{"id":12247,"date":"2018-03-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/runako-ghosted-african-aesthetics\/"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:20:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T11:20:36","slug":"runako-ghosted-african-aesthetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/runako-ghosted-african-aesthetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Runako: \u00bbGhosted\u00ab African Aesthetics \u2013 To the Fore And Into the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[451,505,465],"project_type":[725,731],"class_list":["post-12247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-web-residencies","project-calls-2018","project-ghosted-2018","project_type-formats","project_type-web-residents"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"The project I propose to work on is an exploration of traditional African beauty\/aesthetics and what it could look like in the future.\r\n\r\nI aim to work on sketches, digital paintings, and GIFs of characters with attire and accessories inspired by prominent African tribes and juxtapose them with futuristic imagery. My objective is to challenge Western notions of beauty by bringing \u00bbghosted\u00ab African aesthetics to the fore and taking them into the future.\r\n\r\nFor years African perceptions of beauty had been affected by Western and Eastern media. In recent times there has been a rise in new outlooks on traditional African beauty. This change is evidenced by the popularity of blogs such as <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/nubiamancy.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nubiamancy<\/a>, <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/africandigitalart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">African Digital Art<\/a>, and Young Black Artists, to name a few.\r\n\r\nIn 2018 Marvel\u2019s Black Panther grossed over a billion USD worldwide. The film flaunted Afro-futuristic aesthetics, borrowing from the Basotho (Lesotho), Ejagham (Nigeria), Ndebele (South Africa\/Zimbabwe), ovaHimba (Namibia), Maasai (Kenya\/Tanzania), Dahomey (Republic of Benin), Igbo (Nigeria), Benin (Nigeria), Mursi (Ethiopia), and Kente (Ghana). I believe it is important for Africa to define its own standard of beauty and aesthetics. Black Panther\u2019s success is a sign of the significant growth of the collective perception of traditional African beauty (Runako).\r\n\r\nThe project aims to further contribute to Africa\u2019s cultural capital using digital art as a medium."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_cta","bgcolor":"has-bg-blue","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"cta_link":{"type":"url","value":"https:\/\/schloss-post.com\/category\/runako-ghosted\/","title":"","target":"0"},"cta_txt":"Runako by Dananayi Muwanigwa","cta_button_txt":"Visit the Project"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=12247"},{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=12247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}