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Interdependence
Editors Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Colin Keays, Federico Martelli, Samantha Modisenyane, Abraham Tettey, Lucille de Witte
Contributors Sumayya Vally, Keleketla! Library, Eléonore Hellio, Papa Omotayo, Chad Cordeiro, Carly Whitaker, Bhavisha Panchia, Oris Aigbokhaevbolo, Terra Alta Community, Bernard Akoi-Jackson, and more…

Inventive forms of collaborative and critical practice are often born in cities where the infrastructure of cultural funding and subsidies is limited. In parallel to supporting artists and curators themselves, independent art initiatives often serve fundamental roles in their wider communities, too. Artists and curators are rooted in local contexts, and can have a pragmatic understanding of the needs of their neighbors that extend beyond artistic collaboration.

Interdependence is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and OtherNetwork, a project by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) together with cookies.

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A Home in the World
Feza Kayungu Ramazani and Christian Nyampeta
When describing the time leading up to the beginnings of Centre d’art Waza, an art center in Lubumbashi that he co-founded in 2010 and has led ever since, Patrick Mudekereza speaks in a voice full of gratitude and contagious with joy.
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Shattering the Structure
Sorana Munsya, Lydia Schellhammer, and Christ Mukenge
From my point of view, your way of producing art in Kinshasa and circulating it creates surreal situations by breaking down the boundaries that separate social, geographical, and conceptual realities that coexist in the same space of the city. Could you tell us how your duo came about?
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From Facing the Mirror to Intentional Conversations
Bernard Akoi-Jackson
It is September 4, 2022, the day our comrade and friend, Isaac Nana Osei Kwadwo (aka Ashanti immigrant) would be finally laid to rest in his hometown in Offinso, Ashanti Region, Ghana.
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Terra By The Way
Terra Alta Community
To some people, it’s a barely noticeable gate in the slip road by a busy highway, concealed by a splatter of potted plants and tall trees. To others, it’s a curiosity, an enigma, either a place of derision or wonder. It’s good, bad, confusing, needed, comforting, unsettling, too broad, and too specific by turns.
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Dreaming Art in an Unlikely Place
Oris Aigbokhaevbolo
Depending on the direction you are coming from, you may need to walk or drive through a street with a confusion of names to get to the Vernacular Art-...
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The Studio as a Shared Collaborative Space: Notes on a Prototype
Chad Cordeiro, Carly Whitaker, and Bhavisha Panchia
The ecology of the artworld in South Africa today relies on support from public and private institutions. Yet there is a deficiency of state and municipal funding for maintaining public art institutions as well as supporting exhibition programming, acquisitions, and publishing.
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Removing Barriers, Elevating Practices
Papa Omotayo
The Center for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA) was founded as a not-for-profit art space, gallery, library and educational center in 2007, a year before my first visit. Its intention was to allow new voices to emerge along with new forms of artistic thought and expression. A space for Lagosians to find, interact, learn, and share from the wealth of creative knowledge and practice that has existed and exists in the city as well as from places far and wide.
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GHeTTo GeT In-GrOw Up!
Eléonore Hellio
Originally from this vast region, Bebson Elemba aka Bebson de la Rue is in the process of turning his Ngbwaka home into an autonomous space for collective participatory creation. Step by step, an informal avant-garde will begin to take shape around his artistic practice.
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My Ever Whirling Dust
Sumayya Vally and Keleketla! Library
The history of the Drill Hall, of the 1956 Treason Trial, became fertile ground to expand our programming with the After School Programme. Some of the publications that we printed about the heritage of the Drill Hall and the history of South Africa were meant to become integrated in local school curricula, which doesn’t speak much about the 1956 Treason Trial.
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Editorial
Colin Keays, e-flux Architecture, and Federico Martelli
Inventive forms of collaborative and critical practice are often born in cities where the infrastructure of cultural funding and subsidies is limited. In parallel to supporting artists and curators themselves, independent art initiatives often serve fundamental roles in their wider communities, too.
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Museums, Education
Subject
Architecture, Museology, Africa, Collaboration, Networks, Postcolonialism

Interdependence is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and OtherNetwork, a project by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) together with cookies.

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