LATITUDES LIVE

We engage with the true value of championing an artist's career, supporting their livelihood and allowing a creative practice to thrive.

Speakers:
Refiloe Mpakanyane, Host of The Latitudes Podcast powered by iTOO Artinsure
Annicia Manyaapelo (Founder, Women Who Collect)
Lucy MacGarry, Co-Founder and Director Latitudes Online
Nandi Dlepu, Cultural Innovator & Collector
Gail Bosch, iTOO Artinsure

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To tether utility to culture, in order to best serve our needs. We are guided by a consideration of regional values tied to artistic expression, both through historical and modern manifestations, in order to design spaces that are sensitive to other ways of holding stories, based on African cultures and perspectives – to push culture forward in new and innovative ways.

Speakers:
Stephen Hobbs, Visual Artist and Co-Founder of public art consultancy, The Trinity Session
Gilbert Balinda, Rwandan-Belgian Architect, Educator and Critic
Julia Kabat, Exhibition Manager at Zeitz MOCAA
Kate Otten, South African Architect and Director of Kate Otten Architects (KOA)

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In this conversation, we hope to cultivate an understanding of this rich sculptural history and heritage in the region, as well as to take a look at the evolution of sculptural practice – extending to changes in the societal role of both the object and that of its maker.

Speakers:
Ashraf Jamal, Academic, Writer and Cultural Theorist
Lungiswa Gqunta, Visual Artist working in performance, printmaking, sculpture and installation
Olivia Barrell, Art Historian and Founder of Art Formes
Xhanti Zwelendaba, Visual Artist working in sculpture, printmaking, installation and performance
Hlonipha Mokoena, Historian and Associate Professor at the Wits Institute for Social and Economics Research

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With this in mind, this round-table discussion exists as a kind of group-imagining session in which we're prompted to imagine the future of African Art, and the kinds of institutions we'd like to build moving forward; to find actionable solutions that create long-standing infrastructure, based on the requirements of art institutions on the continent.

Speakers: heeten bhagat, Zimbabwean Researcher, Lecturer and Conceptual Methodologist
Sophia Sanan, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Cultural Policy Consultant, Writer and Project Manager
Phumzile Twala, Arts Practitioner, Writer, Researcher and Public Engagement Curator
Ngaire Blankenberg, Canadian-born South African Museum Designer and Consultant

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Kekana believes art is a powerful social science, shaping society and sparking important conversations. In this panel discussion moderated by Kekana, a range of experts will delve into the ways art is created and experienced.

This extends to identifying other living models often established as alternatives, how they contribute to the dissemination of artistic expression into the broader public space, as well as how they illustrate a capacity to draw from the ways in which everyday people already engage in artistic practice. Recognising the capacity for art to cultivate, record and share knowledge, we are prompted to think also about the extent to which curriculum is informed by African Art, its history, and traditional practices tied to indigenous knowledge systems — in relation to what is inherited from elsewhere, and how this ultimately affects the canon from which art is perceived and judged.

Speakers:
Lebo Kekana, Latitudes Live Curator, Visual Artist and Founding Director of FEDE Arthouse
Lawrence Lemoena, Visual Artist and Lecturer at UNISA, Department of Art and Music
Anelisa Mangcu, Curator and Founding Director at Under the Aegis
Marc Edwards, Senior Lecturer (ret.) Research Associate: Department of Multimedia