As part of their residency, Nayansaku Mufwankolo will critically explore, through an art-based research practice by the means of poetry, the ways in which Western media perpetuates the dehumanization of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) through linguistic practices and discursive strategies. By dissecting the specific lexicon and narrative structures employed, the research examines how these choices reinforce and update colonial constructs of racialized identities.
Nayansaku Mufwankolo is a lecturer in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory as well as the Delegate of Diversity and Inclusion at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD– Genève). They are also a consultant in diversity and inclusion and give workshops on intersectional violence and discriminations. As an artist, their research is twofold and focuses, through poetry, on Afrocosmic auto fiction by the means astrophysics and quantum physics, and on the historical discursive processes of fictionalizing power structures.
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