‘NFUMU NGUI; Totem in the Anthropocene’ is a series of lecture-performances by Filip Van Dingenen in which he investigates and questions forms of display in zoological collections and archives of natural history. In the performances Van Dingenen uses a variety of props to narrate the different ways in which display affects the presentation, representation, or experience of nature.

What could be appropriate, contemporary forms of the gatherings that constitute zoos and archives as spaces and places where our relation with ‘nature’ is at stake? The focus will be on the Barcelona Zoological garden and specifically on the albino gorilla Copito de Nieve (Spanish for Snowflake). The aim is to re-interpret this case as a broader part of the zoological collection and its heritage into a contemporary context.

Filip Van Dingenen is a multidisciplinary artist and co-founder of the Ecole Mondiale in Brussels. He is currently PHD researcher at LUCA School of Arts in Ghent/Brussels and affiliated researcher at the Laboratory of Education and Society at KU Leuven.

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Extra Academy

Extra Academy is the spontaneous alliance of Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen and the two art schools of the city, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Sint-Lucas Antwerpen.

Language English