OtherNetwork: Delay and Encounter and/or Other Proximate Unknowns

Following the debut OtherNetwork exhibition curated by Foundation for Contemporary Art-Ghana at ifa Gallery Stuttgart in 2022, the curatorial project continues in the form of a relay. For the second iteration, FCA-Ghana have invited NGO–Nothing Gets Organised from Johannesburg to guest curate an exhibition at their own space in Accra. The project ‘Delay and Encounter and/or Other Proximate Unknowns’ enters a dialogue with the figure of W.E.B. Du Bois, whose final home and resting place is the site of the exhibition.

Grappling with a certain intimate disorganisation within the conditions of the Black Outside, the curatorial project brings together six artistic positions that think about sonicity and Black study, built environments and spatial discourse, ecologies, processes of collectivity and archiving. From this vantage point, outside denotes a particular spatio-temporal disposition. The Black Outside can thus be understood as a paradoxical assemblage of malleable and contingent forms of being, doing, occupying, and inhabiting.