OtherNetwork Conversations – Details, episodes & analysis

KINSHASA | BERLIN

OtherNetwork Conversations is a podcast series that highlights some of the cultural projects reshaping the art world today. For this episode, founders of the Kinshasa-based art platform Laboratoire Kontempo discuss their extended practice through the Congolese capital over the past decade. Together with Cameroonian curator Dzekashu MacViban as their guest, Lydia Schellhammer and Christ Mukenge from Laboratoire Kontempo discuss their upcoming curatorial project “Kokende Liboso Eza Kokoma Te”, which centres around proverbs in different cultures throughout the African continent.

https://othernetwork.io

OtherNetwork is a project initiated by Cookies together with ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen. This Conversations series is generously supported by Between Bridges.

Produced by Federico Martelli & Colin Keays
Hosted by Federico Martelli & Colin Keays
Sound Design, Editing and Production by Jack Bardwell.
Music by Jack Bardwell.
Graphic Identity by F451 Studio

OtherNetwork research team includes Abraham Tettey, Samantha Modisenyane, Camilo Quiroga, Camila Alegría, Matheus dos Reis.

SANTIAGO

Join us at Galeria Cima, located in the heart of Santiago, Chile. Camila Alegria and Federico Martelli from OtherNetwork recently sat down with Trinidad Lopetegui and Sebastian Rojas, the founders of the gallery. Later in the conversation, Trinidad and Sebastian were joined by Daniel Aguayo, a cultural producer based in Santiago and the founder of SPECIFIC.

During the discussion, they delve into the pivotal role that Cima gallery played during the social unrest that swept through the city in October 2019, with the public square at the foot of their space serving as its epicentre. Leveraging makeshift technology, they initially observed, recorded, and ultimately broadcasted the protests via their public social media channels. This landmark event raised new questions about the potential roles that independent art spaces could assume within a society facing diverse forms of pressure.

Some links related to this episode:

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estallido_social
https://www.voluspajarpa.com/en/
https://galeriacima.cl/en-vivo/

The episode can be found in Spanish on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Youtube. An English transcription is available at othernetwork.io/productions

https://othernetwork.io

OtherNetwork is a project initiated by Cookies together with ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen. This Conversations series is generously supported by Between Bridges.

Produced & Hosted by Federico Martelli & Colin Keays
Sound Design, Editing and Production by Jack Bardwell.
Music by Jack Bardwell.
Graphic Identity by F451 Studio

OtherNetwork research team includes Abraham Tettey, Samantha Modisenyane, Camilo Quiroga, Camila Alegría, Matheus dos Reis.

ACCRA | JOHANNESBURG

Join us in Accra at the Foundation for Contemporary Art - Ghana for an extra special episode, recorded following the opening of the latest OtherNetwork exhibition guest curated by NGO (Nothing Gets Organised) from Johannesburg. FCA Ghana co-director Ato Annan discusses how the space became a hub for Accra’s wider artistic community, before being joined by Sinethemba Twalo from NGO to talk about collaborative modes of artistic production, and their mutual appreciation of the inspirational figure of W.E.B. Du Bois, whose final home and resting place sets the scene for the episode.

Some links related to this episode:

https://fcaghana.org/
https://nothing.org.za/
Bisi Silva https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/4351-bisi-silva
Asiko Art School https://contemporaryand.com/institue/asiko-art-school/
Exit Frame Collective https://www.instagram.com/_exitframe/?hl=en
https://contemporaryand.com/exhibition/du-bois-in-our-time/
Nii Noi Nortey https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/nii-noi-nortey/
WEB DuBois https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois

https://othernetwork.io

OtherNetwork is a project initiated by Cookies together with ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen. This Conversations series is generously supported by Between Bridges.

Produced by Federico Martelli & Colin Keays
Hosted by Federico Martelli & Colin Keays
Sound Design, Editing and Production by Jack Bardwell.
Music by Jack Bardwell.
Graphic Identity by F451 Studio

OtherNetwork research team includes Abraham Tettey, Samantha Modisenyane, Camilo Quiroga, Camila Alegría, Matheus dos Reis.

Accra | New York. Join us at the Museum of Science and Technology in Accra, Ghana for a conversation between Nuna Adisenu-Doe, founder of the nomadic Compound House Gallery, and Ylinka Barotto, director at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York. Together they unpack the thriving art scene in Accra and the growing global recognition of Ghanaian artists. They delve into the importance of the art school at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi as a site for the emergence of new collective practices, and the relationship between the global commercial art world and the more independent scene emerging in Ghana.

Some links related to the episode:
https://www.instagram.com/compoundhousegallery/
https://www.miandn.com/exhibitions/worldmaking
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2023/08/14/studio-visit-gideon-appah/
blacksTARLINES https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/6/article/791973/pdf

https://othernetwork.io

OtherNetwork is a project initiated by Cookies together with ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen. This Conversations series is generously supported by Between Bridges.

Produced by Federico Martelli & Colin Keays
Hosted by Federico Martelli, Abraham Tettey & Colin Keays
Sound Design, Editing and Production by Jack Bardwell
Music by Jack Bardwell
Graphic Identity by F451 Studio

OtherNetwork research team includes Abraham Tettey, Samantha Modisenyane, Camilo Quiroga, Camila Alegría, Matheus dos Reis.

Rotterdam | Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Join us for the first episode of OtherNetwork Conversations, where we visit Shimmer in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Shimmer is an exhibition space run with a studio-like mentality by artist Jason Hendrik Hansma and curator Eloise Sweetman, who invite Ruth Buchanan, director of Artspace Aotearoa in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland as their guest. Together we discuss the different approaches to founding a new art space versus inheriting one with a longstanding history, and the responsibilities a curator has to both artists and audiences.

Some links related to this episode:
https://shimmershimmer.org/
https://jasonhendrikhansma.com/
https://artspace-aotearoa.nz/
https://studio-ruthbuchanan.net/
https://maaikeschoorel.com/

https://othernetwork.io

OtherNetwork is a project initiated by Cookies together with ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen. This Conversations series is generously supported by Between Bridges.

Produced by Federico Martelli & Colin Keays
Hosted by Federico Martelli & Colin Keays
Sound Design, Editing and Production by Jack Bardwell.
Music by Jack Bardwell.
Graphic Identity by F451 Studio

OtherNetwork research team includes Abraham Tettey, Samantha Modisenyane, Camilo Quiroga, Camila Alegría, Matheus dos Reis.