CLUSTERS / GRUPOS
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Photographic archives and nostalgia in Kinshasa
Jean Kamba been active in the conception and execution of this research project through workshops and other activities including interviews with artists; Magloire Mpaka, Baudouin Bikoko and art critic Charles Tumba Kekwo etc. For more context on this timely project, you can read here and here. Interview with visual artist Magloire Mpaka Magloire Mpaka owns…
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Alternative- Exhibition curated by Jean Kamba
June 17–July 22, 2023 «Kinshasa has a wealth of artists but few galleries or cultural centers managed by Congolese. Their group decided that instead of continuing to wait for the state to take charge, they would themselves take the responsibility of opening an impeccable exhibition space, Mission Impossible Studio, which they located in centre ville,…
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Members list
On 2 January 2023, we bid farewell to Emma, the founder of ARAC and core of all our activities. Everyone who ever crossed with Emma can bare testimony to her brilliance, fore-sight, care and depth of knowledge. We have collectively agreed to carry on as ARAC without our anchor, trusting in her vision, the individual…
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ARAC Newsletters
These newsletters were inspired by Emma, who identified them as an easy way to keep up with the Cluster’s activites during documenta 15 (2022). We agreed that it was a well organised and fun way to stay in touch among ourselves, and now with our public. They start at issue 3 because the first 2…
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UN/CHRONO/LOGICAL TIMELINE is now available in German
The Un/Chrono/Logical Timeline is an educational tool developed by intertwining hi/stories to engage with arts education histories and their global connections. It invites to learn, construct, deconstruct, criticize and question history in a participatory way. We are happy to announce that the UN/CHRONO/LOGICAL TIMELINE which so far has been in available in English, Spanisch and…
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Resonancias Open Session, Nov 5, 2024: Alejandro Cevallos
Colonial persistences, narrative resistences: Reflecting on my experience of educational practice in a Quito city museum Persistencias coloniales, resistencias narrativas: Revisando mi experiencia de trabajo educativo en un museo en la ciudad de Quito ENBetween 2011 and 2023 I worked as a coordinator of the Historical Museum of the City of Quito, a city where…
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Resonancias Open Sessions, Dec 4, 2024: Cayo Honorato
Post-critical Education in Art Museums: The Reformulation of Critique through Cultural Mediation Educación post-critica en museos de arte: la reformulación de crítica a través de la mediación cultural ENThe discussion will propose a reformulation of cultural mediation in terms of a post-critical mediation (or more-than-human ‘anthropology’ of mediations), in response to the crises brought about…
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AL DIABLO CON NUESTRAS BUENAS INTENCIONES
La noción de mediación comunitaria como práctica crítica y comprometida con la justicia social no es sinónimo de consenso, participación ni celebración de la diversidad; más bien aparece como una pregunta irresuelta sobre qué es lo que trans-forma o podría transformar y sobre sus puntos ciegos. En medio de la celebración por los diez años…