'An Object Is At Least As Unstable As Its Context, Dan Hicks Reminds Us... If We Were To Replace The

'“An object is at least as unstable as its context”, Dan Hicks reminds us... If we were to replace the term “objects” with “belongings”, might it help underline that instability, signal the precarious nature of possession, the ever-shifting, living relations between people, places, and things? Belongings ties up notions of (not) having, of being, of longing. Belongings suggests a multifariousness that requires many modes of telling...

Picture the museum that opens up to such a process, a kind of cultural Truth and Reconciliation Commission: inviting people and artists in communities from which belongings were taken, as well as other artists and even museum visitors, to share—through exchanges, workshops, displays—in shaping other kinds of landscapes for belonging. A landscape where collections are not cut off and fixed in time, but visibly kept in flux as what’s around them changes. A space of reparation—if it might really be possible, as Hartman proposed, “to consider stories as a form of compensation or even as reparations, perhaps the only kind we will ever receive”. A place in which belongings are not just something to look at, but long for-with-through on the understanding that those which are wanted back must be returned.'

'Writing to Life', Priya Basil

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mmm maybe a spin around is needed

⭐️Pre-Intertopia’ ⭐️stems from and draws from the cosmology, spiritual beliefs and ritualistic practices of the Shona people from Zimbabwe and its intersections with speculative interstellar travel 🚀The starting point of this research is attempting frame blackness in all its complexity and multidimensionality in a contemporary context. Wanderlust, movement and transportation between different spacetimes come into the conversation through conceptualising blackness not as a what but as a where and when. 📍- Kumbirai Makumbe