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 respective corners. There were four Jane Lombard Fellows in total, all of them finalists for the Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice.
Colectivo Cherani for Cherán Cultural CenterKhalil Rabah for The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and HumankindKUNCI Study Forum & Collective for School of Improper Education (SoIE)The Africa Cluster of the Another Roadmap School (ARAC)- The prize recipient was Brisbane, Australia-based collective
proppaNOW for OCCURRENT AFFAIR.
We were invited to participate in the VLC forum from 12-14 October 2023. The ARAC programme consisted of the following:
A DJset by our Christian Nyampeta during the opening public event
2. An artist statement on correction*
“Can correction occur without erasure? What are the conditions for that erasure? In the case where correction speaks to revising or providing additional information, on what do we base the value and relevance of those provisions? ARAC seeks to identify, interrogate, disrupt, learn from, and imagine a way beyond these corrections. We are mindful that the word ‘correction’ itself is loaded and runs the risk of being misappropriated or convoluted—after all, correcting can also be an oppressive act. Therefore, we tread carefully and are mindful of our blind spots. If we are able to supplement or add criticality to what already exists, then we have achieved our goal.”
3. Activation of the Unchronological Timeline 2.2
4. Blackness Is: Global Black and Indigenous Solidarities runoff show, a panel discussion with members of 2022–2024 Jane Lombard Prize recipient proppaNOW—Vernon Ah Kee and Warraba Weatherall—alongside M. Carmen Lane, two-spirit African-American and Haudenosaunee (Mohawk/Tuscarora) artist, writer and facilitator; Another Roadmap Africa Cluster member Lineo Segoete; and moderator Darla Migan, art critic, philosopher, and former part-time lecturer at Parsons School of Design.
5. A public presentation and conversation focused on experimental pedagogies and solidarities within arts education. ARAC’s Lineo Segoete and Zachary Rosen and KUNCI’s Rifki Akbar Pratama shared their strategies for creating spaces for collective learning, alternative curriculums and school infrastructures. The conversation was moderated by Sarah Rifky, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at The Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University.