The invited works engage with subject positions that critically query differing forms of actual and perceived violence in discourse on the black body. Through allegory, the works evidence a concern with notions of both injurability, vulnerability, and reveal a concern of the relationship between corporeality and violence, particularly the instances of violence that are rendered invisible within certain economies of representation.…

Lesedi Mazibane (Botswana), Tanja Szallies (Germany), Buhle Mpila (South Africa), Nobukho Nqaba (South Africa), Siphiwe Ndzube (South Africa), Ester Vonplon (Switzerland), Maya Minder (Switzerland) Exhibition set up at the shell of the former French Cultural Center in Blantyre Malawi, October, 2014

organised by Nkule Mabaso and Ashraf Osman as part of Curating Your Context: Each country has its own peculiar brand of identity and other politics, yet ‘culture’ is multilayered and always hybrid and all ‘cultural’ identifications are imaginary, especially so in the digital age. The discussion will revolve around how individual practices approach the question how societal, cultural, political, social,…

SAME(difference)_sculpture in relation Kunstkammer AZB Schlieren 2013/2014 Curated by: Tanja Trampe, Anne Koskiluoma, John Canciani, Nkule Mabaso A cultural engagement of the AZB, working collective of sculptors in Zürich This curatorial concept for the Kunstkammer Schlieren 2013/14 intends to explore the notion of sculpture and its potential for transformation. The AZB – an artists collective beginning in the early 1980’s…