There are no new ideas, there are only new ways of making them felt - Audre Lorde, 2017
STATE OF DISASTER 2020
This curatorial project was presented as an ‘open gallery’ and aimed to deepen a connection between local artists and community within a semi-public sphere, celebrating art during a time of loss. Each artwork responded individually to the covid crisis and was presented in the window or front yard of the artist’s or a host’s house. The works were situated in a perimeter of Kensington 3031 that took viewers on a walk no longer than an hour to maintain lockdown regulations.
Viewers were able to navigate the artworks via a digital map on the exhibition website that provided further information on selected artists, their practice and ways to support them such as purchasing their artwork or continuing a discourse around their practice.
ROADMAP 2021
As a continued reclamation of the apparatus’ jargon, the second iteration of the STATE OF DISASTER curatorial project intended to recontextualise the term ROADMAP as an approach to critically dream our way out of the covid crisis through art making. This project continued to empower local artists and the community to think beyond the ‘now’, share sensibilities, exchange imaginaries and speculate on futures. In the same style as our 2020 exhibition, ROADMAP was presented as an ‘open gallery’ that aimed to deepen a connection between local artists and community within a semi-public sphere.
Co-curated by Tameka Carter and Rute Chaves.