About
Art for Humanity, AFH, hosted by the Durban University of Technology’s Faculty of Art & Design, is a Not for Profit, Public Benefit Organisation which engages with multidisciplinary arts practice and a wide variety of creative practice within the context of the pressing need for the centring of social justice in our contemporary moment. Based primarily in Durban, the organisation aims to support, host, document, create space for, catalyse, and help stimulate this intersection between the arts and questions of history, social transformation and social justice. We do this through hosting public seminars, reading groups, residencies, exhibitions, workshops, public events, and the creation of resource spaces through a variety of documenting and archiving work. We also aim to support and create partnerships and relationships with local, national and global entities that are willing to partner on these issues and assist in creating rich and vibrant spaces, dialogue and discourse in contemporary arts and social justice issues broadly. Situated in the urban centre of the city of Durban, our aim is to work through the interstices of this unique and important urban space that is traversed daily by millions, in order to connect to national, global, continental and diasporic communities and dynamics, seeing the arts as an important space for the articulation of imaginaries, practices, archives, ethics and logics for thinking through the urgent questions of social and historical justice and legacies and afterlives of colonialism today.
People
Ismail Farouk
Ismail Farouk is an artist, researcher, and lecturer whose practice explores the politics of food, urban space, and decolonial aesthetics. Based in Durban, he teaches Fine Art at the Durban University of Technology and is the Director of Art For Humanity.
Nicole Sarmiento
Nicole Sarmiento is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher based between Durban and Santa Cruz. She works with film, performance, and socio-spatial practices anchored in questions of land-based knowledges and cosmologies, alluvial and liquid forms of resistance and solidarity, and questions of abolition medicine. She holds a PhD in Visual and Performing Arts from the Durban University of Technology and is currently completing an MFA in Environmental Art and Social Practice at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Russel Hlongwane
Russel Hlongwane is a cultural producer based between Cape Town and Durban, South Africa. His work is located at the intersection of Heritage/ Modernity and Culture/ Tradition as they apply to black life.
Board Of Trustees: Ms. Tasneem Seedat, Ms. Jo Vosey, Ms. Bulelwa Mbele
Email us : ismail@artforhumanity.co.za
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