Decolonize the Art World with Yaa Addae

The Art History Babes

Recorded History Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Visual Arts, History, Education, Arts

4.4 • 852 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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A powerful, wonderful, full moon-charged conversation with writer, artist, curator, and organizer of the platform @decolonizetheartworld, Yaa Addae about overhaul of the global art industry, the absolute necessity of imagining anti-colonial possibilities, and the discipline of art history vs. a history of the world as constructed by artists. Decolonize the Art World: https://www.are.na/decolonize-the-art-world ig: @decolonizetheartworld Yaa's ig: @yaatheplant AHB YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/TheArtHistoryBabes Patreon: www.patreon.com/arthistorybabes Website: www.arthistorybabes.com Insta: @arthistorybabespodcast Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.8	The art history, babes. Welcome to the podcast. I'm Corey. Today I have a very special guest here. I am joined by Yaa Aday, who runs the Instagram account Decolonize the art world. And she is here to talk to us about this platform
1:14.5	and her work as an art historian. Yeah, it's so good to have you here. Yes, thank you. Thank you for
1:22.5	having me. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Yes, so my name is Yarday, and I'm a Ghanaian British writer, artist, and curator.
1:33.7	I'm currently based in Accra, where I've worked with a few galleries.
1:40.5	Most of my work is around power, trying to understand it.
1:46.9	And that's partly what informed Deaconalizer our world, which I describe as an online anti-colonial art theory school.
1:55.5	I've been running that Instagram account and also Arena account for the past month.
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