ANOTHER ROADMAP GRUPO ÁFRICA (ARAC)
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Maseru and Cuernavaca participate in «Elephants in the Room» at Casco, Utrecht (November 2018)
Elephants in the Room, presented by Casco Art Institute in the Netherlands in November 2018, was the first in a new yearly assembly aimed at becoming a meeting place for art organizations to question habitual institutional patterns and imagine ways of “commoning” together. This year’s assembly was designed to investigate how, in relation to ideas…
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The Maseru Working Group contributes to the VANSA Organising Handbook (October 2018)
Lineo Segoete (Maseru) was invited by Visual Arts Network South Africa (VANSA) to attend a meeting of arts, cultural and arts educational peers from the region that eventually resulted in the creation of a handbook for ‘organising’. The book details some of the experiences of and strategies for organising that are currently adopted by arts…
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“A Communion of Spirits”: Another Roadmap International Meeting in Huye, RW (August 2018)
In August 2018 delegates of all working groups of Another Roadmap School gathered for one week at the building of the currently shut down Faculty of Media, Arts and Technology (NSPA) in Huye, Rwanda. The gathering gave the intertwining hi/stories cluster an opportunity to share results of their interconnected researches with other clusters. Throughout the meeting participants and guests contributed…
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Maseru Working Group Organises the Skima Sesotho Workshop Series (April – August 2018)
Between April and August 2018 the Maseru Working Group organised a series of workshops collectively entitled Skima Sesotho. These workshops, which brought together exercises and discussions about critical multimedia literacy with the BA RE Dictionary Project, aimed to get the Basotho excited about the Sesotho language and to demonstrate the playful malleability of Sesotho. Through…
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Contributions from the Johannesburg and Kinshasa Working Groups published in Artl@s Bulletin 7, no. 1 (2018)
Essays by David Andrew (Johannesburg Working Group) and Cedrick Nzolo (Kinshasa Working Group) have been published in a special issue of Artl@s Bulletin , “ Mediating Past, Present and Future of D.R.Congo’s Historical Narratives on Art in a Global South Dialogue ” This special issue aims to bring to readers some of the main themes,…
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storytelling and creative writing for the Lephephe Print Gatherings (15-16 February 2018)
Puleng Plessie (Johannesburg) and Lineo Segoete (Maseru) joined forces to run a day-long creative writing for high school students at Metropolitan College in Johannesburg. The following day, the students alongside other young people shared their work in a publicstorytelling session during the Lephephe Print Gathering at the King Kong Building.
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Kampala and Maseru Working Groups represent ARAC in Basel at ‘Crossroads’ (8-10 February 2018)
CROSSROADS, organised by The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) brought together cultural practitioners from Switzerland, India, the Arab world and Southern Africa in Basel and Geneva for a conference and multidisciplinary cultural programme that explored the impact that cultural exchange and international networks might have, and the roles…
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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…