ACTIVISM
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How to Work with Archives that are “Not There”? Engaging Medu Art Ensemble in the Now
WORKING GROUP: JOHANNESBURG AUTHORS: PULENG PLESSIE AND RANGOATO HLASANE ABSTRACT This Learning Unit is concerned with the politics of archival access or how to work with archives that are ‘not there’. The central story of the Johannesburg Working Group (JWG) is the Medu Art Ensemble (Medu), a collective of informal members; most of them exiled…