | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Power Objects
Classifications, typologies, labels, and other organizational tools help us wade through complex cultural contexts and specificities. They may be a point of departure that suggests clarity, providing a veil of reassurance. Yet, if not subject to renewal in terms of temporal and spatial considerations, they can become static mechanisms that constrain and obscure the wealth of changing and seemingly anomalous factors that are essential features of …
Freddy Tsimba, Mabele Eleki Lola! The Earth, Brighter than Paradise
There were several reasons to celebrate the temporary exhibition of Freddy Tsimba's work at the newly renovated AfricaMuseum in Tervuren, a stone's throw away from the center of Brussels. It was an important occasion as it was the museum's first large-scale exhibition of contemporary African art and its first one-man show. It is also significant that it was an event recognizing an artist living and working in the Congo, unlike many shows that dra…
AfricaMuseum reopening Tervuren, Belgium
The reopening in December 2018 of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA/MRAC), now also known as the AfricaMuseum, after five years of renovation (Fig. 1), has been a major event, not only in Belgium but way beyond its borders. Given the world wide celebrity of this interdisciplinary institution with its extraordinary collection of historical artifacts, I have considered it essential to solicit multiple voices and views. The commissioning of …
Further Perspectives on Kifwebe Masquerades
SCOPUS: ar.j
Restitution
On June 7, 2018, at 11:00 am, a press conference, organized by the private Angolan Sindika Dokolo Foundation, was held in an elegant hotel on the Grand Sablon Square in Brussels. The objective of this gathering was to publicize and celebrate the return of six objects to the National Museum of Dundo in northeastern Angola, from where they are said to have “gone missing.” The pieces included a marvelous Chokwe Mwana Pwo mask (Fig. 1) and a chief's …
On the Concept of Prototype in Songye Masquerades
SCOPUS: ar.j
Retour d'Angola , Musée d'Ethnographie Neuchâtel (MEN), Switzerland, December 6, 2007–December 31, 2010
New Spaces for Art and Artists in Africa
SCOPUS: sh.j
There are Many Kongo Worlds
The article analyses the distinctiveness of magico-religious practices in the north-western sector of the vast Kongo cultural complex, namely among the peoples who refer to themselves as Vili and Yombe. On the basis of fieldwork and a critical examination of the sources, the article points out that such widely distributed terms of proto-Bantu origin asnkisicannot be covered by a single or even a multi-stranded definition; the variants, ranging fr…
Songye Masks and Figure Sculpture
There are Many Kongo Worlds
The article analyses the distinctiveness of magico-religious practices in the north-western sector of the vast Kongo cultural complex, namely among the peoples who refer to themselves as Vili and Yombe. On the basis of fieldwork and a critical examination of the sources, the article points out that such widely distributed terms of proto-Bantu origin asnkisicannot be covered by a single or even a multi-stranded definition; the variants, ranging fr…
Power Objects
Classifications, typologies, labels, and other organizational tools help us wade through complex cultural contexts and specificities. They may be a point of departure that suggests clarity, providing a veil of reassurance. Yet, if not subject to renewal in terms of temporal and spatial considerations, they can become static mechanisms that constrain and obscure the wealth of changing and seemingly anomalous factors that are essential features of …
Restitution
On June 7, 2018, at 11:00 am, a press conference, organized by the private Angolan Sindika Dokolo Foundation, was held in an elegant hotel on the Grand Sablon Square in Brussels. The objective of this gathering was to publicize and celebrate the return of six objects to the National Museum of Dundo in northeastern Angola, from where they are said to have “gone missing.” The pieces included a marvelous Chokwe Mwana Pwo mask (Fig. 1) and a chief's …
Further Perspectives on Kifwebe Masquerades
SCOPUS: ar.j
On the Concept of Prototype in Songye Masquerades
SCOPUS: ar.j
AfricaMuseum reopening Tervuren, Belgium
The reopening in December 2018 of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA/MRAC), now also known as the AfricaMuseum, after five years of renovation (Fig. 1), has been a major event, not only in Belgium but way beyond its borders. Given the world wide celebrity of this interdisciplinary institution with its extraordinary collection of historical artifacts, I have considered it essential to solicit multiple voices and views. The commissioning of …
Songye Masks and Figure Sculpture
There are Many Kongo Worlds
The article analyses the distinctiveness of magico-religious practices in the north-western sector of the vast Kongo cultural complex, namely among the peoples who refer to themselves as Vili and Yombe. On the basis of fieldwork and a critical examination of the sources, the article points out that such widely distributed terms of proto-Bantu origin asnkisicannot be covered by a single or even a multi-stranded definition; the variants, ranging fr…
New Spaces for Art and Artists in Africa
SCOPUS: sh.j
Retour d'Angola , Musée d'Ethnographie Neuchâtel (MEN), Switzerland, December 6, 2007–December 31, 2010
On the Concept of Prototype in Songye Masquerades
SCOPUS: ar.j
Restitution
On June 7, 2018, at 11:00 am, a press conference, organized by the private Angolan Sindika Dokolo Foundation, was held in an elegant hotel on the Grand Sablon Square in Brussels. The objective of this gathering was to publicize and celebrate the return of six objects to the National Museum of Dundo in northeastern Angola, from where they are said to have “gone missing.” The pieces included a marvelous Chokwe Mwana Pwo mask (Fig. 1) and a chief's …
AfricaMuseum reopening Tervuren, Belgium
The reopening in December 2018 of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA/MRAC), now also known as the AfricaMuseum, after five years of renovation (Fig. 1), has been a major event, not only in Belgium but way beyond its borders. Given the world wide celebrity of this interdisciplinary institution with its extraordinary collection of historical artifacts, I have considered it essential to solicit multiple voices and views. The commissioning of …
Further Perspectives on Kifwebe Masquerades
SCOPUS: ar.j
Power Objects
Classifications, typologies, labels, and other organizational tools help us wade through complex cultural contexts and specificities. They may be a point of departure that suggests clarity, providing a veil of reassurance. Yet, if not subject to renewal in terms of temporal and spatial considerations, they can become static mechanisms that constrain and obscure the wealth of changing and seemingly anomalous factors that are essential features of …
Freddy Tsimba, Mabele Eleki Lola! The Earth, Brighter than Paradise
There were several reasons to celebrate the temporary exhibition of Freddy Tsimba's work at the newly renovated AfricaMuseum in Tervuren, a stone's throw away from the center of Brussels. It was an important occasion as it was the museum's first large-scale exhibition of contemporary African art and its first one-man show. It is also significant that it was an event recognizing an artist living and working in the Congo, unlike many shows that dra…
Art (8 obras) · Visual arts (5 obras) · African history and culture studies (4 obras) · Cultural Identity and Heritage (4 obras) · History (4 obras) · Law (3 obras) · African Studies and Ethnography (2 obras) · Art history (2 obras) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (2 obras) · Geography (2 obras)