May 10, 2018
Surprise performance at our latest #ImaginationNight where Skhumbuzo Myeza spoke about his coffee start up "Koloni Coffee" > more info and all photos on https://www.facebook.com/goethe.joburg/posts/10155702710252893
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Surprise performance at our latest #ImaginationNight where Skhumbuzo Myeza spoke about his coffee start up "Koloni Coffee" > more info and all photos on https://www.facebook.com/goethe.joburg/posts/10155702710252893
We speak with South African architect and curator Mpho Matsipa on her exhibition "African Mobilities" which is on view in Munich until August 19.
Education systems around the world are increasingly recognising the value of local approaches to thinking, learning and being.
Out now: AFRICAN FUTURES eBOOK
https://www.kerberverlag.com/en/ebook-african-futures.html
Today, Europe and the world are increasingly looking to Africa—and they like to describe the future of the continent in extremes: as a gloomy, apocalyptic vision or a paradise of booming investment. But how do artists, cultural producers, and scientists view the future there? Do they offer alternative visions to widespread views? What kinds of science fiction do they pick up on? How do they relate to Afro-futurism, which arose in the American diaspora? These questions are at the core of African Futures, in which artists, scholars, and cultural producers present their positions on the future of literature, film, performance, the visual arts, music, and science.
Is this a case of a few Model Cs rediscovering themselves, or a wider return to African spirituality? Writer Percy Zvomuya set outs to listen to those on the journey.
Welcome, to the bleeding-edge of African innovation: VR, 3D printing, AI. The continent isn't just driving technological change for Africa, but for the world.
The Virtual Reality works 'Let this be a warning' by The Nest Collective and 'The Other Dakar' by Selly Raby Kane have been named by CNN as "2017 African innovations that could change the world".
Both works form part of NEW DIMENSIONS, which we co-produced with Electric South. More information is on https://www.goethe.de/ins/za/en/kul/sup/new-dimensions.html. Photo taken by Lerato Maduna during #AfricanFutures 2015.
Science fiction and fantasy, long dominated by Western mythology, are growing more diverse, with novels that draw on African mythology and legends.
Have you ever considered the possibility of travelling into the future and the past? Have you wondered what is the role of black heroes in science fiction? Have you danced to a Detroit techno beat? Could Afrofuturism be the modernist counter-culture?
As a term, Afrofuturism appeared in the 1990s to describe an Afro-American artistic trend which had found expression in sci-fi, fantasy literature, music, the visual arts, comics and movies. Today, it is an inexhaustible field of academic, political, artistic and scientific investigation and production which incorporates elements from the black cultures drom the diaspora of West Africa, North America, Britain and the Caribbean, creating a Black Atlantic map. The history and roots of the Afro-American community were systematically eradicated from the white, slave-trading consciousness. What started as the kidnapping of people from Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries developed into the post-colonial mindset of the contemporary world. The community's need to construct myths of origin, to recover their stolen past and reshape their futures found expression in sci-fi, music and technology. Afrofuturism bridges past and future to liberate the present through musical, visual, narrative and political terms that transcend all and every historical limitation of race and gender. It constructs myths, conjecture and fantasy by linking the black experience to the techno-culture of the 20th and 21st centuries. It draws its ideas from the African cultural and philosophical tradition, the art produced by the African diaspora, and criticism of modernism and the post-colonial condition, and seeks to rewrite the Western narrative on colonialism, technology, race and time. "Enter Afrofuturism" is a 6-day festival that maps Afrofuturism as a cultural and political movement through concerts, talks, workshops and film screenings. The concerts will be held on the OCC's Main Stage and at Six d.o.g.s. and will feature the following artists: Sun Ra Arkestra, Actress, Dopplereffekt, Moor Mother, A Guy Called Gerald, Voltnoi, ATH Kids, Nkisi, Black Quantum Futurism, Black Athena. The guest speakers at the lectures and open discussions will include: otolith group, Reynaldo Anderson, Louis Chude-Sokei, Rasheedah Phillips, Nkisi, Abdul Qadim Haqq, Tabita Rezaire, Erik Steinskog, Nathalie Mba Bikoro et al. Moreover, in association with the Goethe Institut Athens and Johannesburg, short films and documentaries will be screened which explore Afrofuturism through the history of black music. Jazz, Detroit techno and the contemporary music produced in Africa's metropolises are some of the featured subjects in a collaboration that will also include the screening of virtual reality films. Credits Curated by: Voltnoi & Quetempo Organized by: Pasqua Vorgia, Chara Mourla Screenings organized by: Goethe-Institut Athen The series of screenings is staged in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Athen and the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg. VR Screenings Powered by: Cosmote