This event is part of Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis’ Annual Conference, this year titled “Wayward Visuality: The Question of Violence and Liberation”.  

Conchilia’s images of the combatants wretchedly dressed while marching with sticks instead of guns attracted the attention of the international community on the oppression of the Angolan people and the heroism of the rebels. Her journey through Angola resulted in the book Guerra di Popolo in Angola, a photo reportage realised together with the MPLA partisans (1969), and the documentary on the struggle for liberation titled A Proposito dell’Angoloa (1971).

On June 3rd, Augusta’s film will be screened (not in its entirety) to open a discussion to think about visual culture as wayward in its work to refuse systems of oppression. Where the wayward is understood as that which threatens structures of oppression and power, through one’s deviance from oppressive systems and making a commitment to living an emancipated futurity now. A Proposito dell’Angoloa provides an opportunity to untangle questions of witnessing and responsibility.