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SUMMARY:Zeitz MOCAA & UWC Museum Fellowship Programme
DESCRIPTION:ASAI and AFH will host a presentation of the museum fellowship programme run by Zeitz Mocaa & UWC\, at the Art Resource Centre (AFH)\, 10 May\, 12:30-14:00. \n2025 Open Call_ZM and UWC Museum Fellowship Programme Text Copy.docx (1) \n 
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/zeitz-mocaa-uwc-museum-fellowship-programme/
LOCATION:Art For Humanity\, City Campus\, DUT\, Anton Lembede Street\, Durban\, Kwa-Zulu Natal\, 4001\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20250228T120000
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DTSTAMP:20260507T105544
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SUMMARY:Cedric Nunn Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:Cedric Nunn is an award-winning documentary photographer and artist based in Mangethe on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast. Nunn began making photographs in 1982 and joined the Johannesburg based photographic association and agency Afrapix in the same year. Nunn was a longstanding member of Aprapix and continued to work with the agency until it closed in 1990. As an independent documentary photographer and artist\, his work has been showcased in galleries and museums in South Africa and abroad. In 2011\, he won the first FNB Joburg Art Fair Award\, and in 2016 the eThekwini Living Legends Award. The talk will be part of launching the African Documentary Photography Archive Initiative (ADPAI). \nhttps://cedricnunn.co.za/ \nAfrican Documentary Photography Archive Initiative (ADPAI) \nADPAI is a project of Art for Humanity\, hosted at the Faculty of Art and Design\, Durban University of Technology (DUT). The project exists to meet the overwhelming need to digitize and make available the images of African documentary photographers\, especially those who emerged in the 1980s and produced images of that all-important decade of transition in Southern Africa. Many of these photographers were independent or worked in collectives and agencies which were independent. Their negatives (produced in analogue format in a pre-digital age\, and a few prints) are largely not scanned and thus unavailable electronically\, ensuring that these important images are not in the national and global memory and consciousness.
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/cedric-nunn-artist-talk/
LOCATION:Art For Humanity\, City Campus\, DUT\, Anton Lembede Street\, Durban\, Kwa-Zulu Natal\, 4001\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20241015T120000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20241015T140000
DTSTAMP:20260507T105544
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SUMMARY:Rafs Mayet Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:Rafs Mayet\, Cedric Nunn at Afrapix darkroom\, circa 1985 \nBorn and raised in the vibrant Warwick Triangle\, Rafs Mayet attended Melbourne Primary and Umbilo High Schools. After matriculating\, he embarked on a varied career path\, exploring roles as a burner/welder in shipyards\, a computer operator\, a trainee electrician at SASOL\, a roadie for various bands\, and a program producer for Treasure Tshabalala at Capital Radio. In 1983\, Mayet found his true calling in photography\, learning the craft under the mentorship of Omar Badsha in his darkroom. \nAfter marrying\, Mayet relocated to East London\, where he worked as a computer operator and trainee storeman at CDA\, a manufacturer for Mercedes-Benz and Honda\, for approximately eight months. He then transitioned to the darkroom at the local newspaper\, the Daily Dispatch—affectionately nicknamed “the Daily Disgrace” by locals. \nBy the end of the 1980s\, Mayet moved to Johannesburg\, where he managed Kippie’s Jazz Club for eight months and later joined the Afrapix photographic collective. Upon returning to Durban\, he became a photographer for the alternative newspaper The New African\, leaving on the historic day that Nelson Mandela was released from prison—a moment he humorously refers to as his own liberation. Since then\, Mayet has embraced the freelance lifestyle\, which he aptly describes as a euphemism for being “unemployable” due to the unpredictability of creative work. \nAs a member of Afrapix\, Mayet participated in numerous group exhibitions both locally and internationally\, including the Zabalaza Festival in London and the Photo Biennale in Mali\, Rotterdam\, France\, Japan\, and more. His passion for music led him to focus on capturing musicians on film following the dawn of democracy in 1994\, resulting in an extensive collection that he is currently organizing and archiving. \nNotably\, Mayet was the first to exhibit at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival in 1999 and went on to curate and coordinate the Duotone Gallery\, a segment of the festival\, for 15 years. His work is included in the South African National Gallery in Cape Town\, the Durban Art Gallery collection\, and various private collections worldwide. \nWhile he still takes photographs occasionally\, Mayet acknowledges a decline in work due to the rise of cell phone cameras. Nowadays\, he cherishes time spent with his grandchildren and immerses himself in books\, continuing the legacy of his father\, Ike Mayet\, who founded “Ike’s Books” over 35 years ago with Professor Vishnu Padayachee. \nAfrican Documentary Photography Archive Initiative (ADPAI) \nADPAI is a project of Art for Humanity\, hosted at the Faculty of Art and Design\, Durban University of Technology (DUT). The project exists to meet the overwhelming need to digitize and make available the images of African documentary photographers\, especially those who emerged in the 1980s and produced images of that all-important decade of transition in Southern Africa. Many of these photographers were independent or worked in collectives and agencies which were independent. Their negatives (produced in analogue format in a pre-digital age\, and a few prints) are largely not scanned and thus unavailable electronically\, ensuring that these important images are not in the national and global memory and consciousness.
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/rafs-mayet-artist-talk/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240521T120000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240521T130000
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SUMMARY:Alka Dass Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n \nAlka Dass. Transdisciplinary artist based in Durban\, South Africa.\nI strings beads of storytelling\, myth\, memory\, trauma and identity through the lens of belonging and migration. These themes present themselves through cyanotypes\, thread\, found materials\, personal family archives\, and modes of making that are often glossed over as craft or as dated feminine pastimes. Weaving the quiet and quotidian\, my tapestries aim to tap into the realm of the mythical and symbolic as a tool for exploring the hidden depths of the mind and unlocking the secrets of the subconscious.
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/alka-dass-artist-talk/
LOCATION:Art For Humanity\, City Campus\, DUT\, Anton Lembede Street\, Durban\, Kwa-Zulu Natal\, 4001\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240509T120000
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SUMMARY:Deseni Soobben Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:Forced Removals: Newslands\, Durban\, 1985 \nDeseni Soobben teaches Photojournalism in the Journalism Programme at Durban University of Technology. Whilst studying Photography at DUT\, she photographed sports events for The Graphic newspaper. Soobben then joined the Afrapix Collective with Cedric Nunn\, Rafs Mayet\, Omar Badsha and Paul Weinberg\, to name a few. She also worked at the Durban City Press Office alongside Sbu Mngadi and Fred Khumalo\, travelling and covering the political and social scenes of KZN. More recently Soobben’s documentary work has been exhibited at artSPACE Gallery\, at the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Between States of Emergency exhibition and at the Tate Museum in London. The talk will be part of launching the African Documentary Photography Archive Initiative (ADPAI). \nAfrican Documentary Photography Archive Initiative (ADPAI) \nADPAI is a project of Art for Humanity\, hosted at the Faculty of Art and Design\, Durban University of Technology (DUT). The project exists to meet the overwhelming need to digitize and make available the images of African documentary photographers\, especially those who emerged in the 1980s and produced images of that all-important decade of transition in Southern Africa. Many of these photographers were independent or worked in collectives and agencies which were independent. Their negatives (produced in analogue format in a pre-digital age\, and a few prints) are largely not scanned and thus unavailable electronically\, ensuring that these important images are not in the national and global memory and consciousness.
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/1052/
LOCATION:Art For Humanity\, City Campus\, DUT\, Anton Lembede Street\, Durban\, Kwa-Zulu Natal\, 4001\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Workshop: Zakes Mda
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to join us for a creative writing workshop by Professsor Zakes Mda\, hosted in collaboration with the Centre for Creative Arts\, Time of the Writer Festival 2024. \nPROFESSOR ZAKES MDA is a South African\, Lesotho and Appalachian American African writer\, painter\, filmmaker\, and music composer. He holds an MFA (Theatre) and an MA (Telecommunications) from Ohio University\, and a PhD from the University of Cape Town. He has been awarded honorary doctorates in literature by the University of Cape Town\, Wits University\, and the University of the Free State; in technology by the Central University of Technology; and in art by Dartmouth College and Durban University of Technology. He has published 25 books\, eleven of which are novels and the rest collections of plays\, poetry and a monograph on the theory and practice of theatre-for-development. His paintings have been exhibited in South Africa\, Lesotho and the USA and are in collections in those countries and in Spain and Sweden. His writings have been translated into 22 languages\, including Estonian\, Catalan\, Korean\, Serbian\, German\, Swedish\, Dutch\, Turkish\, Norwegian\, and Italian. They have won many awards in South Africa\, the USA and Italy\, including the Amstel Playwright of the Year Award\, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa\, the M-Net Prize\, Sanlam Prizes (twice)\, The Pringle Award\, the Sunday Times Literary Prize (twice)\, the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award\, Premio Narrativa Sud del Mondo\, the University of Johannesburg Literary Prize\, and the American Library Association Notable Book. He is a recipient of Ikhamanga Order in Silver\, a national award of the South African government. He commutes between the USA\, where he teaches creative writing at John Hopkins University and is Professor Emeritus at Ohio University\, and South Africa\, where he is a beekeeper in the Eastern Cape (running a project he established in 2000 with rural women)\, and a director of NeoZane\, an animation film production company. \nTo RSVP and for more information contact:\nIsmail Farouk: ismail@artforhumanity.co.za \n  \n 
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/creative-writing-workshop-zakes-mda/
LOCATION:Art For Humanity\, City Campus\, DUT\, Anton Lembede Street\, Durban\, Kwa-Zulu Natal\, 4001\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20211008T180000
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SUMMARY:Aesthetics
DESCRIPTION:As Sylvia Wynter suggested nearly three decades ago\, a radical rethinking of the category of aesthetics is a crucial\, if woefully neglected\, task for all of us who have been given to the refusal of modern catastrophe. This conversation between Denise Ferreira da Silva\, Rizvana Bradley\, Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar (of the Otolith Group)\, Jota Mombaça\, and Gabi Ngcobo coincides with an experimental collaboration between Da Silva and Bradley\, “Four Theses on Aesthetics\,” published in the September issue of e-flux. \n  \n\nhttps://www.e-flux.com/journal/120/416146/four-theses-on-aesthetics/ \n\n  \nBuilding upon Bradley’s inquiries into the racially gendered labor concealed within the putatively autonomous totality of the work of art\, and upon Da Silva’s critique of the modern principles of “separability\, determinacy\, and sequentiality\,” Da Silva and Bradley’s essay deconstructs the framework of aesthetic judgement that has predominated since Immanuel Kant. Endeavoring to rethink the relationship of the aesthetic to the organization of the modern world\, “Four Theses on Aesthetics” sketches the contours of an alternative theory of Blackness\, aesthetics\, and the work of art. \n  \nThis Sojourner Project session on aesthetics enters into the fray of these difficult problematics as a point of speculative departure\, in the hope of collectively contributing to the ongoing dissolution of the boundaries between philosophy\, artistic experimentation\, and abolitionist praxis. \n  \nThe Sojourner Project is a mobile Black Studies academy initiated by the Practicing Refusal Collective\, an international Black feminist forum of artists and scholars dedicated to initiating dialogues on blackness\, anti-black violence and black futurity in the twenty-first century. www.thesojournerproject.org \n* * * \nHosted by the Cogut Institute for the Humanities’ Black Visualities Initiative under the leadership of Tina Campt\, and presented collaboratively with The Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD) at the University of Johannesburg and Art for Humanity at Durban University of Technology\, with the support of the Yale Center for the Study of Race\, Indigeneity\, and Transnational Migration (RITM).
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/aesthetics/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20210225T190000
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SUMMARY:Sovereignty
DESCRIPTION:Though sovereignty has become something of a disavowed category within Black Studies\, it remains conceptually and materially pertinent for Black people across many locations (for those in the so-called “post”-colonial world\, of course\, and also for those in majority Black spaces). Many of us are obsessed with sovereignty and with what sovereignty feels like\, but this obsession is not one that is framed by the state\, or within the parameters of its institutions. For us\, the point of bearing witness to state violence (and other forms of violence)\, of creating different archives and affective relationships to violence\, is to chart new terrain upon which sovereignty can be elaborated and radiated. We are always imagining something that looks like sovereignty\, and if it feels out of reach we are compelled to reach toward it anyway. Sovereignty cannot be disavowed as either false consciousness or ontological impossibility\, as these frames rely too heavily upon masculinist notions of revolution and human-ness. Instead\, we want to privilege the ephemeral\, the performative\, the affective\, the non-linear and unexpected ways something that feels like sovereignty circulates and is transmitted from one to another. This sovereignty is not an event; there is not a moment when we will be able to point to something and identify its achievement. Instead\, it is constantly in process; it is both internal and communal; it both frames and enacts love and response-ability.\n\n\nThe Sojourner Project is a mobile Black Studies academy initiated by the Practicing Refusal Collective\, an international Black feminist forum of artists and scholars dedicated to initiating dialogues on blackness\, anti-black violence and black futurity in the twenty-first century.\n\n\n\n\n\nVisit:  www.thesojournerproject.org \n\n* * *\nHosted by the Cogut Institute for the Humanities’ Black Visualities Initiative under the leadership of Tina Campt\, and presented collaboratively with The Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD) at the University of Johannesburg and Art for Humanity at Durban University of Technology\, with the support of the Yale Center for the Study of Race\, Indigeneity\, and Transnational Migration (RITM).\n\n\n\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/sovereignty/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20201120T190000
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SUMMARY:FREQUENCIES OF BLACKNESS | a listening session
DESCRIPTION:Art For Humanity  is excited to announce the first activation of The Sojourner  Project – South Africa\, a mobile black studies academy presented by the Practicing Refusal collective.https://ritm.yale.edu \nZOOM Listening session: 20 November 2020 | 7pm SAST / 12pm EST \nREGISTER HERE \nWhat does frequency offer us as a framework for understanding black life? What insights does it provide for responding to anti-blackness? And how might it help us to see\, hear\, and feel the power of black life’s irrepressible drive toward creating a different kind of futurity?\nAt a moment of transnational racial reckoning\, this listening session explores black frequency as a site of possibility. It engages black frequency in multiple forms: as a sonic space the ranges from silence to deafening\, dissonant noise; as a register of rapture and spirituality; as a temporal feedback loop of memory\, repetition\, and renewal; as a dynamic relation of call and response or chorus and verse; as a haptic and kinetic space of contact and connection across the African continent and its various diasporas. \nFrequencies of Blackness is an invitation to explore black frequency through dialogue on sight\, sound\, memory\, movement\, and connection. The conveners of the session\, Tina Campt\, Zara Julius\, Jenn Nkiru and Alexander Weheliye\, have assembled a collection of sonic and haptic\, written and visual texts that enact black frequency in a multitude of ways. These can be accessed at www.thesojournerproject.org (website to be launched on Monday 16 November 2020). Join us in a space where we will listen and learn\, screen and spin\, talk and reflect. \n\nThe Sojourner Project\nThe Sojourner Project is a mobile Black Studies academy initiated by the Practicing Refusal Collective\, an international Black feminist forum of artists and scholars dedicated to initiating dialogues on blackness\, anti-black violence and black futurity in the twenty-first century. \nStructured as a mobile academy that intentionally aims to exceed the literal and figurative walls of the university\, The Sojourner Project convenes transnational and diasporic gatherings in which conversations\, workshops and art activations create multi-directional encounters with histories of struggle and practices of refusal that have emerged in different black communities. The intention of each convening is to respond to the cultural\, intellectual\, political\, and social landscapes of African and African diasporic localities through collaborative engagements between members of the Practicing Refusal Collective and resident artists\, scholars and community and cultural workers. Our goal is a dialogue on national and regional inflections of anti-blackness (including black-on-black violence and Afrophobia)\, the resulting formations of black precarity and fungibility\, and the possibilities for creating alternative futures. Our dialogues seek to  formulate critical toolkits for exploring the role of Black Studies in creating intellectual frameworks for black communities to mobilize in the struggle for social transformation. \nThe first international convening of The Sojourner Project was held in Paris in 2018 and hosted by the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination at the Paris Global Center at Reid Hall. The Sojourner Project Paris: Dialogues on Black Precarity\, Fungibility and Futurity featured panel discussions\, a film screening\, a poetry reading and collaborative working group sessions. The event welcomed over three hundred participants and was jointly funded by the Barnard Center for Research on Women\, the Columbia Center for the Study of Social Difference\, The Institute for Gender Studies\, and The Institute for Ideas and Imagination. \nThe Sojourner Project South Africa was scheduled to launch in 2020 as a dual-city programme in Durban and Johannesburg. Due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic and following extensive engagement with local partners and communities\, the envisioned program of diasporic exchanges\, screenings\, performances and workshops has now been reimagined as an interactive\, online\, community-based Black Studies curriculum. With the help of design collective Black Chalk & Co\, The Sojourner Project South Africa will convene virtually via thesojournerproject.org from November 2020 through Spring 2021. The website will support  a series of scheduled activations including listening sessions\, screenings\, pop-up learning modules and workshops\, hosted by members of the Practising Refusal Collective and collaborating artists\, collectives\, curators and scholars from Durban\, Johannesburg and across the continent and diaspora. \nAnticipating the official launch of The Sojourner Project website in 2021\, our first release is Frequency – an online listening session and workshop hosted by Tina Campt and Alexander G. Weheliye of the Practicing Refusal Collective\, with South African artist and vinyl selector Zara Julius and award-winning London-based artist and director Jenn Nkiru. \n– – – – – – – – – – \nThe Sojourner Project – South Africa is supported by Art for Humanity\, Durban University of Technology; The Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD) (link); Black Visualities Initiative\, Cogut Institute for the Humanities\, Brown University (link); and the Center for the Study of Race\, Indigeneity\, and Transnational Migration\, Yale University (link). \n\nThe Practicing Refusal Collective\nFormed in 2015 by Professors Tina Campt and Saidiya Hartman\, the Practicing Refusal Collective (PR Collective) is an international Black feminist forum dedicated to initiating new dialogues on blackness\, anti-black violence\, and black futurity in the twenty-first century. \nThe Collective comprises sixteen members from multiple disciplines of the humanities\, including two Columbia faculty\, four Barnard faculty\, and ten additional members from nine universities in the US and Canada. \nThe group’s point of departure is a set of overlapping interests and investments in theorizing black agency in the face of contemporary circumstances of imperilled blackness and vulnerable black bodies. The public events and working group sessions hosted by the Collective have created a cutting-edge platform for thinking through refusal as a generative rubric for understanding everyday practices of struggle\, often obscured by an emphasis on collective acts of resistance. Convened in response to the proliferating forms of violence facing black populations in the US and in the African diaspora\, the mission of the PR Collective is to articulate black feminist strategies for addressing the precarious state of black communities resulting from policies that treat black bodies as disposable and expendable – a state of duress we describe as black fungibility. The ‘practice of refusal’ referenced in the group’s title names its rejection of this current status quo as liveable. It is a refusal to accept black precarity as inevitable\, and a refusal to embrace the terms of diminished subjecthood through which black subjects are presented. We seek instead to develop strategies for confronting black fungibility and creating alternative possibilities for living otherwise. \nIn 2018\, the Collective launched an ambitious program of transnational conversations under the title The Sojourner Project. The Sojourner Project expands the conversations begun by the PR Collective by creating multi-directional dialogues in a range of sites in Africa and its diasporas with local artists\, activists\, scholars and thought leaders working to develop their own strategies for addressing black precarity\, fungibility\, and anti-black violence. \nMembers: \nRizvana Bradley\, Dionne Brand\, Tina Campt (VIAD RA)\, Denise Ferreira da Silva\, Kaiama Glover\, Saidiya Hartman\, Arthur Jafa\, Tavia Nyong’o\, Darieck Scott\, Christina Sharpe\, Maboula Soumahoro\, Deborah Thomas (VIAD RA)\, Françoise Verges\, Alexander G. Weheliye\, and Mabel O. Wilson (VIAD RA)
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/frequencies-of-blackness-a-listening-session/
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SUMMARY:Film screening of Ifu Elimnyama
DESCRIPTION:Film screening of Ifu Elimnyama: The Dark Cloud and interactive presentation by Russel Hlongwane \nIfu Elimnyama: The Dark Cloud is a trans-media project that spans the disciplines of film\, performance and text by Russel Hlongwane (Durban). The work takes Zulu cosmology\, folklore and systems of transcendence and places them within a digital framework. Ifu Elimnyama attempts to converge contrasting lineages of knowledge production (western and indigenous) through science\, folklore\, the digital and cosmology. The work centres around themes of Afro-pessimism\, futurity\, neo-capitalistic (African) states and invites an ontological approach to the digital culture. It currently exists as a narrative-led performance piece\, an experimental film and critical text\, with other iterations under production. The film was given the Jury Award at Sharjah Film Platform (SFP)\, in November 2019. \nRussel Hlongwane is a cultural producer and creative industries consultant based in Durban\, South Africa. His work is located at the intersection of Heritage/ Modernity and Culture/ Tradition as it applies to various disciplines of artistic practice. His said practice includes cultural research\, creative producing\, design\, curatorship and the creative economy. \nThere will be a screening of the film\, Ifu Elimnyama: The Dark Cloud\, with an interactive presentation lead by Russel Hlongwane. This will be followed by a Q&A session. \nLight lunch will be served.
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/film-screening-of-ifu-elimnyama/
LOCATION:Art For Humanity\, City Campus\, DUT\, Anton Lembede Street\, Durban\, Kwa-Zulu Natal\, 4001\, South Africa
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191025
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191028
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SUMMARY:Critical Epistemologies Workshop
DESCRIPTION:A workshop for emerging and established visual arts writers. Includes inputs and discussion on writing trends and challenges\, and artists speaking about their work. First two days are open to the public\, the final day is a closed session. \nPROGRAMME : \nNB DAYS 1 & 2 open to the public. \nFriday 25 October \n\n8:30 TEA\, REGISTRATION \n9:00 OPENING REMARKS & INTRODUCTIONS \n9:30 CRITICAL EPISTEMOLOGIES I: Writing South/African/art history\, from the colonial to the postcolonial – trends and challenges\nPanellists: Mduduzi M Mduduzi Xakaza\, Jessica Draper\, Mario Pissarra\nModerator: Juliette Leeb-du Toit \n11:00 TEA \n11:30 CRITICAL PRACTICE I: Artists\, anti-apartheid and post-apartheid\nPanellists: Thami Jali (tbc)\, Sfiso Ka-Mkame \, Cedric Nunn\nModerator: Russel Hlongwane \n13:00 LUNCH \n14:00 CRITICAL PRACTICE II: Translations of street art\nPanellists: Ewok\, Trev Seven\, Dane Stops\nModerator: Russel Hlongwane \n15:30 CLOSING REMARKS \nSaturday 26 October \n8:30 TEA \n9:00 REFLECTIONS ON DAY 1 DELIBERATIONS \n09:30 CRITICAL EPISTEMOLOGIES II: Anti-colonial\, postcolonial and decolonial theory: how does this help me write art history?\nPanellists: Greer Valley\, Lonwabo Kilani\, Mario Pissarra\nModerator: Nomusa Makhubu \n11:00 TEA \n11.30 CRITICAL PRACTICE II: Imaging the post-nation\nPanellists: Themba Shibase \, Mthobisi Maphumulo\, Kristin NG-Yang\nModerator: Blessing Xaba \n13:00 LUNCH \n14:00 CRITICAL EPISTEMOLOGIES III: Interdisciplinary methodologies in writing art history – trends and challenges\nPanellists: Nomusa Makhubu\, Greer Valley\, Ismail Farouk\nModerator: Mario Pissarra \n15:30 CLOSING REMARKS \nSunday 27 October \nCLOSED SESSION FOR WRITERS & MENTORS
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/critical-epistemologies-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20191008T120000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20191008T140000
DTSTAMP:20260507T105544
CREATED:20200426T091529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200426T091632Z
UID:683-1570536000-1570543200@artforhumanity.co.za
SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Thulile Gamedze
DESCRIPTION:Thulile Gamedze (b1992) is an independent cultural worker\, operating as an artist\, writer\, curator and member of the art collective iQhiya\, based in Johannesburg. Her master’s research around ‘impossible paradigms’ locates local histories of collective pedagogy and cultural work as clues towards creating time-space pockets that function out of reach of coloniality and its capitalist logic. She has published in local and international arts-based publications and catalogues as well as on a number of news platforms. Thuli’s practice is concerned with education\, collectivity and social life\, and the potential of collaborative knowledge production to sustain forms of radical love and care.
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/artist-talk-thulile-gamedze/
LOCATION:Art For Humanity\, City Campus\, DUT\, Anton Lembede Street\, Durban\, Kwa-Zulu Natal\, 4001\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190911T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190911T130000
DTSTAMP:20260507T105544
CREATED:20200426T084240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200426T091039Z
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SUMMARY:The Behavior Of Public Art
DESCRIPTION:This is an invitation to students\, artists\, faculty and the public to join us at AFH this coming Wednesday for a roundtable conversation on public art in Durban. This invitation forms part of the public programme of a larger 2-day roundtable entitled ‘The behavior of Public Art” convened by cultural producer\, Russel Hlongwane\, inviting reflections on the state of public art in Durban. Conceived and convened to a loose network of practitioners working with mural art\, graffiti and studio based artists\, the roundtable invite a cross-range of artists to present different methodologies of practicing in public space given the socio-cultural historical context of Durban. Inspired by the outcome of a long-term research project ‘’The New Rules of Public Art’’ (see link below)\, this roundtable brings policymakers\, art managers\, graffiti writers\, mural artists and curators based in Durban to explore new means to produce work in public space. The New Rules Of Public Art download: \nhttps://studiotosituation.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/the_new_rule_of_public_art.pdf \nThe outcome of the round-table conversations will see the creation of a piece of public art informed by the conversations being held. Students are encouraged to participate and to be part of the conversation. \nLunch will be served.
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/the-behavior-of-public-art/
LOCATION:Art For Humanity\, City Campus\, DUT\, Anton Lembede Street\, Durban\, Kwa-Zulu Natal\, 4001\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190903T120000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190903T140000
DTSTAMP:20260507T105544
CREATED:20200426T083317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200426T083317Z
UID:675-1567512000-1567519200@artforhumanity.co.za
SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Sisipho Ngondwana
DESCRIPTION:Sisipho Ngodwana was born in Cape Town\, 1993. She completed a BFA from the Michaelis School of Fine Art\, UCT in 2015. In 2014 she was awarded the Hayden Lubisi award and she currently lives and works in Cape Town\, as an associate at Stevenson Gallery\, a member of iQhiya and a practicing artist
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/artist-talk-sisipho-ngondwana/
LOCATION:Art For Humanity\, City Campus\, DUT\, Anton Lembede Street\, Durban\, Kwa-Zulu Natal\, 4001\, South Africa
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ORGANIZER;CN="Art For Humanity":MAILTO:afh@dut.ac.za
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190807T120000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190807T130000
DTSTAMP:20260507T105544
CREATED:20190803T094242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190803T094242Z
UID:650-1565179200-1565182800@artforhumanity.co.za
SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Khanyisile Mbongwa
DESCRIPTION:Artist Talk: Stellenbosch Triennale 2020\nWhy another Triennale in Africa and why Stellenbosch? \nAbout Khanyisile Mbongwa:\nKhanyisile Mbongwa is a Cape Town based independent curator\, award winning artist and sociologist\, who works with public space\, interdisciplinary and performative practices unpacking the socio-political\, socio-economic\, socio-racial\, gender-queer and historical-contemporary complexities and nuances of the everyday. In 2018 she took up a curatorial research residency CAT.Cologne\, Germany focusing on the public sphere\, interventions and public policies. As a result curated BLUEPRINT: Where There’s Nowhere To Go\, Where Is Home? Currently she works with Norval Foundation as Adjunct Curator for Perfomative Practices and with Cape Town Carnival as Curatorial and Socio-Critical Development advisor. Mbongwa is the Chief Curator of the Stellenbosch Triennale. \nThe AFH artist talk series is free and open to all. We welcome families and children.
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/artist-talk-khanyisile-mbongwa/
LOCATION:Art For Humanity\, City Campus\, DUT\, Anton Lembede Street\, Durban\, Kwa-Zulu Natal\, 4001\, South Africa
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ORGANIZER;CN="Art For Humanity":MAILTO:afh@dut.ac.za
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190806T120000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190806T140000
DTSTAMP:20260507T105544
CREATED:20190803T093821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190803T093919Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Khanyisile Mbongwa & Mntana. Wexhwele
DESCRIPTION:Workshop: BAYEZA \nThe body explored as an archive of multi-dimensional existence where the past\, present and future are intersection of time – this evoking the body’s ancestral memory whilst projecting into the imagined future. We use visual arts\, African and ancient sounds\, movement as mediums to trace memory and imagination. \nKhanyisile Mbongwa:\nKhanyisile Mbongwa is a Cape Town based independent curator\, award winning artist and sociologist\, who works with public space\, interdisciplinary and performative practices unpacking the socio-political\, socio-economic\, socio-racial\, gender-queer and historical-contemporary complexities and nuances of the everyday. In 2018 she took up a curatorial research residency CAT.Cologne\, Germany focusing on the public sphere\, interventions and public policies. As a result curated BLUEPRINT: Where There’s Nowhere To Go\, Where Is Home? Currently she works with Norval Foundation as Adjunct Curator for Perfomative Practices and with Cape Town Carnival as Curatorial and Socio-Critical Development advisor. Mbongwa is the Chief Curator of the Stellenbosch Triennale. \nMntana.WeXhwele (Nkosenathi Ernie Koela):\nKoela creates textures of music embedded in Afrikan spirituality. Koela explores how healing practices through sound creates space that manifests spiritually and materially. He unpacks the power of traditional vibrations as a practical tool for empowering the soul’s consciousness and physical health. This he does as testament to his ancestry\, the long line/s of traditional instrumentalists\, diviners/ healers (amaGqirha namaXhwele) that run in his family\, who are in their own right\, masters of traditional Nguni music/heritage.
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/workshop-khanyisile-mbongwa-mntana-wexhwele/
LOCATION:Art For Humanity\, City Campus\, DUT\, Anton Lembede Street\, Durban\, Kwa-Zulu Natal\, 4001\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190722T090000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190724T130000
DTSTAMP:20260507T105544
CREATED:20190710T123448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190710T123448Z
UID:639-1563786000-1563973200@artforhumanity.co.za
SUMMARY:Poetry workshop with Brazilian poet\, educator and activist\, Élida Lima
DESCRIPTION:Art for Humanity will be hosting a dynamic poetry workshop for poets\, writers\, artists\, creatives\, and students at DUT and beyond. If interested\, please send an email with a short bio and contact details to Thobekile Mbanda at admin@artforhumanity.co.za. Please not that space is limited. \nThe proposed workshop aims to look at the definition and practice of poetry as an art form accessible to all; as part of this there will be a presentation\, introduction and translation of a selection of contemporary Brazilian and Latin American poetry; presentation of the process of editing books of poetry and poetry anthologies. The workshop offers a sensitive environment for learning and exchange\, and for the reading of poems\, as well as looking at performance dynamics\, games\, and games as didactic resources. We will also look at performance dynamics for creating both individual and collective poems\, editing\, publishing and beyond. \nEvent details: \nDate: 22 – 24 July 2019 (9am – 1pm) \nRSVP: Thobekile Mbanda: admin@artforhumanity.co.za. \nÉlida Lima is a writer\, editor\, activist and teacher. Born and raised in Belém\, an important capital of the Amazon\, she has lived in São Paulo she has lived in São Paulo since 2008. Lima completed a Bachelor in Social Communication from the University of Amazonia (2005)\, a Master Degree (2012) and is currently completing her PhD studies in Clinical Psychology at the Subjectivity Studies Center of PUC-SP\, under the guidance of the philosopher Peter Pál Pelbart. She is the author of Letters to Max: affective threshold of Max Martins’ work (Invisíveis Produções\, 2013)\, considered “one of the most creative and surprising essays of literary criticism in Brazil in recent years”. She is editor of the booksSinhá Rosa: poems by Maurinete Lima\, and the bestselling Antologia Trans: 30 trans\, transvestite\, and non-binary poets\, with much of the poems created in poetry workshops led by Lima. From 2014 to 2017\, she participated actively in nationally articulated feminist collectives. Currently\, she develops doctoral research in the area of intersectional feminism and racial identities. Nowadays\, she also performs Tarot therapy\, Hatha Yoga and Access® Bars.
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/poetry-workshop-with-brazilian-poet-educator-and-activist-elida-lima/
LOCATION:Art For Humanity\, City Campus\, DUT\, Anton Lembede Street\, Durban\, Kwa-Zulu Natal\, 4001\, South Africa
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ORGANIZER;CN="Art For Humanity":MAILTO:afh@dut.ac.za
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190718T120000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190718T140000
DTSTAMP:20260507T105544
CREATED:20190626T091852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190626T092449Z
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Daniel Lima
DESCRIPTION:About Daniel Lima: \nDaniel Lima is a Brazilian multimedia artist that explores design and space in the urban ambient. Coming from a trajectory of interventions and interferences in the metropolis around the world\, he uses visual resources to create unexpected and potentially deconstructive situations of the urban scenario. Close to collective works\, he developed resources in media\, racial issues and education processes in differents groups: A Revolução Não Será Televisionada\, Frente 3 de Fevereiro and Política do Impossível. \nArtist Website: www.danielcflima.com \nAll Welcome: AFH events are kid and family friendly \n*Light lunch will be served \n 
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/artist-talk-daniel-lima/
LOCATION:Art For Humanity\, City Campus\, DUT\, Anton Lembede Street\, Durban\, Kwa-Zulu Natal\, 4001\, South Africa
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ORGANIZER;CN="Art For Humanity":MAILTO:afh@dut.ac.za
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190515T120000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190515T143000
DTSTAMP:20260507T105544
CREATED:20200426T095250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200426T095456Z
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk:
DESCRIPTION:Molemo Moiloa lives and works in Johannesburg\, and has worked in various capacities at the intersection of creative practice and community organizing. Molemo’s academic work has focused on the political subjectivities of South African youth. She is also one half of the artist collaborative MADEYOULOOK\, who explore everyday popular imaginaries and their modalities for knowledge production. Up until recently\, she was Director of the Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA). She also works within the Market Photo Workshop\, the School of Arts and Social Anthropology department at the University of the Witwatersrand\, and with TML Creative Consultancy among others. Molemo has both a BA Fine Arts (cum laude) and MA Social Anthropology (cum laude) degree from WITS. MADEYOULOOK was nominated for the Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics 2016/17 at the New School\, New York. Molemo was also a Chevening Clore Fellow 2016/17\, and winner of a Vita Basadi Award for 2017. \nImage Caption:\nImage of Orlando\, Soweto circa 1950s with gardens. Included in the photography archive of Black Gardening practices accumulated for Ejaradini (2018- ongoing) by MADEYOULOOK. ©MuseumAfrica
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/artist-talk/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Art For Humanity":MAILTO:afh@dut.ac.za
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181210T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181210T200000
DTSTAMP:20260507T105544
CREATED:20190306T074249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190528T012651Z
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SUMMARY:Proclamation 73: Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:Proclamation 73 \nThe exhibition Proclamation 73 comes forth out of a project initiated by Zara Julius and Chandra Frank that explores the family archives of people racialized as coloured and indian in Durban under the 1950 Group Areas Act. Inspired by their own family histories\, Julius and Frank set out to collect family photos of everyday lived experiences. Proclamation 73 portrays narratives on the meaning of loss\, kinship and home through drawing on the family album. The presented collection includes photos of weddings\, beach days\, ballroom dance contests\, street portraits\, and other snapshots. \nThe exhibition investigates and challenges how different racial histories and segregation continue to operate within the city of Durban and its surroundings. Through weaving representations of “the everyday” together with photos of the aftermath of forced removals\, Proclamation 73 seeks to disrupt static racial categories\, especially taking into account how categories such as ‘coloured’ and ‘indian’ were used as tools of antiblackness.\nThe exhibition takes its title from the Proclamation 73\, issued in 1951\, in which indians were further categorised as a subdivision of people racialised as coloured. This further complicates the arbitrary nature of racial classification under the apartheid regime. \nProclamation 73 covers a large time period\, and takes a non-linear approach to the fragmented narratives and histories that emerge out of this project – working with archives that are rarely viewed alongside each other. Through portraying a wide variety of images\, archival materials\, and selected work from the collection of documentary Afrapix photographers Peter McKenzie and Rafs Mayet\, invites viewers to think through questions of representation\, erasure\, and intimacy. \nThere are three public events scheduled for this exhibition: \n10 December 2018: Exhibition opening with Afrapix photographers Jeeva Ragjopaul & Rafs Mayet & UZKN senior lecturer in education and gender\, Dr Bronwyn Anderson in conversation • 6 PM \n11 December 2018: A public walkabout the exhibition with the curators Zara Julius & Chandra Frank • 10 AM \n15 February 2019: Contemporary perspectives and responses in collaboration with DUT students • TBC \nAll included images are donated by Durban community members or are part of existing archival collections. Proclamation 73 has set up collaborative partnerships with the Old Court House Museum and Art for Humanity DUT in order to realise this exhibition. Proclamation 73 is a notfor-\nprofit project in partnership with the Goethe-Institut South Africa as part of the Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS). \nFor more information and press image jpegs\, please contact: zara.julius@gmail.com or chandrafrank@gmail.com \nVisiting address: Opening hours:\nDurban Art Gallery Monday – Saturday | 8am – 6pm\nSmith Street\, 2nd Floor Smith Street\nCity Hall\, Durban\, 4001 South Africa
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/proclamation-73-exhibition-opening/
LOCATION:Durban Art Gallery\, Smith Street\, 2nd Floor Smith Street\, Durban\, Kwa-Zulu Natal\, 4000\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181012T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181012T150000
DTSTAMP:20260507T105544
CREATED:20190306T070916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190528T012608Z
UID:368-1539349200-1539356400@artforhumanity.co.za
SUMMARY:Russel Hlongwane: The Flaneur
DESCRIPTION:INDLELA SEMINAR/WORKSHOP SERIES PRESENTS: \nCity Walk in downtown Durban by Russel Hlongwane \nThe city is laden with buildings\, and buildings are laden with history. The flaneur is an aimless wanderer\, in other words\, an empty wanderer. It is through this ‘’emptiness” that new readings of cities emerge. \nThe Durban CBD has experienced radical changes in the past few years\, it has transmutated in its own way despite planned methods of incremental city growth. This city has to accommodate esoteric forces\, economical forces and carry memories. The one way to map memory is to study the exterior of buildings alongside the observed forms of (foot\, vehicle and visual) traffic. There are also agents that refuse to change\, they defiant agents make for interesting narrators of activity that happen around them. This city-walk\, therefore\, aims to explore the notion of walking as map-making.
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/russel-hlongwane-the-flaneur/
LOCATION:Art For Humanity\, City Campus\, DUT\, Anton Lembede Street\, Durban\, Kwa-Zulu Natal\, 4001\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180911T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180911T140000
DTSTAMP:20260507T105544
CREATED:20190306T070601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190527T232523Z
UID:364-1536667200-1536674400@artforhumanity.co.za
SUMMARY:Artist Talk:Doung Anwar Jahangeer
DESCRIPTION:INDLELA\nLecture/Workshop Series \nYou are invited to join us for an artist talk with Doung Anwar\nJahangeer \nTuesday 11 September 12pm\nAFH Office City Campus DUT \nAbout Doung Anwar Jahangeer \ndoung anwar jahangeer is an artist/architect\, ‘Creol’Mauritian-born\, living in Durban\, South Africa. His experience of the ‘profession’ led him to broaden his definition of architecture focusing on space\, an architecturewithoutwalls. In 2000 doung conceptualised and implemented ‘The CityWalk’ initiative as a way of directly engaging and observing the flux and mutability his adopted city. His work is multi-media and and includes live performance\, film/video\, sculpture\, painting\, installation and architecture. He has collaborated with numerous international artists / organisations in Scandinavia\, Europe and numerous African countries where he has instigated projects of a diverse nature including site responsive architectural installations; ephemeral\, temporary and permanent\, that engages the urban fabric often in an openly critical and sometimes provocative manner. \nIn 2008 he co-founded dala\, an NPO focusing on experiments and initiatives which engage art/architecture for social justice.
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/364/
LOCATION:Art For Humanity\, City Campus\, DUT\, Anton Lembede Street\, Durban\, Kwa-Zulu Natal\, 4001\, South Africa
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180809T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180809T150000
DTSTAMP:20260507T105544
CREATED:20190306T070159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190527T232445Z
UID:359-1533819600-1533826800@artforhumanity.co.za
SUMMARY:
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Women’s Day at The KZNSA Gallery\, together with Art for Humanity\, on Thursday 09 August 2018 from 13h00. All are welcome to attend a Masterclass with artist Khanyisile Mbongwa.\n\nKhanyisile Mbongwa is a Gugulethu-born independent curator based in Cape Town. In 2006 she was amongst the founding members of the artist collective Gugulective. \nHer work has since allowed her to travel locally and internationally Germany\, Spain\, Pakistan\, Scotland\, New York\, Switzerland\, Belgium\, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Just to mention a few of Mbongwa’s works and awards: In 2014 she interned at GIPCA under the supervision of Jay Pather\, curated the PreLIFE talks and assisted with the general running of Life Art Festival. In 2014 she won the Africa Centre – Artist In Residency Laureate and took up residency at JIWAR in Spain in 2015. \nIn 2015 she also curated Twenty Journey\, a photographic exhibition exploring South Africa 20 years into its democracy. Mbongwa was the Special Guest at Liste Art Fair Basel 2015\, where she curated a booth with the works of South African artist Buhlebezwe Siwani\, Astrid Gebhardt and Breeze Yoko. In 2017/18 she headed and curated Puncture Points\, a projected that commissioned over 15 artists to create and exhibit works tracing the use of oil in the Western Cape. She recently completed a curatorial research residency at CAT.Cologne that engaged with public space\, public intervention and public policy. \n*Entry is free and all are welcome. Complimentary drink provided.
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/359/
LOCATION:KZNSA\, 166 Bulwer Road\, Bulwer\, Durban\, Kwa-Zulu Natal\, 4001\, South Africa
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ORGANIZER;CN="Art For Humanity":MAILTO:afh@dut.ac.za
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180808T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180808T130000
DTSTAMP:20260507T105544
CREATED:20190306T064343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190527T232408Z
UID:355-1533729600-1533733200@artforhumanity.co.za
SUMMARY:Lecture: Fallism and the Cultural Politics of Decolonisation
DESCRIPTION:INDLELA\nLecture/Workshop Series \nPlease join us for a lecture by Khanyisile Mbongwa:\nWednesday 8 August 12pm\nAFH Office City Campus DUT \nAbout Khanyisile Mbongwa: \nKhanyisile Mbongwa is a Gugulethu-born independent curator based in Cape Town. In 2006 she was amongst the founding members of the artist collective Gugulective. Her work has since allowed her to travel locally and internationally Germany\, Spain\, Pakistan\, Scotland\, New York\, Switzerland\, Belgium\, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Just to mention a few of Mbongwa’s works and awards: In 2014 she interned at GIPCA under the supervision of Jay Pather\, curated the PreLIFE talks and assisted with the general running of Life Art Festival. In 2014 she won the Africa Centre – Artist In Residency Laureate and took up residency at JIWAR in Spain in 2015. In 2015 she also curated Twenty Journey\, a photographic exhibition exploring South Africa 20 years into its democracy. Mbongwa was the Special Guest at Liste Art Fair Basel 2015\, where she curated a booth with the works of South African artist Buhlebezwe Siwani\, Astrid Gebhardt and Breeze Yoko. In 2017/18 she headed and curated Puncture Points\, a projected that commissioned over 15 artists to create and exhibit works tracing the use of oil in the Western Cape. She recently completed a curatorial research residency at CAT.Cologne that engaged with public space\, public intervention and public policy. \nMbongwa is the former Executive Director of Handspring Trust. Besides her independent curatorial project\, Mbongwa is the Adjunct Curator for Performative Practices at Norval Foundation.
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/lecture-fallism-and-the-cultural-politics-of-decolonisation/
LOCATION:Art For Humanity\, City Campus\, DUT\, Anton Lembede Street\, Durban\, Kwa-Zulu Natal\, 4001\, South Africa
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180807T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180807T140000
DTSTAMP:20260507T105544
CREATED:20190306T063604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250726T174425Z
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SUMMARY:Khanyisile Mbongwa: DUT Student Workshop
DESCRIPTION:About Khanyisile Mbongwa: \nKhanyisile Mbongwa is a Gugulethu-born independent curator based in Cape Town. In 2006 she was amongst the founding members of the artist collective Gugulective. Her work has since allowed her to travel locally and internationally Germany\, Spain\, Pakistan\, Scotland\, New York\, Switzerland\, Belgium\, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Just to mention a few of Mbongwa’s works and awards: In 2014 she interned at GIPCA under the supervision of Jay Pather\, curated the PreLIFE talks and assisted with the general running of Life Art Festival. In 2014 she won the Africa Centre – Artist In Residency Laureate and took up residency at JIWAR in Spain in 2015. In 2015 she also curated Twenty Journey\, a photographic exhibition exploring South Africa 20 years into its democracy. Mbongwa was the Special Guest at Liste Art Fair Basel 2015\, where she curated a booth with the works of South African artist Buhlebezwe Siwani\, Astrid Gebhardt and Breeze Yoko. In 2017/18 she headed and curated Puncture Points\, a projected that commissioned over 15 artists to create and exhibit works tracing the use of oil in the Western Cape. She recently completed a curatorial research residency at CAT.Cologne that engaged with public space\, public intervention and public policy. \nMbongwa is the former Executive Director of Handspring Trust. Besides her independent curatorial project\, Mbongwa is the Adjunct Curator for Performative Practices at Norval Foundation.
URL:https://artforhumanity.co.za/event/khanyisile-mbongwa-workshop-with-students/
LOCATION:Art For Humanity\, City Campus\, DUT\, Anton Lembede Street\, Durban\, Kwa-Zulu Natal\, 4001\, South Africa
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