As part of the collaboration between Sustaining the Otherwise and G.A.S. Foundation, we are pleased to share that artists Quinsy Gario and Sasha Huber have been selected for artist residencies that will take place at G.A.S. Foundation in late 2025. Details will follow about each of their residencies, including Sasha Huber’s creation of a portrait dedicated to the late Bisi Silva, which will be donated to CCA, Lagos for permanent display upon completion. 

Following the invitation for Sustaining the Otherwise to participate in the Re:assemblages symposium, we will contribute with a panel session titled The Unruly Archive: Rehearsing for Epistemic Restitution, where we will explore themes including Everyday Memory Work, Self-determined Knowledge and Regenerative Artistic Practices. 

During this session, we will think through the complexities of ongoing discussions about restitution, aiming to foreground important spaces, conversations and practices within Africa and its diasporas.  In what ways does the discourse around restitution and policymaking, including prevailing notions of reparative futures, mirror the systemic and structural colonial and racial status quo? Rehearsing together means unpacking the ways in which existing practices, toolkits, strategies, and networks either reinforce current power structures or succeed in challenging structures of exploitation and domination. It involves a collective effort to understand how to undo or shift power structures and to foster a more nuanced conversation about the intricate interplay between knowledge, power, and societal structures. 

We think of The Unruly Archive as a site of study and a space for sharing knowledge(s), practices, materials, and subversive strategies that offer a path forward through the complexities of ongoing restitution debates. 

Together with Quinsy Gario, Selene Wendt and Amal Alhaag will offer provocations, propositions and potential approaches to thinking about restitution, unruly knowledge and the counter-archive.