The belief that the societal symptom of 'post-truth politics' might be an indicator of a failure to engage with a multiplicity of perspectives (especially those emerging from the Global South), which challenge the predominant narrative of Western superiority, motivates this research. My project will analyse a variety of artistic positions from the Black diaspora against the backdrop of their potential to force a mode of resistance against essentialist thinking in an era that has been labeled as "post-truth" or “post-democracy”. There is reason to suspect that this era is characterised by an unwillingness to engage with the co-existence of multiple conceptions of truth, which might explicate why those facts conceived as challenges to Western supremacy are dismissed, e.g. through strategies such as “fake news”. Focusing on the visual and discursive strategies of selected art influenced by the aesthetics of the Black diaspora, I will explore their countercultural and political potential. I will emphasise the notion of the ‘dialogical’: to what extent does the art of the Black diaspora promote (visual) discourses, which are shaped by the participation of multiple voices and divergent perspectives? My hypothesis is that the dialogical art of the Black diaspora contributes to the capacity to bear ambiguities and is hence essential to countering ‘post-truth’.

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