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UPCOMING:
MADEYOULOOK represents South Africa at the Venice Biennale with the exhibition Quiet Ground: 20 April - 24 November
RECENT:
MADEYOULOOK at Userfructuries of Earth at BAK, Utrecht: 24-25 May
Becoming Ungovernable: Talk at the Bard Centre for Human Rights and the Arts: 8 March 2024
Infrastructures of Art Practice,
Common life
Common Life is an experiment in thinking together. It is an opportunity to explore and test strategies for artistic practice that are deeply tethered to the places from which they have emerged, and strongly committed to the potential for art to generate ways of living together, in common...
Read the project publication at: www.commonlife.art
Notes on inheritance: threads of socially oriented arts organising in Johannesburg
This book chapter looks to track the genealogies of political arts organising in Johannesburg South Africa. From the starting point of the Visual Arts Network of South Africa, it looks to frame a context of historical organising by artists, with which younger arts organisers remain in relation, albeit to a greater and lesser degree of awareness. This text is an introductory one, serving as a kind of roll call, limited by the lack of existing literature that tracks this history.
Read here
Organizing: Collectivity as Infrastructure in Southern African Arts Practice
What are the infrastructures that enable creative practice and a politics of the public? What are the networks of production and the socio-political time/space that enables this form of work? This article is an explorative exercise in thinking through collective organizing as a strategy for social infrastructures that enables practice outside of (or alongside) formal state structures and commercialization.
Read in Field Journal
or VANSA Organising handbook here
Museum Practice,
A Radical Commitment to Repair
Molemo gave a keynote at the The Reimagining Heritage, Archives and Museums: Today/Tomorrow convening in February 2024. The keynote address, entitled A Radical Commitment to Repair: Perspectives on Restitution, gives perspective to the messy work of repair, and the commitment to remaining in difficulty required of all of us.
watch the video on the conference channel
Museum Futures
MuseumFutures Africa is a people-centered cultural project focused on reimagining museums in the majority world. It began with a focus on Africa, and expanded its reach to museums across the majority world, with the intention to test, explore and study potentials for new formats of Southern museology.
more about the project here
nto>ntu: Reimagining Relational Infrastructures of Museums in Africa
An African Museum is, in a sense, a kind of incongruity. Because a museum is, in its foundation and principle, inherently European. It is within rethinking the object – particularly in the coming restitution of material and ancestral culture back to the African continent – that new imaginations of the Museum in Africa become possible.
Read here
and Futures.
Climate Collective
Bringing urgent focus to climate emergency, maat Climate Collective energises critical analyses and creative proposals in moving beyond catastrophism and toward the emergence of environmentally sustainable and socially just futures.
more at maat climate collective.
Ungovernable: reclaiming autonomy, letting go of authority
A reflection on the early phases of Covid 19 Pandemic in South Africa and the approach to the lockdowns and community support.
Read in transformation journal
Remaining in difficulty with ourselves
A text on socially engaged art practice and its pitfalls. (2013)
read here
If you are looking for more writing, you may find it on research gate.