Resident Artist Lecture:
Dineo Seshee Bopape
Type
Lecture
Series
Barbara Lee Lecture Series
Location
Old Dominion Fresco Barn
Skowhegan Campus
39 Art School Rd
Madison, ME 04950
Date
12 AM
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Dineo Seshee Bopape joins us for our third summer lecture. Dineo’s installations focus on earthly materials that contain natural wisdom, as well as carry the weight of history and injustice. If we stop and listen, what does the earth say? Dineo writes: “The earth never said we don’t belong” (the earth says we belong).
About the artist:
Dineo Seshee Bopape was born in the year of the golden rooster, 1981 on a Sunday. If she were Ghanaian, her name would be Akosua/Akos for short. During the same year of her birth, there were perhaps 22 recorded Atlantic Ocean hurricanes and 4 Indian Ocean cyclones close to Mozambique. The Brixton riots took place; Machu Picchu is declared a heritage site; Chairman Mao’s wife is sentenced for anti-revolutionary speech; a series of apparitions of The Virgin Mary commence to a group of schoolgirls in Rwanda; Winnie Mandela’s banishment orders are renewed for another 5 years; Swiss women gained legal recourse against unequal pay through a referendum in Switzerland, the song “endless love” is popular on the airwaves; Umkhonto We Sizwe performs numerous underground assaults against the Apartheid state. Across Beirut, Israeli warplanes bombard Palestinian Liberation Organization; the Boeing 767 makes its first air flight, In Chile, the Water Code is established, separating water ownership from land ownership; In Ukraine, the titanium “Motherland” statue was erected honoring Soviet victory over the Nazis; Zaire is the premier producer of the world’s cobalt, Greece is struck by three earthquakes over a period of 11 days; the Slave trade is officially abolished in Mauritania…there’s a mass migration of cranes from the usual 13500 cranes to 21500, It is said that right whales born in that year, are taller than right whales born since. Other concurrent events of the year of her birth, and of her lifetime, are perhaps too many to fully know; Some things continued, some transformed, some shifted, others ended(?) some began… The world’s human population was then apparently at around 4.529 billion… today she (Bopape) is one amongst 8.1 billion – occupying multiple adjectives.
About The Barbara Lee Lecture Series:
The Barbara Lee Lecture Series is an annual series that features faculty artists during our summer program. During this series, we open our campus to the public, welcoming our friends and neighbors into the conversations that take place at the School. After the summer program, the lectures become part of the Lecture Archive, a growing collection of recordings that can be accessed online or on request.
