Trevor Aloka, Casa Tres Patios — Colombia
Being new in a country, it was hard to know where to start from especially in the beginning, but later things got easier with help from my hosts at Casa Tres Patios. I got oriented to the country through visits to different museums like The House of Memories Museum, Museum of Modern Arts and the […]
Kanyike Edgar, Gudskul — Indonesia
As part of the KLA ART Labs program we were offered a selection of countries and southern hemisphere arts organisations to apply to visit and spend a month-long residency with. Though I imagined more exotic residencies in Asia and a chance to see South America would have been my first choice, I found myself drawn […]
Odur Ronald, Centre Soleil d’Afrique — Mali
When we travel to other places, we tend to experience different things in various aspects. For the KLA ART Labs, I spent a month and two weeks in Mali on residency at Centre Soleil d’Afrique as aligned to my proposal put in place during one of the lab sessions about Research and Concept Development which mainly focused […]
Martin Kharumwa, Centre Soleil d’Afrique — Mali
As part of the KLA ART Labs program we were offered a selection of countries and southern hemisphere arts organisations to apply to visit and spend a month-long residency with. Though I imagined more exotic residencies in Asia and a chance to see South America would have been my first choice, I found myself drawn […]
Charity Atukunda, Centre Soleil d’Afrique — Mali
There is a satisfaction I gain from visiting other African countries, there is the reassuring familiarity of seeing faces like mine, discovering similar customs like mine, I take pleasure in noting where they differ or where they have remained the same. I also enjoy delving in the unfamiliar, recognizing and appreciating how each culture on […]
Podcast Transcript: Lab Session 1 Reflections — Lobadys Pérez
Dear friends Many things impressed me when I was in Africa for the first time. The gateway was Uganda and the meeting with incredible artists at 32 degrees was the point of important reflections. The heterogeneity of the proposals and points of view from which they are built make Campala’s artistic production strongly related to […]
Podcast Transcript: Lab Session 1 Reflections — M
Before the labs, my approach to research and concept development was very linear. If I had a question, the research involved looking for a direct answer to the question that I had. For example if I asked you what a bird is, you probably say that it is a creature that flies. During the labs, […]
Podcast Transcript: Lab Session 1 Reflections — Liz Kobusinge
Something that Molemo said during one of the sessions really stood out to me then and I keep coming back to it. She was talking about how important it is to be really voracious in your consumption of art, of theory, of context, as a way to learn more things and really immerse yourself in […]
Podcast Transcript: Lab Session 1 Reflections — Odur Ronald
I was struggling with concept development which was answered by research, so there is no way you can inform me of work without research. You have to go deep and make research about something and then all these levels of creating everything and then translating everything to an art visual or a composition, at least […]
Podcast Transcript: Lab Session 1 Reflections — Alison Nadunga
My biggest take on the lab sessions has been learning and unlearning so many things. I was and still am an extremely structured person and it gets challenging and intimidating when the structure is removed from things and information is left open-ended. Being a part of these sessions has helped me slowly get into understanding […]