A panel discussion programmed around the new Chisenhale Gallery commission, Kibuuka Omumbaale by Wakaliga Uganda. The symposium explores Wakaliga Uganda’s reappropriation and subversion of the figure of the superhero and other film genre conventions as a means of engaging with the cultural residues of global power struggles.
This panel discussion introduces the superhero film genre as a shared pop-cultural convention that circulates globally, taking Wakaliga Uganda’s framing of the Buganda warrior Kibuuka Omumbaale as its starting point. It explores how cultural figures and conventions are reproduced and transformed through different forms of mediation and exchange, and how they are reinterpreted through local histories, aesthetics and political concerns.
The discussion will be joined by film scholars Dr Iain Robert Smith and Dr Samantha Iwowo, film curator Nadia Denton, and chaired by film and literature scholar Dr Sarah Jilani.
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