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Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria 2022 Programme Announcement

Situated in the heart of Tshwane, The Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria is the home of countless pan-African artistic practices. It is a space that enhances unique transdisciplinary learning through the arts and is focused on engaging diverse publics through creativity in exploring the human condition and reimagining our futures. The Javett-UP 2022 programme in its inclusivity, care, new knowledge sustainability and contemporary heritage contexts is a reflection of these ideals. “Our programme for 2022 is intended at shifting traditional perceptions of how art institutions operate in our region. It is an acknowledgement that if the sector has to sustain itself, it has to begin to understand that competing for a share of the market within the context of the social value of the arts and visitor experience is becoming a norm. We will be staging high-quality curatorial activations and interruptions, interfaced with exciting unconventional public engagement events in all spheres, including indoor-outdoor, virtual and remote. We will explore notions of access through a pan-African lens of creative discoveries,” said Lekgetho Makola, CEO of Javett-UP. After, its launch in 2019 and subsequent Covid-19 temporal closures the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria is excited to launch its 2022 programme beginning with Yakhal’Inkomo: The Bongi Dhlomo Collection, opening on 26 March 2022, closing on 15 January 2023. Internationally acclaimed curator Tumelo Mosaka joins the Javett-UP as the guest curator and is supported by Sipho Mndanda as co-curator and Phumzile Nombuso Twala as education and research coordinator. Yakhal’ Inkomo is an exhibition drawing from The Bongi Dhlomo Collection on long- term loan at the Javett-UP. The title is borrowed from saxophonist and composer Winston Mankunku Ngozi’s 1968 historic influential jazz masterpiece. The exhibition will feature both visual art from the collection and other artistic expressions (photography, film, poetry, drama) from the same period. “This curatorial project is an opportunity for us to explore the creative impulses that reflect directly on our histories and collective trauma experienced by generations of Black people in South Africa, says Javett-UP Curatorial Director Gabi Ngcobo. “Ngozi’s 1968 jazz composition Yakhal’inkomo and the exhibition that takes it as a starting point, compels us to search further and to develop various tools for unpacking the various ways history continues to shape the present. It places us in a catalytic position for the reimaging of more enabling futures, especially for those of us who still find themselves bellowing in the face of social, political and economic injustices. The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive educational mediation and public engagement programme taking place at the Javett-UP, online and in locations around Gauteng. It will feature film screenings, conversations, workshops and performances. SCENORAMA – The Pilot THE VISIONARY AWARD FREQUENCIES THE PLANT LABORATORY