Representing the World, Weathering its End

Representing the World, Weathering its End

Arthur Bispo do Rosário’s Ecology of the Ship

Marlon Miguel

https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-17_12

https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-17/miguel_representing-the-world.html

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This chapter explores the intrinsic relationship between weather/weathering and the imaginary of the sea, which features in the work of artist Arthur Bispo do Rosário. Bispo was a black man who spent most of his life in psychiatric institutions. There is an important interplay between his psychotic deliriums and the production of hundreds of objects, many of them ships or forms that relate to the sea. These objects open up a discussion on decoloniality as they are embedded with marks left by the transatlantic slave trade.

Berlin

ICI Berlin Press

2020

Bispo do Rosário

Decolonialism: Art

Madness

Weathering

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Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 17 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020), pp. 247–76

Marlon Miguel, ‘Representing the World, Weathering its End: Arthur Bispo do Rosário’s Ecology of the Ship’, in Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 17 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020), pp. 247–76 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-17_12>

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