Style Congo: Heritage & Heresy humour From the gig economy

From the gig economy

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The emphasis on ‘action’ in the title corresponds to a performative element in the show

Encompassing fruit-suffused anecdotes and observations drawn from the fields of archaeology and anthropology

Style Congo: Heritage & Heresy humour From the gig economyStyle Congo: Heritage & Heresy explores the politics of cultural representation and appropriation through contemporary artistic and architectural interventions and historic materials, primarily from the CIVA collection in Brussels. Based on the eponymous exhibition and using Art Nouveau as its starting point, this book chronicles the representation of the Congo in international and colonial expositions held in Belgium, France and the Congo between