Dzata: The Institute of Technological Consciousness / Russel Hlongwane (ZA), Lo-Def Factory—Francois Knoetze (ZA), Amy Wilson (ZA)
Dzata: The Institute of Technological Consciousness is an artistic research project by South African artists Russel Hlongwane, Francois Knoetze and Amy Wilson. In fabricating a fictional institute and its archive, the artists imagine centuries-old vernacular technological practices from across the African continent. The work takes the form of video, a creative-critical text, sculptural masks, costumes and devices, and a youth workshop series.
There is a richer and more diverse technological history than the dominant narrative of invention, development and progress. The artists situate their enquiry at the point at which the social, the cultural, the spiritual, the political intersect.
Photo: vog.photo
Dzata: The Institute of Technological Consciousness / Russel Hlongwane (ZA), Lo-Def Factory—Francois Knoetze (ZA), Amy Wilson (ZA)
Dzata: The Institute of Technological Consciousness is an artistic research project by South African artists Russel Hlongwane, Francois Knoetze and Amy Wilson. In fabricating a fictional institute and its archive, the artists imagine centuries-old vernacular technological practices from across the African continent. The work takes the form of video, a creative-critical text, sculptural masks, costumes and devices, and a youth workshop series.
There is a richer and more diverse technological history than the dominant narrative of invention, development and progress. The artists situate their enquiry at the point at which the social, the cultural, the spiritual, the political intersect.
Photo: vog.photo