PROGRAM

The Earth as a Wayfinder
September 19-20, 2024  -  Lusaka Contemporary Art Center (LuCAC), Zambia

We are excited to announce Sustaining the Otherwise: The Earth as a Wayfinder, an experimental research forum curated by Amal Alhaag and Selene Wendt. Taking place September 19-20, 2024, at Lusaka Contemporary Art Center (LuCAC), this two-day event is designed to foster meaningful dialogues around restitution, with particular emphasis on the importance of transformative ecosystems.  

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Unruly Knowledge: Rehearsing for Epistemic Restitution
May 16-19, 2024 - The African Art Book Fair, Dakar

This four-day program was developed by Amal Alhaag and Selene Wendt in collaboration with Pascale Obolo, Afrikadaa, and the African Art Book Fair and aimed to explore how artists, designers, thinkers, activists, and communities in Africa and its diasporas address the concept of epistemic restitution and the return of knowledge. The Unruly Knowledge sessions are conceived as a pluriversal call and response to the African Art Book Fair program.

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Restitution: Thinking Beyond Cultural Heritage Objects
May 2-3, 2024 - Nordic Black Theatre, Oslo

The collaborative research chapter of this multi-locational and multi-year artistic research project, had launched with a two-day symposium at Nordic Black Theatre, Oslo in May 2024. This gathering was organized around four interrelated themes: (Un)learning Decolonial Curating; Disrupting the Archives; Performing Decoloniality and Artistic Practices of Storytelling, which waas discussed in a workshop environment where participants and guest speakers exchanged ideas, strategies, and reference points. Participants included Tawanda Appiah, Michael Barrett, Bafana Isaac Nhlapo & Ibou Cissokho & Solo Diarra, Jeannette Ehlers, Quinsy Gario, Sasha Huber, Marcia Harvey Isaksson, Linda Lamignan, Duduzile Mathsoni, Aude Christel Mgba, Lennon Mhishi, Wayne Modest (remote), Ogutu Muraya, Cliff Moustache, Victor Mutelekesha, Emmanuel Ndefo and Pascale Obolo.

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