Creolised Dance, Museumised Space: Jeannette Ehlers and Decolonial Re-Edification

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_6139
dc.contributor.author	Kabir Ananya Jahanara
dc.title	Creolised Dance, Museumised Space: Jeannette Ehlers and Decolonial Re-Edification
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This chapter examines three works by Danish artist Jeannette Ehlers that involve dance as ritual movement in what I call“museumised space”. Examining these dances as creolised products arising from the enslavement of Africans by European nations, I will argue that Ehlers performs through them an Afropean decolonial praxis of ‘re-edification’ around the silences surrounding Denmark’s colonial past, involving in particular a dialectic between spectrality and material sumptuousness that draws purposely on dance in relation to the materiality of sound.
dc.relation.ispartof	The Future Contemporary
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-09-16
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-04-12
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-535-3/creolised-dance-museumised-space-jeannette-ehlers/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-534-6/004
dc.identifier.issn	2785-1613
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-0986
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-535-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-534-6
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	African-heritage dance
dc.subject	African-heritage dance
dc.subject	Creolisation
dc.subject	Creolisation
dc.subject	Danish colonialism
dc.subject	Danish colonialism
dc.subject	Decoloniality
dc.subject	Decoloniality
dc.subject	Jeannaette Ehlers
dc.subject	Jeannaette Ehlers
dc.subject	Museumised space
dc.subject	Museumised space

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Creolised Dance, Museumised Space: Jeannette Ehlers and Decolonial Re-Edification

Ananya Jahanara Kabir King’s College London, UK

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This chapter examines three works by Danish artist Jeannette Ehlers that involve dance as ritual movement in what I call“museumised space”. Examining these dances as creolised products arising from the enslavement of Africans by European nations, I will argue that Ehlers performs through them an Afropean decolonial praxis of ‘re-edification’ around the silences surrounding Denmark’s colonial past, involving in particular a dialectic between spectrality and material sumptuousness that draws purposely on dance in relation to the materiality of sound.

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Sept. 16, 2021

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April 12, 2021

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Keywords: Jeannaette Ehlers • Danish colonialism • Museumised space • African-heritage dance • Creolisation • Decoloniality

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