Christa Dee is a writer, researcher and emerging curator based in Johannesburg. As a writer, she focuses on art, urban studies, digital culture, speculative futures, identity politics, and the relationship between these categories. She currently writes for a number of arts & culture publications across the globe. As a researcher and curator, she has an interest in unpacking the multiple urban imaginaries that exist within Johannesburg, and how art spaces and curators are actors in city making. She currently holds an Honours degree with distinction in Cultural Anthropology, and is working towards her MA in Contemporary Curatorial Practice through the University of the Witwatersrand. 

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"Narrativity became a tool for the interpretation of content and plotting coordinates in our mapping process. It presented a way to pull together stories across files, piece together fragments and discontinuities into a form that created meaning and re-assembled its content in line with our curiosities (Tamboukou 2017)."

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Read Christa's catalogue essay here

Artist

African

Enigma

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"In a profile article of the artist Dumile Feni by Barney Simon in an unidentified publication, Feni expresses:

 “The government have (sic) given me six months to stay in Johannesburg. Then they say I must go back to where I was born…Why do I want to live in Swaziland? Well, because it isn’t my home. So when bad things happen to me there, it won't hurt me so much.” (FUBA Archive)" 

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photograph by: Roland Baege

 

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Read Matshelane's catalogue essay here

Rabia Abba Omar currently lives in Johannesburg where she is working towards an MA in Heritage Studies at the University of Witwatersrand. She holds an Honours in History with distinction from Stellenbosch University. Her research interests lie in ocean and memory studies, and her curatorial interests are in public participation and de-centering the museum in knowledge ownership and production. She is an embroidery artist and makes her own chocolate. 

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 “Museums need to engage the people in the co-development of museum content so that the focus is rather on the partnership between communities and the museum, than the museum wielding all of the decision-making and knowledge-owning power.”

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Photograph by Nigel Zhuwaki

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Read Rabia's catalogue essay here