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The Less Good Idea of How To Curate Controversial Animated Images

April 5, 2026
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“The Less Good Idea of How To Curate Controversial Animated Images”
Monica Heintz (visiting professor)
April 9, 2026
WCP 5.118, 5:00pm

© The Center for the Less Good Idea in Johannesbourg

How to share the unshareable? When digging into French colonial images and films about Africa as part of a collective project on Controversial animated images, we knew the answer to this question was not going to be easy. As European researchers working in collaboration with African researchers, we were conflicted: discovering this forgotten, even concealed material with some sense of joy, while painfully aware of its divisive potential. But through collaboration with South African and Beninese artists, we started to speak about it and envisage its sharing, morally and intellectually freed due to their one rule inspired by a Twsana proverb: “When the good doctor can’t cure you, find the less good doctor.” 

This talk is part of Archival Ecologies, a series organized by Maria Fernandez Pello and Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo