Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa
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“Letter writing as a technology of the past present and futures”: A New Project for 2020
When the project “ Letters to/from Cairo, Dehli, Gwangju/Cologne, Johannesburg & Richmond: Letter writing as a technology of the past present and futures” started, the method was a meditation on “ Fantasy, Thought, Feeling and Speculation as Action” through a set/suite of questions, prompts and propositions: How do we, in the year 2020/10 or whenever…
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People Who Think Together Dance Together: A Manifesto
In 2018, ARAC was invited by EDUCULT, an Austrian institute of cultural policy and cultural management, invited ARAC to submit a chapter for the book Cultural Policy and Arts Education: A first African-European Exchange (forthcoming). This publication was based on the proceedings of a two-day meeting EDUCULT organised at the Bundesakademie für kulturelle Bildung in…
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Another Roadmap Africa Cluster to impact art education on the continent: Q and A with Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa. (16 September 2015)
Following the inaugural meeting of the Another Roadmap Africa Cluster in Uganda in 2015, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, who organised the meeting, sat down for an interview with Dominic Muwanguzi for START Journal – Magazine for Contemporary Arts and Culture in East Africa. The interview is reproduced here with the kind permission of the START JOURNAL editorial…
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Kampala Working Group visits Johannesburg Working Group (February – May 2020)
In pursuit of her doctoral research into the colonial archive, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa of the Kampala Working Group spent the first semester of 2020 as a Visiting Researcher at the Wits School of the Arts, where she both pursued her research and participated in teaching with her colleagues from the Johannesburg Working Group. In late February…
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ARAC at Lephephe Print Gatherings 4 (February 2020)
The ARAC-ARA Symposium on Artistic Education in Africa ended in style at the 4th Lephephe Print Gathering at the King Kong Building in Johannesburg on Saturday 15 February 2020. inspired by intiatives such as Ba re e ne re Literature Festival, Rutanang Book Fair, Abantu Book Festival, Tjo!Storyfest and the Jozi Book Fair, Lephephe Print…
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ARAC welcomes Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández as Invited Expert for the ARAC-ARA Symposium (February 2020)
ARAC was delighted to welcome Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández of the Toronto Working Group as our invited expert for the ARAC-ARA Symposium on Artistic Education in Africa in February 2020. Rubén is Professor of Curriculum & Pedagogy and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Curriculum Inquiry at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of…
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From Ramses Wissa Wassef, “Woven by Hand”, London: Hamlyn 1972
“I wanted to examine the relationship between technique and art, and reexamine the usual definitions of ‘artist’ and ‘craftsman’. If the word ‘artist’ is used for someone who creates, and ‘craftsman’ for someone who merely reproduces, how is one to explain the many artists who are mere imitators but who are not called craftsmen, or…
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Synthetic Authenticity: On the Emergence of Fine Art Discourse in East Africa (2012)
This text was written by Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa in August 2012 as a starting-point for the research that the Kampala Working Group is now undertaking under the aegis of the Another Roadmap School. Despite extensive evidence of variety and variation in the material cultures and aesthetics traditions that evolved over centuries across the African continent in response to…
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KAMPALA WORKING GROUP UPDATE #2 (AUGUST 2017): DESIGNING A LEARNING UNIT
The Nagenda International Academy of Art & Design (NIAAD) in Namulanda generously permitted the Kampala Working Group to convene on its premises for an intensive workshop during the semester break in July 2017. At the outset Kitto and I reaffirmed our wish to use Trowell’s 1960 book African Design as the starting point for our 2017/2018…