Public Lecture by Sylvester Ogbechie

This lecture evaluates how strategies of art collection and display enable the conversion of African cultural objects into discursive and fungible artworks. Ogbechie analyzes how art institutions produce and organize information about African art and investigates the politics of representation that affect the value of African art and cultural knowledge in the global economy. Ogbechie also investigates the meaning of the canon of African art as it is represented in contemporary collections.