The quote is taken from Ahmet Sisman in conversation with Tony Cokes from Mixing Plant, a project by Urbane Künste Ruhr for Ruhrtriennale in Essen, Germany, in 2019. The quote was featured in a poster and T-Shirt project by Karmaklubb in collaboration with Tony Cokes made in September 2019.
Sonia Boyce in conversation with Mikhail Karkis and Tessa Jackson discussing For you, only you. Institute of International Visual Arts, Scat–Sonia Boyce: Sound and Collaboration (London: Iniva, 2013), 15.
FUBA (Federated Union of Black Artists) was an art school and gallery co-founded by Sipho Sepamla and David Koloane in 1977. Due to financial difficulties, FUBA closed in 2000 after its art collection had been sold to an international buyer to cover outstanding debts.
David Koloane, “Our major issue was the labeling of black artists’ work," by Gabi Ngcobo, Chad Cordeiro, Nathaniel Sheppard, Michelle Monareng and Matshelane Xhakaza, A Labour of Love (Frankfurt: Kerber, 2015), 52.
In February 2020, cultural practitioners and representatives of non-profit arts and technology organizations from Johannesburg, Hong Kong, Berlin, and Minsk gathered to participate in the Artworld DAO Think Tank – A 52hr Gathering, organized by Penny Rafferty and Ruth Carlow.
Whitaker started Floating Reverie, a digital residency program in 2014 with the intention of creating a space for artists to create and develop a practice in and through the digital medium, both online and offline. The residency program used digital space as a residency, studio space which becomes a site of repeated production and iteration of ideas and artistic practice. In 2020 Whitaker started an online art space, Blue Ocean which presents and displays digital born artwork. These multiple roles as one artist-curator-researcher-academic are not unique to her or her context, but speak more to the current sense of urgency to be able to play multiple roles and develop multiple skills.