Urban Realignments: Ethnographic and Artistic Ventures into Congo’s Cityscapes

Filip De Boeck and Sammy Baloji discuss their book Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds (2016) and their exhibition Urban Now: City Life in Congo, which will be on view in Lisbon from the end of March (Galeria Av. da Índia). Chair: Ana Balona de Oliveira Organization: Ana Balona de Oliveira, Thinking from the South: Comparing Post-Colonial Histories and Diasporic Identities through Artistic Practices and Spaces, Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Art: Identities and Representation, CASt-IHA-FCSH-NOVA and Visual Culture, Migration, Globalization and Decolonization, CITCOMCEC- FLUL Mónica de Miranda, Post-Archive: Politics of Memory, Place and Identity, CITCOM-CEC-FLULstatus: publishe