MOLEMO MOILOA
My name is Molemo Moiloa. I am a Johannesburg based artist, researcher and organiser. My work, for the past while, is an extended enquiry into the place of creative practice in helping to figure and build the world’s we want to live in. I work with others to experiment and test structures, skills, knowledges and imaginations and their application in our everyday lives, across artistic work, forms of organising and ‘infrastructural’ models.
My work is deeply informed by the place I am from, its difficult, dense history -including my own familial roles in making it - and perhaps most importantly, by its contemporary social urgencies. Foundational to this are our relationships to place, land and the more-than-human, and the deep knowledge of being part of this earth.
I work in communal and collaborative ways, and am committed to long-term, deeply rooted engagements that are as challenging as they are rewarding. I try to put into practice the ways of being, growing and organising that I am constantly learning about, and sharing with my colleagues and community – a prefigurative politics if you will.
I consider my way of working to be informed by the inheritance of political cultural organising in South Africa and foundational organisations in South Africa and beyond that have nurtured me along my journey, including Market Photo Workshop, Wits History Workshop, VANSA, Keleketla! and Arts Collaboratory. To all of whom, I give thanks.
I am deeply privileged to play a part in a few different collectives of amazing people doing amazing work. Learn more about them below..
MADEYOULOOK is a Johannesburg based interdisciplinary artist collaborative between Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho. Since 2009, the works of MADEYOULOOK have taken as their point of departure, everyday black practices that have either been historically overlooked or deemed inconsequential.
www.made-you-look.net
ungovernable is an opportunity to experiment. We host programmes and projects to make together and think together about what community means. We are interested in what it means to govern ourselves: to be accountable to ourselves and our neighbours and the needs of our neighbourhood.
www.theungovernable.org
Andani.Africa is a research and insights agency specialised in the creative sector across the African continent. Andani.Africa operates in the intersection of tradition and culture that we like to call Data Humanism: African forms of storytelling that develops and shares knowledge in the tradition of the oral histories of our forebears.
www.andani.africa
Open Restitution Africa is an Africa-led project seeking to open up access to information on the restitution of African material culture and human ancestors, to empower all actors involved to make knowledge-based decisions. It centres African agency for African-led processes.
www.openrestitution.africa
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