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Brittle Paper: Chimurenga Collective Awarded Vera List Center’s 2018-20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice
Oct 8, 2018
Chimurenga Collective Awarded Vera List Center’s 2018-20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice
Leading arts & politics collective Chimurenga has been awarded the Vera List Center for Art and Politics’ 2018-20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice. The announcement was made at the New School, New York, where the Center is based. Named after the New York dealer Jane Lombard, the $25,000 Prize “recognizes one social justice–minded artist or art collective every other year.”
Founded in 2002 by Cameroonian writer Ntone Edjabe, Chimurenga—which means “liberation struggle” in Zimbabwe’s Shona language—is a multi-form platform based in South Africa. Among its projects are the culture, art and politics publication Chimurenga Magazine, the quarterly broadsheet The Chronic, the online resource of collected independent pan-African periodicals and personal books Chimurenga Library, the biennial publication of urban life, Africa-style, African Cities Reader, and the online radio station and pop-up studio Pan African Space Station (PASS). The projects are meant “not just to produce new knowledge, but rather to express the intensities of our world, to capture those forces and to take action,” and collectively they have started conversations about African cultures, including the rewriting of the continent’s history, the role technology plays in its future, and its music scene. Their motto has been “Who No Know Go Know”—the ones who do not know will know.