Ingesting Architectures unpacks the intentional and violent application of dust in the malevolent statecraft of South Africa’s Apartheid government. Through separation from the soil that makes belonging and connection to ancestral knowing, dust was a tool for the slow disintegration of the physical black body alongside the slow dismantling of the black mind.
Participants
COUNTERSPACE
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
Sumayya Vally, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1990. Lives and works in London, UK, and Johannesburg, South Africa.
Thanks
John Ruskin; Ivan Olita; A Common Future; Jason Larkin; Lebo Tshangela for SABC News; Soliman Anees; Mark Lewis; Richard Du Toit/Minden Pictures; Thomson Reuters Foundation; Jacques Naude; Retrofootage/ Pond5; Palestine Remix/Al Jazeera; Jamal Nxedlana; Dumisani Dube; Catherine Hyland; British Pathé; Alexander Tiernan
Supporters
Yokohama Triennale 2020
