Joining in black Nordic study: theories, practices, relationships

This seminar series brings together artists, scholars, researchers and organizers from South Africa, Mexico, U.S., Iran, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Botswana, Peru and Sweden, to share the interdisciplinary, aesthetic and transcultural nature of Black Study. 

Oda-Kange Midtvåge Diallo and Deise Faria Nunes

In this talk, Oda-Kange Midtvåge Diallo will share her practice of joining in black Nordic study alongside black and african diaspora youth, artists, and activists. Oda-Kange will explore what is means to center collaborative, anticolonial, and feminist pedagogies in an emergent field of black nordic study, on the margins, over, under and through the university machine. 

Oda-Kange (she/her) is a black feminist working with practices of ‘black study’, a non-disciplinary, collaborative, and embodied mode of knowledge creation, among African diaspora youth in the Nordics. Oda-Kange holds a Master’s in Anthropology and a PhD in Gender Studies. As a Fulani, Norwegian, and Danish person, she thinks with, from, and against the materialities of Nordic colonialisms and the nation state. Oda-Kange’s work is always anchored in collaborative, queer, black feminist, and anticolonial pedagogies. 

Estuaries

Deise Faria Nunes will offer an iteration of the performance lecture Estuaries: The Waters as a Metaphor. In this work, Nunes navigates different Afro-Brazilian Orisha myths and reflects on how narrative streams of thought about knowledge can debouch in concepts for performance dramaturgy. Notions such as oralitures and performances of the spiral time, coined by Brazilian scholar Leda Maria Martins, will be presented alongside the idea of decolonial unearthings, one of the concepts created in the context of Nunes’ recent doctoral research."
 
Deise Faria Nunes (BR/NO), is a PhD candidate in the program Art in Context at the University of Agder with a MA in Theatre Studies from the University of Oslo. A multimedia performance practitioner, researcher, writer and dramaturge, her work explores the methodology Estuaries: Water Mythologies & Art Encounters. This methodology connects prose, Afro-Brazilian mythology, performance and elements within rituals, in dialogue with artists, activists and thinkers connected to the African diaspora.
 
: @estuaries_diaspora  @deisenunesiam

The performance and talk will be followed by a conversation with PhD student in choreography at SKH Maipelo Gabang.

Seminar Resources

Joining in black Nordic study https://ntnuopen.ntnu.no/ntnu-xmlui/handle/11250/3104885 
 

Read more about the research project: FutureBrownSpace

Read more about the Seminar serie: A Season of Black study II