"The Re:assemblages symposium (4-5 November), taking place at Alliance Française de Lagos, will bring together artists, scholars and publishers "to collectively rethink African and Afro-diasporic archives as living, contested and future-shaping spaces," says a statement. The symposium is organised by the non-profit Guest Artists Space Foundation (G.A.S.) and Yinka Shonibare Foundation, which were both founded by Shonibare in 2019. The Lagos event is the second edition of Re: assemblages (2025-26), a two-year programme which "reimagines the role of archives in shaping African and global art histories", the organisers add."
"This symposium importantly presents the AAL Lab and Affiliates Network, a laboratory of libraries and archives across Africa, with a corresponding global support network. It brings together artists, curators, archivists, scholars, and publics to reimagine African and Afro-diasporic archives from the mid-twentieth century to the present. "We ask: how can such archives be animated by performance, annotation, and curatorial experimentation? How can they function as living systems, intersecting with"
The Re:assemblages symposium will take place 4–5 November at Alliance Fran e7aise de Lagos and will convene artists, scholars and publishers to rethink African and Afro-diasporic archives as living, contested and future-shaping spaces. The event is organised by Guest Artists Space Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation and forms the second edition of a two-year Re:assemblages programme (2025–26) that reimagines archives' roles in African and global art histories. Panels will address themes such as The Living Archive and African Curators Matter. Sponsors include the Terra Foundation for American Art and Afreximbank. The event will unveil the African Arts Libraries Lab linking arts libraries and publishers across seven African cities.
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