Wanuri Kahiu: Fun, fierce and fantastical African art
ワヌリ・カヒウ: 楽しく、力強くて突飛なアフリカン・アート
Wanuri Kahiu wants to curate, commission and create art that celebrates fun, fierce and frivolous Africa. Full bio
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she'd tell the craziest stories
おかしなお話を聞かせてくれました
with her overactive imagination.
とても独創的に話してくれたのです
was that if you eat a lot of salt,
塩分を摂り過ぎると
脚から上へと逆流し
with science fiction,
SFのお話で
my own science fiction and fantasy,
物語を書き始めると
was considered un-African.
考えられることに驚きました
と問うてきました
where only serious things happen.
起こらない深刻な場所である
someone will always ask,
必ず誰かがこう尋ねます
真の問題である―
どう向き合っているのか?」と
that want to go to space
ナイロビ発の宇宙を目指すポップバンドや
突拍子もなく
飛んでいきそうな
(アフロバブルガム)」です
agenda art isn't important;
重要でないとは言いません
that write about HIV and radicalization
女性器の切除を描いた映画や
重要なアートですが
that comes out of the continent.
アートであってはなりません
is still being realized.
今なお現実なのです
on developmental aid.
開発支援に依存しています
政治的主張のツールになるのです
one image of ourselves for so long
長く目にしすぎて
いるのかもしれません
新たな方法が必要です
その一つです
推進する動きです
that is not policy-driven
推進する動きです
あるためには
for its potential poverty porn pitfalls.
陥りがちな落とし穴にはまってはいないか
that are similar to the Bechdel test,
テストで試すべきです
2. 言葉を交わし
話題にしているか]
in this piece of fiction healthy?
登場人物は健康か?
and not in need of saving?
支援を必要としていないか?
人生を謳歌しているか?
to two or more of these questions,
「はい」と答えられたら
images of Africans who were vibrant
生き生きとして
送っているアフリカ人を
どう考えるでしょうか?
we're worthy of more happiness?
考えたり
through our shared joy?
考えたりするのではないでしょうか?
こうしたことを考えます
that give me immeasurable joy,
人々や場所を思って
登場するのは
everything to save plants
植物を守ったり
未来の少女たちです
in this current splintered world
幸せは特権であるのは分かっています
requires diligence.
努力が必要です
in creating, curating and commissioning
アフロバブルガム・アートを
for a different view of the world,
希望が生まれるかもしれません
母親のブラックユーモアで
fierce and frivolous art
突拍子もないアートを
unseriously African.
名の下に表現するという見方です
than you can imagine.
たくさんいるのですから
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Wanuri Kahiu - Filmmaker, writerWanuri Kahiu wants to curate, commission and create art that celebrates fun, fierce and frivolous Africa.
Why you should listen
Born in Nairobi, TED Fellow Wanuri Kahiu is part of the new generation of African filmmakers. Her films have received international acclaim and have been screened in more than 100 film festivals around the world. To date, Kahiu has written and directed six films and is working on her second feature length film.
Kahiu's first feature film, From a Whisper, based on the real events surrounding the 1998 twin bombings of US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, won Best Narrative Feature in 2010 at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles as well as five awards at the African Movie Academy Award, including Best Director and Best Screenplay.
In 2009 Wanuri produced TV documentary For Our Land about Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor Wangari Maathai for MNET, a pan-African cable station. In 2010, her short science fiction Pumzi premiered at Sundance and went on to win best short film at Cannes and the silver at Carthage Film Festival in Tunisia. Pumzi also earned Kahiu the Citta di Venezia 2010 award in Venice, Italy. She is currently in post production on her second feature film, Rafiki, as well as a feature length documentary Ger about UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Ger Duany.
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