20 Emergent Practice 2 7 – 30 August Goethe-Institut Emergent Practice is a twopart exhibition (EP1 and EP2), which the GSA has been hosting at the GoetheInstitut in Johannesburg at the invitation of Dr Asma Diakité. Dr Diakité invited us to use the space to exhibit work that might not ordinarily find a place in the established gallery/exhibition spaces that typify the Johannesburg scene. In EP1 we highlighted the work of Fred Swart, the GSA graphic designer, in promoting the ‘Emergent Practices’ featuring in the public programme of the School. EP2 features recent GSA graduates, Simphiwe Mlambo, Patricia Bandora, Titus Shitaatala, and is co-curated by another recent graduate, Chinenye Chukwuka, and GSA Unit 7 Lead and Making and Practice Convenor, Ngillan Faal. The work of these graduates reflects the ambition and the diversity that characterise the transformative work of the School in the form of emergent practices. The platform offered by the gallery is intended to springboard ideas and artists to continue making necessary and relevant work beyond the Goethe-Institut. Practice Lecture Series 2024 July – August 2024 Online MS Teams Practice Lecture Series 2024: A series of lectures by architects and creative practitioners on how they work. The lecture series took place from July-August 2024. Titus Shitaatala, GSA Unit 20 alum, received the prestigious Chancellor’s Medal 29 July 2024. Titus’s MArch project, titled “The Archive of Silence(s): Redistributing Archival Power through Phygital Spaces in Pretoria,” was supervised by @gsa_unit20 co-leads, Dickson Adu-Adgyei and Veronica Chipwanya. Titus’ project uses Marabastad as a tester site – the Archive of Silence(s) looks to decentralise and redistribute archival power from the biased National Archives of South Africa to South African communities. Following the state’s attempts to rid Pretoria of townships in 2023, the frequent demolitions and the subsequent soil erosion will see Marabastad develop into a dust wasteland stripped of its heritage by the year 2045. The remaining residents begin to build the Archive of Silence(s) using a robotic arm, cotton canvas, steel and artifact-embedded concrete-methylcellulose panels in a process that subverts the discriminatory archival system practised at the National Archives. The archive is built to describe chosen community narratives using artefacts of memory and is designed to decay and be rebuilt after every twenty years to grant future generations the opportunity to spatially reconstruct history as a manifesto for their future. Chancellor’s Medal
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