Leading Contemporaries: In Conversation With Ibrahim Mahama

How do we resurrect the ghost of past events in times of crisis? Can our examination of failed revolutions help us to reframe crises as material for new art? These are just two of the questions that Ibrahim Mahama addresses through his multi-faced practice as an artist, which includes The Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (Tamale, Ghana), the artist-run institution he founded in 2019.  Mahama will talk about the ideas and ethics that ground his work, including his notion of art as a catalyst for change when seen as a gift rather than a commodity.