KLA ART session Reflections: Guest speaker, Hima Batavia
Our 11 KLA ART 21 artists meet every month and we invite a guest speakers to elicit more thoughts and ideas as they continue working on their projects. Our second speaker was Hima Batavia who is a cultural designer and public art producer. She is passionate about creating space and artwork for collective healing and […]
KLA ART session Reflections: Guest speaker, Ibrahim Mahama
Our 11 KLA ART 21 artists meet every month and we invite a guest speakers to elicit more thoughts and ideas as they continue working on their projects. Our first speaker was Ibrahim Mahama, artist and founder of the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art in Tamale, Ghana who talked about his approach to public art, […]
Zine made at the Research and Concept Development Labs
From 15th July – 23rd August 2019, our 11 lab participants and their co-investigators Molemo Moiloa, Nare Mokgotho and Lobadys Perez explored new ways of working through the Research and Concept Development lab sessions. At the end of our first session, the participants alongside their co-investigators collectively drew a zine with quotes and sketches that […]
Gloria Kiconco, Crater Invertido — Mexico
At the end of my residency with Cráter Invertido, I left México City and boarded my plane back to Uganda carrying 60 copies of the bilingual zine we had created, You Are Lost, You Are Here X (Estás Perdidx, Estás Aqui X). I was elated to have a tangible product, the outcome of a collaborative process, […]
M, Art Group 705 — Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan was new but so familiar. I haven’t travelled a lot, so my residency in January 2020 in Kyrgyzstan was more than one ‘first’ (or nearly ‘first’), the most important of which was my first experience interacting with, and learning from practitioners of theatre as an art form. Before I decided to develop my practice […]
Alison Nadunga, Gudskul — Indonesia
On 1st January 2020, the worlds gates open into a literal leap year and the day Edgar Kanyike and I set off for an experience that stamped a new way to learn and rewrite our art practice away from what is the norm in a conventional educational space. I express this in the context of […]
Katesi Jacqueline, 32° East — Uganda
This being my first residency made it an exciting and worthwhile experience for me. This opportunity came at a time when I was interacting more with the rattan canes (stem material used for weaving) and looking out for similar material that can be manipulated in a similar way. During the residency, I had the time […]
Jim Joel Nyakaana, Darb 1718 — Egypt
On day 353 of 365 days of my self-imposed photo challenge documenting cities, as the plane descended upon Cairo city, I took a photo of the sand dunes and a green shaped estate that looked like an oasis in the desert. This first impression stayed with me the rest of my residency as I strolled […]
Liz Kobusinge, Lugar a Dudas — Colombia
Let’s start in a dream. I am halfway through dinner on a terrace, buzz deep into a couple of cocktails and the promise that I will be home in less than a week when I first see her. I say ‘first’, but I think I mean finally. If this were a movie all sound would […]
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 […]