thearchetype.org_TheNewPan-AfricanIdeal.3GP

the new pan-African ideal.3GP
Artists: John Tindle, Michi Meko,MAO, Carla Aaron-Lopez, Zachary Friedline, P.J Svejda, Bethany Joy Collins,Linda Hudgins, Cindy Taylor, Brian Reynolds

*Works on display until May 12* Open Fri-Sat 6p-10p

Pan-Africanism seeks to promote the unification of all Africans and those affected by the Diaspora. Peoples affected by the Diaspora all deal with similar identity issues due to common colonial practices such as divisions within these communities based on skin tone, hair, lips, features etc. Terms like mulatto, coloured and sambo are commonplace in both the Eastern and Western Hemisphere. One product of these divisive constructs results in W.E.B Dubois idea of double consciousness--- this sense of always looking at ones self through the eyes of others, of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity ("Of Our Spiritual Strivings," p. 2).

Has this double consciousness been dissolved, now that the President of the free world is of African descent? If so how? What are the new Ideals, aesthetics that could actually repeal the affects of Colonialism? How can we examine ourselves without a Colonial mind? This exhibition strives to encourage just such a dialogue.

Christopher Hutchinson
Curator
www.archetypeartgallery.com
300 mlk dr se
Atlanta, Ga
30312

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Tags:

• John Tindle
• Michi Meko
• MAO
• Carla Aaron-Lopez
• Zachary Friedline
• P.J Svejda
• Bethany Joy Collins
• Linda Hudgins
• Cindy Taylor
• Brian Reynolds
• Pan-Africa
• colonialism
• divisive
• mulatto
• W.E.B Dubois
• double consciousness