58 Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD) Established in 2007, the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD) is an interdisciplinary research centre based within the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Johannesburg. VIAD supports an international community of Visiting Professors, Research Associates and Postdoctoral Fellows, whose diverse research projects promote critical thinking (and feeling) around African and African diasporic histories, identities and creative human practices. Reflecting its commitment to practice-led research, VIAD facilitates a dynamic programme of exhibitions, publications and interdisciplinary platforms, presented in collaboration with local and international partners. www.viad.co.za The Paris Albums 1900. Installation view from the exhibition Black Chronicles IV (Curated by Renée Mussai of Autograph ABP, London), FADA Gallery, April-May 2018. Courtesy of the Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo by Anthea Pokroy. Building on the centre’s focus to date on identity construction through forms of visual practice, visual culture and visual representation, projects supported from 2020-22 will contribute toward a critical rethinking of history-making and future-imagining within the historical paradigm (and contemporary afterlives) of racial slavery, colonial modernity and apartheid. Central to this focal area is how cultural and aesthetic practices are enacted as ‘living histories’ and ‘imaginings of the new’ within contexts of racialised, gendered and sexualised violence, and how such practices open to new ways of thinking about freedom, community and what it means to be human. www.instagram.com/viad_fada
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