This lecture introduces the interventions (in print, radio, event, and installation imprint) of Chimurenga’s experimental publishing methodology and practice spanning almost 25 years.
Chimurenga, a pan-African publishing platform based in Cape Town, South Africa, has been producing objects in text, sound, and image through print and radio publishing, as well as in-situ imprints, for close to 25 years.
In this lecture, Duduetsang Lamola and Mischa Peters from Chimurenga will speak to its multi-instrumentalist approach and method of publishing and object making, which include, among others: Chimurenga Magazine, a journal of culture, art, and politics; a quarterly broadsheet called The Chronic; the Chimurenga Library, an ongoing intervention into knowledge production and the archive that seeks to re-imagine the library; the African Cities Reader, a biennial publication of urban life, Africa-style; and the Pan African Space Station (PASS), an online radio station, live performance platform, and pop-up studio.
Event language: English with close-captions.
Chimurenga is a pan-African publishing platform for writing, art, and politics founded in 2002. For over two decades, Chimurenga has drawn together a myriad of voices from across Africa and the diaspora, and takes many forms operating as an innovative platform for free ideas and political reflection about Africa by Africans. The platform’s publishing activities include Chimurenga Magazine, a journal of culture, art, and politics; Chimurenganyana, a pavement-literature project consisting of serialized monographs expanding on themes developed in the journal; The Chimurenga Chronic, a gazette borne out of an urgent need to write our world differently—to begin asking new questions, or even the old ones anew; Chimurenga Library, an ongoing intervention into knowledge production that seeks to re-imagine the library; and Pan African Space Station (PASS), a periodic, pop-up live studio, an itinerant performance and exhibition space, as well as internet-based radio station exploring the broadcasting studio as a creative platform. Chimurenga’s work has been recognized internationally through awards such as the Prince Claus Fund (2011) and the Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics (2020).
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This event is part of the Pressing Issues: Printing Futures, Publishing Resistance paid online series of lectures, tutorials, and roundtable conversations discussing the politics of translating, archiving, and publishing.
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