‘Stories of Kalingalinga’ brought together a community of photographers to develop images that question current colonial/post-colonial representations of Zambia and challenge static and outdated visual representations of the African continent. This includes exhibitions in the UK and Germany, accompanied by a workshop; the catalogue ‘Stories of Kalingalinga’; and the symposium ‘Telling our tales through ambiguous photography: Decolonizing the visual library of the African continent’, Anglia Ruskin University.
- Submitting institution
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Anglia Ruskin University Higher Education Corporation
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 918
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge UK; Centre for African Studies, Cambridge University, Cambridge UK; Festival Fotografischer Bilder, Regensburg, Germany.
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
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- Year of first exhibition
- 2020
- URL
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https://figshare.com/s/d881120850e9b9c4e991
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
- Some of the agreed exhibitions in Zambia have been delayed due to the emergency, in particular because of travel restrictions, and will take place in 2021. These include the following venues: Kalingalinga Community Exhibition, Lusaka; Henry Tayali Gallery, Lusaka; Wayi Wayi Art Studio and Gallery, Livingston.
- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The Stories of Kalingalinga research output brought together a community of photographers to develop images that question current colonial/post-colonial representations of Zambia and challenge static and outdated visual representations of the African continent.
Stories of Kalingalinga is a collaboration between Hacker, the National Zambian Visual Arts Council and eleven photographers, who documented the gentrification of Kalingalinga, a densely populated, inner city socially deprived neighbourhood of Lusaka, Zambia. Like in many urban neighbourhoods all over the world Kalingalinga is making the historically and socially significant transition from housing the working and urban poor to accommodating international commercial interests. The contributing photographers were Edith Chiliboy, Danny Chiyesu, Zenzele Chulu, Natalia Gonzalez Acosta, Margaret Malawo, David Daut Makala, Dennis Mubanga, Scotty Jongolo, Muchemwa Sichone, Yande Yombwe.
Decolonizing methodologies and original collaborative creative practice action research methodologies developed organically throughout the collaboration and provide a rigorous framework for Hacker’s research. She seeks to deconstruct inequitable academic research environments in the UK and Zambia in the search for more democratic collaborations and shared artistic making and learning processes. The participatory approach throughout the project continues to nurture a sustainable community of photographic practitioners.
The flexible exhibition concept can adapt end evolve through visitor feedback, while consistently critiquing lingering colonial/post-colonial representations of Zambia. Variations of the exhibition were shown in the UK and Germany in 2020.
The Zambian leg of the project originally planned for 2020 have been postponed due to COVID-19 and will now take place in 2021. The accompanying one- day symposium Telling our tales through ambiguous photography: Decolonizing the visual library of the African continent discussed renewed and diverse visual understandings of the African continent to highlight the importance of practice research, collective making and collaboration between north and south.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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