10 Oct 2017 | Kapwani Kiwanga – Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV), Dortmund
Kapwani Kiwanga
Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention
Group exhibition curated by Inke Arns and Fabian Saavedra-Lara
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV), Dortmund
October 21, 2017 - April 22, 2018
“The exhibition Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention curated by Inke Arns and Fabian Saavedra-Lara creates a link between Afrofuturism and alternative technological energies and imaginations. The speculative narratives formulated in the artistic works are placed in a relationship with real inventions from the maker scene in various countries in Africa. The result is a kind of dual alienation: While the artistic works decidedly design African and diasporan science fiction narratives, the real inventions appear as proofs of an already commenced with technological development. The exhibition presents Africa as a continent of technological innovation…”
