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Filip De Boeck: Acupuncturing the City through ethnography and photography: Cases from Congo
Anthropologist Filip De Boeck (University of Leuven, Belgium) has conducted extensive field research in both rural and urban communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1987. His most recent book (co-authored with photographer Sammy Baloji) is ¿Suturing the City. Living Together in Congo¿s Urban Worlds¿ (London: Autograph ABP, 2016).Other book publications include ¿Kinshasa. Tales of the Invisible City¿, a joint book project with photographer Marie-Françoise Plissart (Ghent/ Tervuren: Ludion / Royal Museum of Central Africa, 2004) and ¿Makers and Breakers. Children and Youth in Postcolonial Africa¿, which he co-edited with Alcinda Honwana (Oxford: James Currey, 2005).De Boeck also curated several exhibitions, including the award-winning ¿Kinshasa: The Imaginary City¿ , for the ninth International Architecture Biennial in Venice, and is also active as a filmmaker (e.g. his 2010 documentary Cemetery State, a 70 minute long film which examines urban youth¿s politics of death in a Kinshasa graveyard. More recently he also co-authored the video-installation ¿The Tower. A Concrete Utopia¿ (2015)
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