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(Arts+ Architecture Social Experiment)

 

Kumasi Curio Kiosks II is a part of the 2nd Kumasi Biennial Symposium that will run from July 16 - August 6, 2011, as a response to the growing problem of widening gap between contemporary arts practitioners and the broader public across the sub-Sahara.

 

As arts+ architecture social experiment, project is to bring together arts specialists, architects, and social interest groups from diverse parts of the world in a transnational platform to trade in cultural capital with the local public who might not normally come to art galleries and museums.

 

^{Slipper Kiosk Project by Patrick Tagoe-Turkson, from Ghana in collaboration Re-Painting the Red by Charlie Michaels | Kumasi Kiosk 2009 | Image from odcap.com}

 

In the project, there will be use of Kumasi City-Abetenim rural spaces such as market places, local schools, and village centers, as empirical sites for curio kiosk workshops, artistic interventions, site-specific lectures and other community-based approaches from around the world.

 

Each participant or collaborating team will created own curio kiosk; the size/design is open to the subject-specific needs and site-specific necessities.  The term "curio kiosk" is used in anticipation that the outward design or content will invoke curiosity and bear special attraction to the public.

 

Thus, the invitation/ submission is open to individuals or grousp for community theatre, media arts, readings, film screening, slide shows, open studios, visual activism, musical performances, community design, social architecture and others to allow the rural community to become acquainted with international contemporary artistic practice.

 

 Project is open to only serious applicants; submissions will be reviewed until July 8, 2011. 

 

Submit your curio kiosk proposal (sketches/description) to info@nkafoundation.org and/or nkaprojects@gmx.com.  Project web site is www.nkafoundation.org.

 

We also seek as we go, nominations for the Project Curator and an expert in filmmaking/media arts, to do the DVD and create the e-publication.

Kaafiri Kariuki at the Creativity Gallery

Shades of Time: An exhibition by Kaafiri Kariuki at the Creativity Gallery National Museum of Kenya

• Central Africa
  • Cameroon
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Congo
  • Congo, (DRC)
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Gabon
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  • Burundi
  • Comoros
  • Djibouti
  • Eritrea
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  • Botswana
  • Guinea-Bissau
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Title: Making Ways
Name: Tabitha Wa Thuku
Country: Kenya
Medium: Mixed media on heavy canvas
Size: 149 X 140 cms
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