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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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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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Kinshasa
Kinshasa, une ville qui ne fait que croître avec une énergie particulière que l’on peut ressentir dans ses rues. C’est une ville qui est, en soi, un sujet d’études ; elle ne cesse de nous révéler des informations sur la créativité en constante mutation dans divers secteurs de la création, et même dans le quotidien de…
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A Symposium on Art Pedagogies of the South in Kinshasa (January 2016)
In January 2016, David Andrew (Johannesburg Working Group), Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa (Kampala Working Group) and Patrick Mudekereza and Sari Middernacht (Lubumbashi Working Group) participated in the symposium Mediating Past, Present and Future: Dialogues with Global South Experiences at the Academy of Fine Art in Kinshasa, DRC, which brought together researchers, artists, art students, art teachers, policy…