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During her participation in OCA’s International Visitor Programme, art historian and newly appointed curator of international art at Tate Modern Elvira Dyangani Ose will present the lecture ‘Poetics of the Infra-ordinary’. This lecture is the first in a series of talks and discussions OCA will host in 2012 relating to contemporary art, society and politics throughout Africa in order to further explore dialogues initiated within ‘Condition Report’, a symposium organised by Raw Material Company in Dakar, Senegal.

Elvira Dyangani Ose was recently appointed curator of international art at Tate Modern, London, UK. She is a founding member of the Laboratory for Oral Resources in Equatorial Guinea and member of the research group Afroeuropeans at the University of León, Spain. As a curator she developed several interdisciplinary projects, focusing on recovering collective memories, interventions in public space or urban ethnography. As a specialist in contemporary African art she has been a guest professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain, and has taken part in lecture cycles addressing African artistic production and contemporary culture.