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4:00 PM
Institution-Building Tactics and Artistic Thinking in Independent Art Spaces
Public Lecture|Residency Re-Sourced
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Online Online
- Language English (with French interpretation available)
- Price Free Entry
What sustains independent art spaces—and how might we theorise their resilience?
Across the African continent, independent art spaces have emerged as critical sites for cultural production, experimentation, and community-building. They operate within shifting social, political, and economic contexts, often navigating limited resources through inventive models of institution-building and artistic thinking.
This lecture considers these spaces not merely as physical sites but as living frameworks shaped by histories, local conditions, and collective agency. It invites us to examine how independent art spaces - and in particular artist residency spaces – can generate knowledge, foster mobility, and reimagine institutional possibilities.
Join us for the inaugural Residency Re-Sourced Public Lecture, a virtual gathering of minds exploring how independent art spaces across Africa are built, sustained, and reimagined.
Speaker: Kim Gurney (Cape Town, South Africa) — Writer, Researcher, Artist Co discussant/Moderator: Tony Agbapuonwu (Lagos, Nigeria) — Curator
Date: 6th August 2025 Time: 4 PM (WAT) Venue: Online (Zoom) — https://goethe-institut.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-fLhxh4LSWS7assDJ6F9Zw
Passcode: 0L.DUg
Languages: English (with French interpretation available)
This lecture is open to artists, curators, cultural workers, residency space organisers, and anyone interested in the futures of creative practice and cultural infrastructure on the continent.
Across the African continent, independent art spaces have emerged as critical sites for cultural production, experimentation, and community-building. They operate within shifting social, political, and economic contexts, often navigating limited resources through inventive models of institution-building and artistic thinking.
This lecture considers these spaces not merely as physical sites but as living frameworks shaped by histories, local conditions, and collective agency. It invites us to examine how independent art spaces - and in particular artist residency spaces – can generate knowledge, foster mobility, and reimagine institutional possibilities.
Join us for the inaugural Residency Re-Sourced Public Lecture, a virtual gathering of minds exploring how independent art spaces across Africa are built, sustained, and reimagined.
Speaker: Kim Gurney (Cape Town, South Africa) — Writer, Researcher, Artist Co discussant/Moderator: Tony Agbapuonwu (Lagos, Nigeria) — Curator
Date: 6th August 2025 Time: 4 PM (WAT) Venue: Online (Zoom) — https://goethe-institut.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-fLhxh4LSWS7assDJ6F9Zw
Passcode: 0L.DUg
Languages: English (with French interpretation available)
This lecture is open to artists, curators, cultural workers, residency space organisers, and anyone interested in the futures of creative practice and cultural infrastructure on the continent.
