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École du soir (evening school)
This project has been ongoing since 2015 and is part of Another Roadmap School (AR), We view arts education as deeply embedded in social and political contexts – but also as a possibility to question and transform the social. The evening school method is inspired by the Senegalese writer and director Sembène Ousmane, who saw…
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Co-creation TOOLKIT for UNESCO
Phase 1 September -December 2023 As part of our residency at Javett-UP we were tasked with developing a toolkit for them as a deliverable to the UNESCO Office for Southern Africa. The project was building on the outcomes of the ongoing National Liberation Movements Heritage Programme implemented by the UNESCO Office for Southern Africa, as…
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2022-2024 Jane Lombard Fellowship
1 January 2023 to 30 June 2024. Presented by the Vera List Center for art and politics, at the New School University in New York city, we had the honour of being nominated by Ozge Erzoy of Asia Art Archive to be in the company of peers doing some incredible and necessary work in their…
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JAVETT-UP RESIDENCY 2023-2024
August 2023 – March 2024 THE PROGRAMME WAS AS FOLLOWS August September October November December January February March
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ARAC METHODS
Where we work from Our respective countries, environments, and disciplines, inform what we end up contributing to the collective. This is to say we are inspired and motivated by our societies and their politics, the spaces we occupy; the architecture and natural topography thereof, things both tangible and intangible and of course the conversations we…
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Photographic archives and nostalgia in Kinshasa
Jean Kamba been active in the conception and execution of this research project through workshops and other activities including interviews with artists; Magloire Mpaka, Baudouin Bikoko and art critic Charles Tumba Kekwo etc. For more context on this timely project, you can read here and here. Interview with visual artist Magloire Mpaka Magloire Mpaka owns…
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Alternative- Exhibition curated by Jean Kamba
June 17–July 22, 2023 “Kinshasa has a wealth of artists but few galleries or cultural centers managed by Congolese. Their group decided that instead of continuing to wait for the state to take charge, they would themselves take the responsibility of opening an impeccable exhibition space, Mission Impossible Studio, which they located in centre ville,…
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Members list
On 2 January 2023, we bid farewell to Emma, the founder of ARAC and core of all our activities. Everyone who ever crossed with Emma can bare testimony to her brilliance, fore-sight, care and depth of knowledge. We have collectively agreed to carry on as ARAC without our anchor, trusting in her vision, the individual…