This event brings together Keleketla! Library (Johannesburg), The Black Archives (Amsterdam), and Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong)—three lumbung artists that imagine and activate libraries and archives as sites of storytelling and community building. We ask: What are the limitations of the libraries and archives that inform our understanding of storytelling and how do we challenge these limitations? The conversation will also invite other lumbung artists to share their stories and culminate into an after party with music selected by the participants.

A performance by Agus Nur Amal PMTOH telling the story of the formerly uninhabited island of Lombok, Indonesia. After the volcanic explosion of Mount Merapi people who lived around the island worked collectively to cultivate its fertile grounds, grow rice, harvest and feast together.

Hosted by AWAL oral art and research collective and in a two-part performance between two locations, Moroccan visual artist Imane Zoubai packs and unpacks shared musical territories in a moment of reminiscing. Using musical elements from feasts and celebrations, she shows her soil, organises it and reimposes it on Kassel’s soil as if to sow soil in soil. In the first act, Imane begins by tfrash/ تفرش or laying out fields to prepare and wait for bread to bake; in the second act, Imane continues by unpacking the soil elsewhere and inviting others to do the same.

Conversation with the artist Abdoulaye Konaté about his work “Homage to the hunters of the Mande” and its link with the concept of the Maaya Bulon (vestibule).

In 1972, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established on the parliamentary lawns in Canberra to challenge the status, treatment, and rights of Aboriginal people in Australia. As a direct quotation of this activist strategy of protest, Richard Bell’s own Embassy (2013–) is a public space for imagining and articulating alternate futures and reflecting on or retelling stories of oppression and displacement. Each activation of Embassy brings together artists, thinkers and guests invited by Richard Bell to discuss issues and struggles they find most significant in their localities and socio-political contexts.

A live public conversation curated by the members of Another Roadmap Africa Cluster ARAC, Centre d’art Waza, and Graziela Kunsch on the theme of horizontal education.