{"id":52578,"date":"2022-10-22T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=52578"},"modified":"2022-10-27T12:53:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T11:53:17","slug":"presentation-of-panya-routes-independent-art-spaces-in-africa-stokvel-gallery-johannesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=52578","title":{"rendered":"Presentation of\u00a0Panya Routes, hosted by the African Centre for Cities and Stokvel Gallery with guest Mokena Makeka @ Stokvel Gallery, Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Motto Books is pleased to invite you to the presentation of Panya Routes<\/a>, hosted by the African Centre for Cities<\/a> and Stokvel Gallery with guest Mokena Makeka.

22 October 2022
from 12pm<\/strong>

Stokvel Gallery
*NEW ADDRESS*
27 Boxes
4th Ave, Melville
Johannesburg, South Africa

Panya Routes: Independent art spaces in Africa<\/strong><\/a>
Kim Gurney

Independent art spaces on the African continent have flourished, particularly over the past twenty years in tandem with a youthful population in fast-urbanising cities. This book takes the reader on a journey to discover their DIY-DIT working principles: horizontality, second chance, elasticity, performativity and convergence. The itinerary begins at an empty plinth in Cape Town to closely track the performative and artistic afterlife of a colonialist statue whose toppling turned public space into common space. Next stop: Nairobi, Accra, Cairo, Addis Ababa and Dar es Salaam \u2014 all rapidly changing cities of flux. The author visits five non-profit platforms that build narratives in public space by stitching together art and everyday life. They create their own panya routes, or backroad infrastructures of divergent kinds, in response to prevailing uncertainty. Working largely in collaborative economies and solidarity networks through refusal and reimagination, these \u201coff-spaces\u201d demonstrate institution building as artistic practice. By thinking and dreaming beyond the status quo, they fast-forward to creatively inhabit city futures that have already arrived in the global South. The key platforms featured in the book\u2019s research are: The GoDown Arts Centre, ANO Institute of Arts and Knowledge, Townhouse Gallery, Zoma Museum and Nafasi Art Space.

Edited by Mika Hayashi Ebbesen
Graphic design by M\u00e1rcia Novais
Published by Motto Books, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Motto Books is pleased to invite you to the presentation of Panya Routes, hosted by the African Centre for Cities and Stokvel Gallery with guest Mokena Makeka. 22 October 2022from 12pm Stokvel Gallery*NEW ADDRESS*27 Boxes4th Ave, MelvilleJohannesburg, South Africa Panya Routes: Independent art spaces in AfricaKim Gurney Independent art spaces on the African continent have flourished, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3544],"tags":[7935,7938,7136,7940,5965,7939,5500,7934,7936],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52578"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52712,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52578\/revisions\/52712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}