Name: The Dash
Start: 2026-05-06T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-06T11:00:00+02:00
Location: Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal

The Dash

The African Art in Venice Forum (AAVF) is a public and free discursive event presented every other year in Venice, Italy during the opening week of the Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte di Venezia. The project provides new opportunities of exchange and visibility for contemporary art from Africa and its diasporas in the cultural, professional, and infrastructural context of the Venice Biennale.The third edition of the Forum is presented on 20th and 21st April 2022 at the Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal. It has been designed as a highly interactive experience featuring talks, workshops, readings, and more, with an expanded format spanning across two full days and online workshops in the following months.#AAVF2022 #inclusivedialoguematters #africanartdialogues

African Art Dialogues

Two runners race in slow motion, guided by spectators’ voices. A poetic, collective performance on time, movement, and refusal of winners.

Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal

African Art In Venice Forum 2026

The AAVF is a platform for critical dialogue on African and diasporic art. The 2026 edition, “Beyond Visibility: A Method of Inquiry,” considers visibility as a starting point to question how narratives are shaped and responsibilities defined.

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Part of the 1922 Revisited Program by Third Space Art Foundation The Dash is a performance of two runners who race in slow motion for exactly one hour. The performance may be staged within an interior or exterior space: the fixed space of a room; an open plaza; tight city corridors; or from a start line to the finish. The spectators play an important role in this staged competition. As vocal timekeepers, they collectively signal the start time, the half-way mark, and crossing of the finish line. In their embodiment of restraint and reverberation, collectivity and calm, the performers incorporate facial expressions, hand signals and other gestures as critical choreography and necessary glitch. This movement-language references and riffs from the archive and research of the African sculptures of the 1922 Venice Biennale; track and field competitions; and the languages of drawing shared by amanze and Ogunji. The title of the performance­–with its multiple meanings­–offers an additional layer of poetic possibility to this endeavor. A dash is a quick run, a punctuation mark, and in Nigeria, a gift, or a bribe. Turning to the grammatical dash, the race could be conceptualized as break or interruption. Inviting separation from the usual rushing of time, the performance might also be read as the belaboured writing of a long run-on sentence. Viewers witness the runners' procession–also–as anti-procession. It is a refusal of winners, or the need to pick sides with movement happening as a method for embodying presence, enacting form and expressing feeling–together. Arrival at the finish line a strange, shared feat. Artists Wura-Natasha Ogunji ruby onyinyechi amanze Location Hotel Monaco, Sala Corte

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