C& Magazine Special Edition: Weaving Networks, Sa Sa Art Projects

<p>Welcome to this very special print magazine #weavingnetworks!</p> <p>What you find here is the outcome of a very rich and intense journey bringing together new networks and creating exciting synergies literally across the globe.</p> <p>We are Contemporary And (C&), a platform, which features and links the important, multilayered work by cultural producers from Africa and the global Diaspora. Since almost ten years, C& is a global, constantly growing network of the most diverse voices, sharing (hi-)stories, experiences and debates around contemporary visual art. The C& Cosmos comprises content and events happening online, offline, and in-between: Through language. Through digitality. Through encounters.</p> <p>We are thrilled to have been invited by documenta fifteen to realize the project Weaving Networks: On Paper, in Places. Global networking is the basis of our work. In this context, C&, in collaboration with four collectives of the lumbung and four writers from our C& community created four very different print editions of which you are finally holding one in your hand!</p> <p>What happened: each C& writer spend time with one collective respectively in their local context to get a sense of their visions, practice, communities and environment. The outcome are four very different and very unique texts reflecting on this special experience. C& writer Yina Jiménez Suriel from the Dominican Republic travelled to be with Más Arte Más Acción (MAMA) in Bogotá in Colombia. Gloria Kiconco from Uganda spend time with The Black Archives in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Serine Ahefa Mekoun from Belgium and Togo visited SaSa Art Projects in Phnom Penh in Cambodia whilst Russel Hlongwane from South Africa got to know the collective practice of Jatiwangi Art Factory in Jatiwangi in Indonesia.</p> <p>The physical result of these different and intense encounters which stretched and expanded our C& networks in a new and beautiful way are four editions designed and printed by the four collectives: While each print edition contains the four texts by our C& writers and a text by Abdul Halik Azeez, the layout is very different in terms of look, feel and spirit. The biggest part is being distributed locally within the different communities of the four collectives. A smaller part of the editions is also distributed in Kassel…</p>