Join Zeitz MOCAA – busy start to August!

by Philip | Jul 24, 2023 | Featured | 0 comments

Opening of a new season of exhibitions at Zeitz MOCAA

Join Zeitz MOCAA for the opening of a new season of exhibitions – Past Disquiet and Seismography of Struggle: Towards a Global History of Critical and Cultural Journals – on Thursday, 3 August as well as accompanying Symposium and Book Launch on Saturday, 5 August 2023. The exhibitions explore archival, exhibition, and publishing histories related to resistance, struggle, and solidarity. They bring together both storytelling and immersive viewing experiences

Past Disquiet – Thursday, 3 August 2023 at 6 pm

Past Disquiet is a unique archival exhibition conceived by curator-writer duo, and long-time collaborators, Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti. Over the past 15 years, Khouri and Salti have persistently researched and reconstructed histories and archives of international artistic solidarity and resistance. These include Palestine, Chile, Nicaragua, and South Africa by investigating, exhibiting, and collecting museum-making strategies of international solidarity in the latter-half of the twentieth century.

WHAT, WHEN & WHERE: Opening of Past Disquiet | Thursday, 3 August at 6 pm | Atrium Foyer and Level 4 | Free entry

Seismography of Struggle: Towards a Global History of Critical and Cultural Journals – Thursday, 3 August at 6 pm

Seismography of Struggle: Towards a Global History of Critical and Cultural Journals is an itinerant exhibition and ongoing research project conceived by French-Algerian art historian and curator, Zahia Rahmani, in 2015. Seismography of Struggle is an inventory of critical and cultural journals from the non-European world, understanding print media and publishing as fundamental tools of struggle for anti-colonial, abolitionist and liberatory movements in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. At Zeitz MOCAA, the focus shifts to the rich legacies of Black-led and anti-apartheid publishing from South Africa, considering popular (and populist) magazines, as well as critical academic journals. The exhibition is presented as a film installation

WHAT, WHEN & WHERE: Opening of Seismography of Struggle: Towards a Global History of Critical and Cultural Journals | Thursday, 3 August at 6 pm | Atrium Foyer and Level 4 | Free entry

Symposium ‘The Poetics and Politics of Archival Practice’ – Saturday, 5 August at 10 am

Accompanying the opening is a Symposium titled ‘The Poetics and Politics of Archival Practice’. Presenters include Seismography of Struggle and Past Disquiet authors Zahia Rahmani, Kristine Khouri, Rasha Salti, as well as Koni Benson, Historian, Organiser & Educator – Revolutionary Papers, Lecturer in the Department of History, University of the Western Cape (UWC); Buhle Ngaba, Actor and Writer – Fellow in the New Archival Visions Programme, Centre for Humanities Research (UWC); George Mahashe, Photographer, Artist, Researcher, Lecturer at Michaelis School of Fine Arts, Artist-in-Residence at Centre for Curating the Archive, University of Cape Town (UCT); and Amogelang Maledu, interdisciplinary art practitioner and Researcher at Creative Knowledge Resources, an initiative of the National Research Foundation and UCT.

WHAT, WHEN & WHERE: Symposium: ‘The Poetics and Politics of Archival Practice’ | Saturday, 5 August at 10 am | Level 6 Mountain Side | R230 per entry or free with annual museum membership (from R290 pp)

Book here to attend the Symposium and Book Launch

Book launch of Radical Solidarity: A Reader – Saturday, 5 August 2023 at 4 pm

The exhibition programming includes the book launch of Radical Solidarity: A Reader which brings together the ideas and projects of some of the world’s most active and inspiring radical thinkers, artists, and activists committed to fostering the arts from Africa and its diaspora. Urgent. Steady. Connected. Defiant. Rooted. Inventive. Collaborative. The publication emerges from the proceedings of the Radical Solidarity Summit, a week-long online gathering hosted by Zeitz MOCAA in September 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the intention to not only address the urgent issues of this moment, but to explore the alternative futures, and possibilities that can be forged in the cultural field through acts of radical solidarity. Edited by Tandazani Dhlakama, Alexandra Dodd, Tammy Langtry, and Storm Janse van Rensburg, it retains the conversational, intimate nature of the online gathering, whilst honouring the urgency and complexity of its subject matter.

WHAT: Join Zeitz MOCAA
WHERE: Zeitz MOCAA, Silo District, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town 8001
WHEN: Wed 3 August & Saturday 5 August – details above
INFO: E communications@zeitzmocaa.museum | VISIT

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