STUDIO NEWS: ‘Unsettling the Single Society’, NWU Gallery, 6 April - 31 May 2022

The NWU Gallery presents “Unsettling the Single Society” exhibition inspired by the 2022 African Critical Inquiry Workshop (ACIP). The exhibition seeks to challenge the myth that settler colonialism and the attendant idea of separate societies ended in 1994.

By bringing together debates in the fields of history and social anthropology, the ACIP workshop will encourage questions around how settler colonialism was, and still is, a structure of domination that continues into the present. It will seek to critique the idea of separate societies through themes that structure the historical and ongoing composition of our settler colonial world: themes of belonging and unbelonging; symbolic and material labour; land and landscape; structural and direct violence; and contested knowledges. 

Get a virtual walkthrough of the exhibition HERE: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=1eGaAYhNkv8

Also running concurrently is the Visual Narratives and Creative Outputs through Interdisciplinary and Practice-Led Research niche’s race awareness week postcards initiative.