De-confining: the Listening Laboratory with UKUBUYISWA

De-confining: the Listening Laboratory with UKUBUYISWA

“Ukukhapha precedes ukubuyisa.”

Rather than presenting finished conclusions, we are opening the project early — inviting colleagues, collaborators, and practitioners into a live thinking space where the methods, ethics, and questions of the work can be tested, challenged, and refined together.
This first exchange introduces Ukubuyiswa’s research as it begins unfolding through collaboration with the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb, engaging histories embedded in collections gathered during 19th-century expeditions and later entangled in the political imaginaries of the Non-Aligned era.

The conversation will gather artists, researchers, curators, and collaborators connected to the project in a dialogue on:
– what ethical repair looks like in practice
– where restitution processes fail relationally
– how institutions remain accountable over time
– what kinds of slowness, refusal, or opacity might this work require
In this room, the audience becomes part of the thinking body.

25 March 2026
12:00–13:00 CET
Zoom
Meeting ID: 813 0225 1103
Passcode: 579627
We look forward to opening the conversation.
#Ukubuyiswa #CodeOfRepair #Restitution #MuseumEthics #DecolonialPractice #AfricaEuropeDialogue

Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81302251103?pwd=ojg3Dj75faLPvwTcHftQ57C3abpvP9.1