A graduate of the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris, N'Goné Fall is a Senegalese curator, essayist and consultant in cultural engineering.
An art critic, she was the editor of the African contemporary art magazine "Revue Noire" from 1994 to 2001. She has edited books on contemporary visual arts in Africa and has also designed exhibitions in Africa, Europe and the United States.
N'Goné Fall was an associate professor at Senghor University in Alexandria, Egypt, in the Department of Cultural Industries, from 2007 to 2011. As a cultural engineering consultant, she is the author of strategic plans, orientation programs and evaluation reports for Senegalese and international cultural institutions. She is also co-founder of the Gaw-Lab collective in Dakar, a research and production platform in new media and visual arts.
N'Goné Fall is the General Curator for the Africa 2020 Season.
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This seminar proposes to reflect on the driving roles of artistic forms, practices and knowledge in the development and circulation of political structures, movements, ideologies and imaginations on the African continent and in its diasporas. Our work will focus on the visual and performing arts in the broadest sense of the term (dance, theatre, visual arts, photography, cinema, music, literature, digital arts...) and will be part of a critical and transdisciplinary approach. Anthropology, history, art history, political science, visual and material cultures, colonial, postcolonial, decolonial and diasporic studies of Africa... will rub shoulders and question each other. The sessions will be structured around presentations by researchers and/or practitioners - artists, cultural actors, activists. Diverse and reflecting a wide range of points of view, the work and approaches presented will have in common that working (on) the intersections between art and politics requires a commitment on the basis of which reflection and theorization are required.
Thematic of the 2018-2019 cycle: Future Africa
Future or, better still, future. The future of cities, ecologies, gender constructions; the future of technology and science; violence - political, economic, social; hope; the very notions of the future... Thinking, saying, giving substance to these and other related futures from Africa: these are the tasks that plastic artists set themselves through their practices and thoughts.ne.s, filmmakers, performers and writers, philosophers and researchers, curators and cultural activists who will be participating in the seminar in 2018-2019. Committed, indocilious, even radical, the proposals they develop undermine apriori and doxas.