News and updates from the Nest Collective.
ON INSTAGRAM:
The Visual Identities in Art and Design’s (VIAD) Reading The Moment webinar session titled ‘So Much ‘Africa’ Photography, So Few African Photographers’ that featured an insightful conversation with our very own Jim Chuchu, alongside Olfa Feki (independent curator), Lekgetho Makola of Javett Art Centre, and Marwa Abou Leila of Photopia Cairo is now available to watch on their YouTube channel!
Read MoreEarlier this year, we announced that our very own Jim Chuchu was selected as one of 20 TED Fellows this year. As part of the program, the fellows, all from numerous sectors and disciplines, share insights from their learning and work through a TED talk.
Read MoreOur very own Jim Chuchu and Njoki Ngumi recorded a series of conversations titled ‘Invisible Conversations’! It is a limited podcast series where artists and curators expound further on their works, currently being presented at the ongoing Invisible Inventories exhibition. The exhibition, and other previous interventions like the Object Movement Dialogues, are part of the International Inventories Programme.
Read MoreOur very own Njoki Ngumi and Jim Chuchu were panelists at the Following The Trail discourse event alongside Alexis Th. Von Poser (deputy director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art (Berlin), and Miranda Lowe (principal curator and scientist at the Natural History Museum in London).
Read MoreOur very own Jim Chuchu had an insightful conversation with the wonderful folks at Goethe-Institut Kenya for their podcast series, Decolonise The Internet! This is part of Goethe’s podcast series featuring experts in different professions who talk about how they and their fields are affected by AI.
Read MoreOur very own Njoki Ngumi and Jim Chuchu in collaboration with Chao Tayiana of African Digital Heritage, and independent curators Kahira Ngige and Rosie Olang will be taking part in the Unexpected Lessons Symposium co-hosted digitally by Nairobi and Berlin! Unexpected Lessons is a performative discursive event by Talking Objects Lab, a think tank, exhibition and event series that features video conversations, lectures, talks and discussions by different cultural curators, researchers and artists from around the world exploring the topic ‘Decolonizing Knowledge and Memory’.
Read MoreOur very own Jim Chuchu did an Instagram Live with our day one squad and collaborator, GALCK! GALCK is an umbrella body that works to provide safe and enabling spaces for LGBTQ+ persons in Kenya—doing incredible advocacy, community and strategy work at all levels
Our first series of 3 public online conversations from our hybrid online arts Stroom Den Haag residency, Material Languages, is with our very own Jim Chuchu. The online presentation will explore Jim’s Material Languages project ‘A Machine Dreams of African Print’, envisioning, through textiles and design, a future in which machines take on part of the labour of creative ideation.
Read MoreOur very own Jim Chuchu and Njoki Ngumi will be panelists at the Following The Trail discourse event alongside Alexis Th. Von Poser (deputy director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art (Berlin), and Miranda Lowe (principal curator and scientist at the Natural History Museum in London).
Read MoreOur very own Njoki Ngumi and Jim Chuchu will be in conversation with the SHIFT Collective and Tuzi Creatives, speaking about their respective featured artworks in the Invisible Inventories exhibition. They'll discuss the concepts behind the artworks, and will also be answering all your questions about any of the artworks featured in the exhibition! They'll be online today (Wednesday 14th April 2021) at 7PM EAT, live on the International Inventories Programme’s Youtube page!
Read MoreOur very own Jim Chuchu was selected as one of 20 global trailblazers for the incredible 2021 TED Fellow Program! The TED Fellow Program is a TED initiative program that convenes young visionaries who have and continue to show inspiring work and accomplishments in their respective disciplines. The program provides revolutionary support to those selected, in order that they may collaborate, and share new ideas and research across disciplines, to create positive change around the world.
Read MoreOur very own Jim Chuchu will be in conversation with the Zeitz MOCAA- Museum of Contemporary Art Africa’s Senior Curator, Storm Janse van Rensburg, speaking on the different ways storytelling can make invincible voices visible, how art can be used to enhance ongoing discussions around queerness, decolonization and much more!
Read More
