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Latitudes Live is a curated programme of talks and activations that are aimed at facilitating and enhancing a holistic fair experience.

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

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)

Please join our art specialists for a walkabout at our viewing rooms. Important examples by Irma Stern, Gerard Sekoto, George Pemba, Sydney Kumalo and William Kentridge, amongst others, will be on show.

The Live Auction will take place in Johannesburg on Tuesday 28 May at 7pm

Viewing Times: 09-28 May: 9am – 4pm or by appointment. Contact danel@straussart.co.za for more information. 40 PAX

Embark on a sensory voyage at Soundlore, where artistry and melody converge in a symphony of artistic expression.⁠

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Departure from RMB Latitudes at 11am for an 11:30 Arrival.

Phumulani Ntuli holds a Masters degree in the Fine Arts–Arts Public Sphere from (ECAV) École Cantonale d’Art du Valais in Sierre, Switzerland and was awarded the Prix–Excellence for his ongoing research project Permutations of an Event centred around notions of archives and surveillance. Ntuli’s opus merges the ambit of artistic research, sculpture, video installations, and performative practice.

Ntuli has presented and contributed work within the context of the 2016 Kampala Biennale in Uganda curated by Elise Atangana; the 2016 Bone Performance Festival in Bern, Switzerland, curated by Valerian Maly; performed in the 2016 Act Festival in Geneva, Basel, Sierre and Zurich; and participated in residencies at the Fondazione Pisteletto in Biella, Italy and the Alps Art Academy in Chur, Switzerland.

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Sculpture has remained a primary form of artistic practice on the African continent. Taking 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

Please join our art specialists for a walkabout at our viewing rooms. Important examples by Irma Stern, Gerard Sekoto, George Pemba, Sydney Kumalo and William Kentridge, amongst others, will be on show.

The Live Auction will take place in Johannesburg on Tuesday 28 May at 7pm

Viewing Times:
09-28 May: 9am – 4pm or by appointment.
Contact danel@straussart.co.za for more information.
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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

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 Lemoana, 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