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Amnesia is a provocative conceptual framework for an art project with the intention of examining the cultural and creative consequences of collective cultural memory loss. It propagates the examination of the cultural & creative consequences of multi-generational breakage & colonialism, such as displacement, loss, confusion, anger, pain, fear, mis-education & identity crises. The project is celebrating the cultural clash that begat multiculturalism and from it attempts to sow the seed of a common history which the present & future generations can excel in as brothers and sisters, irrespective of race, faith, gender or heritage.

The kick-off event will be a week of intense conversations, presentations and debate with Simon Njami in October 2007, and Fernando Alvim in January 2008. The second phase in 2008 will involve exhibitions and presentations by artists from Africa & its Diaspora.
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Simon Njami is a writer, novelist and independent curator from Cameroon. He has published several books and numerous texts on Contemporary Art from the African continent. He was the co-founder of Paris based journal, Revue Noir and Chief curator of Africa Remix, and Bamako Photography Festival / Recontres Africaines de la Photographie de Bamako. He has curated a number of exhibitions including the African section of the Sao Paulo Biennale (2004), and the continuing exhibition, Check-list Luanda Pop at the African pavilion at the Venice biennial in July 2007, together with Fernando Alvim.