8 December 2022

Art Africa Sessions #1: Diana Felix Da Costa – Youth & Body Art in South Sudan

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Date: 8 December 2022
Time: 5:00 pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 4426
Event type: Lecture

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Speaker: Diana Felix Da Costa

Abstract

Since the early 2000s, young people in the rural area of Greater Pibor in eastern South Sudan have been incorporating new images and symbols of power and modernity into practices of body scarification, ranging from wrist-watches, pens and water pumps to mobile phones and Ak-47s. In this talk, Diana Felix Da Costa asks what this shifting iconography reveals in relation to the militarisation and fragmentation of the very important social institution of the age-sets, but also what it represents for individual and collective youth identities and sub-identities. Dr Diana Felix Da Costa is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in SOAS School of Arts.

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