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Invade

Item date(s): 2018

Thanduxolo Mwelase - (colaborative member)
Omphemetse Ramatlhatse - (colaborative member)
Tammi Mbambo - (colaborative member)
Oratile Papi Konopi - (colaborative member)
Lindelwa Masuku - (colaborative member)
Queenzela Mokoena - (colaborative member)
Bill Kouelany - (colaborative member)
Kglalelo Shoni - (colaborative member)

Collation: 12 items in a concertina file

Type: Zine
Sub-type: Zine
Theme(s): What you are ‘writing’, what you are ‘reading’, and why now … With whom, for whom and/or for what…How will your ‘letters’ reach recipients?

Publisher: Invade Collective

Additional notes:
ON COLLECTIVITIES AND EDITORIAL FRAMEWORKS

• How effectively and in what ways do the collective publication articulate the editorial framework?

• Building from the above question, how coherent is the collective voice?

• How effectively did the collective engage the Medu Art Ensemble?

• In relation to Medu, how does the collective engage the prompts: (What changed? What shifted?

What remains the same? What now?)

• Does the publication/online platform indicate an engaged and deep commitment to unpack, edit,

expand and deepen each content in relation to the editorial

frameworks/provocations/manifestos/questions/positions/speculations…?

ON FORM & MAKING

• How did the collective publication push the limits of RISOgraph printmaking?

• Does the publication as it stands demonstrate a sound understanding of the limits and possibilities of

RISOgraph printmaking?

• To what extent do the form - including ‘binding/assembly/presentation’

match/complement/complicate the content and the editorial

frameworks/provocations/manifestos/questions/positions/speculations…?

Reference note:
Led by Rangoato Hlasani, the Wits School of Arts, Department of Fine Art, Drawing and Contemporary Practice III course is premised on the place and role of collective publishing by artists as a principle that introduces students to art collectivities. Key outcomes important to the success of the course is for each collective to introduce and map their editorial frameworks/provocations/manifestos/questions/positions/speculations…through their publications.

This hand-made work presents as a concertina file with decorated covers using the word 'invade' in red ink. It deploys the twelve partitions numbered 1 to 12 and January to December each containing a zine(s).

1. Four folded single-page zines. Two identical red and two identical green zines.

2. The Gender "Challenge". By Tammi Mbambo.

3. Rape Culture.

4. Usabani Politics. By Oratile Papi Konopi.

5. A Victim of a Contemporary colonizer. By Lindelwa Masuku.

6. A took a doy off from men.

7. A mortal religion. By Queenzela Mokoena.

8. To Note. Decorative pamphlet.

9. Childhood Snapshots.

10. Scefe Politics.

11. We Need Leaders. By Oratile Papi Konopi. (2pp)

12. Duplicates.

Exhibition notes:
Samplings: South African Artists' Books

Basement Gallery, WAM

26 March to 6 July 2019

Ref: GB/16276