Editorial 02 – Navigating Friction
Editorial
Friction
Editorial 02 – Navigating Friction
OtherNetwork
Since the foundation of OtherNetwork, we have used the notion of independence as a provocation, embracing the friction that this term may cause in an effort to redefine and unpack what it means to produce culture at the margins of society.
Editorial 01 – Interdependence
Editorial
Interdependence
Editorial 01 – Interdependence
OtherNetwork
Throughout history, large art museums and cultural institutions have been instrumental in forging powerful myths. To control a museum, as art historian Carol Duncan wrote, “*means precisely to control the representation of a community and its highest values and truths. It is also the power to define the relative standing of individuals within that community.*”
A Home in the World: Centre d'art Waza
Lubumbashi
Interdependence
A Home in the World: Centre d'art Waza
Christian Nyampeta and Feza Kayungu Ramazani
“Waza,” which means “thinking” or “imagination” in Swahili, emerged through friendships between artists and cultural workers living in Lubumbashi. The space quickly became a bustling meeting place for all manner of artists who congregated there to work.
Faire éclater la structure
Kinshasa
Interdependence
Faire éclater la structure
Sorana Munsya, Lydia Schellhammer and Christ Mukenge
Oyo Project a toujours été un projet nomade. Au début, nous avons travaillé dans plusieurs différents endroits publics. Mais au bout d’un moment, travailler dans la rue devenait dangereux car la police refusait des rencontres entre jeunes dans l’espace public. Le grand problème était aussi que ces jeunes, dans un espace public avaient beaucoup de mal à rester concentrés.
From Facing the Mirror to Intentional Conversations
Accra
Interdependence
From Facing the Mirror to Intentional Conversations
Bernard Akoi-Jackson and FCA-Ghana
It is almost midday on a mellow Sunday afternoon in Accra. 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. On Saturday, September 3, the entire art community in Accra had gathered in the grounds of the W. E. B. Dubois Centre to mourn...
Dreaming Art in an Unlikely place
Lagos
Interdependence
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-space Laboratory (VAL) in Iwaya, a community along the coast of mainland Lagos. Once known by one name, the street is on the verge of getting subsumed by another.
Removing Barriers, Elevating Practices
Lagos
Interdependence
Removing Barriers, Elevating Practices
Papa Omotayo
I was trying to trace footsteps, memories of a time that lay somewhere between myth and someone else’s life. Hours had now passed, walking, in a slight daze, crisscrossing Murtala Muhammed Way and the gridded streets of the southern area of Yaba that formed the historical Ebutte Metta, a Yoruba settlement of the Egba people from the Abeokuta kingdom. I was now on Borno Street.
GHeTTo GeT In-GrOw Up!
Kinshasa
Interdependence
GHeTTo GeT In-GrOw Up!
Eléonore Hellio
We’re in the 1990s in Ngbwaka, a district of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This district was renamed during the Zairianisation period (1971–1997), by the Ngbwaka, a forest people whose territory stretches from the province of Équateur to the north-west of the country and beyond.
The Studio as a Shared Collaborative Space: Notes on a Prototype
Johannesburg
Interdependence
The Studio as a Shared Collaborative Space: Notes on a Prototype
Bhavisha Panchia, Carly Whitaker and Chad Cordeiro
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. This has led to privately-funded institutions...
My Ever Whirling Dust
Johannesburg
Interdependence
My Ever Whirling Dust
Keleketla! Library and Sumayya Vally
We are currently located in Troyeville, which is on the east side of the city, close to Maboneng, and just next to the Jeppe police station. We are there as part of our placemaking and worldmaking practice, but also as part of our ethical exile from the Drill Hall.
Terra By The Way
Accra
Interdependence
Terra By The Way
Terra Alta Community
A growing collection of shipping containers. A round concrete seat with a wooden bench. A tiny urban farm growing local vegetables and herbs. Terra Alta is, for me, a push always towards higher ground. But to other people, what exactly is it? We asked our community to help us answer.