The symposium will reflect on the exhibition, with contributions from artists, students, and scholars.

In his 2016 essay Afrotopia, Senegalese scholar Felwine Sarr posits the African continent of the 21st century as poised to become “an active utopia” that engages critically with the past and draws extensively on and cultivates Africa’s own indigenous resources, both natural and cultural. Rather than describe what Afrotopia will be, Sarr foregrounds the multifaceted work required to first imagine it by focusing on what he calls “Afrotopos” or “Africa’s Atopos.”