Anatomy of a Revolution: Azawad, 2014

The artwork pledge

• QUALITY EDUCATION
• GENDER EQUALITY
• DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
• REDUCED INEQUALITIES
• CLIMATE ACTION
• LIFE BELOW WATER
• LIFE ON LAND
• PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS
• PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS

Tags

• Africa
• Architecture
• Collective Memory
• Collectivism
• Colonialism
• Communism
• Community
• Democracy
• Dystopia
• Environmental Justice
• Europe
• Geopolitics
• Global South
• History
• Ideology
• Installation
• Judith Butler
• Labor
• Performance Art
• Postcolonialism
• Power Structure
• Propaganda
• Social
• The Netherlands
• Utopia
• Video Art
• Works on Paper

About this artwork

Azawad is a stateless state in the northern region of Mali, declared independent by the political and military organization National Liberation Movement of Azawad (MNLA) after an uprising in 2012. Although not recognized by any other state in the world, their claim of independence is an outcome of a lengthy, conflict-ridden struggle with and against the legacy of French colonialism in Africa. Led by the Kel Tamasheq (“those who speak the language of Tamasheq,” in the western world better known as the “Tuareg”), the movement strives toward the realization of the right to self-determination for multiethnic populations, including the Songhai, Fula, and Arab peoples from the Sahara and Sahel regions.

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