Global Blackness Summer School ‘22 / Black Geographies, of Care
#1 “Whisper Network, Intelsat 502” / Artist talk & screening: Thandi Loewenson & Danielle Bowler (online)
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This year’s Global Blackness Summer School commences with an online artist talk by Thandi Loewenson, RGC’s inaugural Black Digital South Artist-in-residence, facilitated by writer, musician and RGC PhD Fellow Danielle Bowler.
As an architectural designer and researcher who thinks, dreams and imagines land and space otherwise, Thandi’s work deeply engages this year’s theme Black Geographies, of Care – which speaks to and engages “practises and processes of Black spacemaking” across place and space.
Describing her practise as one that “mobilises design, fiction and performance to stoke embers of emancipatory political thought and fires of collective action, and to feel for the contours of other, possible worlds”, Thandi’s talk will include a special showing of her video work Whisper Network Intelsat 502, and map the ways she uses “fiction as a design tool and tactic” while working in “the overlapping realms of the weird, the tender, the earthly and the airborne”.
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Thandi’s video work Whisper Network Intelsat 502 (2022) is available to view via our online screening room over the course of this year’s Global Blackness Summer School (22 Nov - 17 Dec 2022). Thank you Thandi for making this limited-window screening possible!
Link to screening room
Click here for Thandi Loewenson’s bio