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Chimurenga Library Exhibition in Frieze Magazine
Chimurenga Library exhibition at ...for those who live in it: Pop-culture politics and strong voices
MU, Eindhoven, Netherlands, May 21 - August 1, 2010
Reviewed in Frieze Magazine: "The politico-literary collective Chimurenga, primarily a twice-yearly pan-African journal, induced a more productive confusion with the show's most impressive single project: a Borgeso-Bolanian (or Nkrumah-Mbembian ...) post-colonial library, consisting of a contingently (as opposed to systematically) conceived bibliographical index, an intriguing spiderweb diagram, Chimurenga back issues, and artist cards...." Read the full review here.
Photo Gallery
Photographs from Chimurenga Magazine's recent Chimurenga Library exhibition at MU, Eindhoven, Netherlands are now up in the Photo Gallery.
Chimurenga Library Exhibition
May 2 - June 21
Central Library, Drill Hall, c/o Darling and Parade Street, Cape Town
The Chimurenga Library is an online archive of pan African, independent periodicals. It is also the exhibition concept devised by the editors of Chimurenga for Cape Africa Platform 2009.
Presented in and around the newly launched Cape Town Central Library from May 2 - June 21, the project embodies the proposition evoked by the title by "finding oneself," as Moses Molelekwa put it, on the shelves of the Central Library; or quietly encroaching upon its classification system; or proposing a navigation system, clearly subjective and affective, for content found both in Chimurenga and the collection of the Central Library.
Details here.
Photo Gallery
Photographs from Chimurenga Magazine's recent Chimurenga Library introspective at the Central Library are now up in the exhibition Photo Gallery.
Chimurenga Library Exhibition in the media
- THE CHIMURENGA LIBRARY - RECLASSIFIED on Pythagoras TV
- Cape 09: review by Sean O'Toole in Frieze Magazine Issue 125, September 2009
- Review By Bettina Malcolmess on Artthrob
- Let's change the subject by MATTHEW KROUSE in the Mail & Guardian
- Review by Melvyn Minnaar in the Cape Times - 12 May 2009
- For Those Who Live In It by Daniel Miller, Frieze Magazine, Issue 134, October 2010
