VIAD FADA
The Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD) is an intersectional platform dedicated to critical exchange and research around world-building through radical creative practice and critical theory. VIAD provides a critical space wherein visual representation becomes a means to prompt social, economic, environmental and political transformation though decolonial practice. Research conducted under VIAD’s auspices explores how the work of the radical imagination, as realised through contemporary and historical African and African-Diasporic art, design and other forms of creative practices, allows for re-conceptions, embodiments and performances that contribute to a re-imagining and possible formation of a ‘New Real’. VIAD’s conceptual underpinnings are encapsulated in its two research strands: RADICAL | OTHERS (R | O) and BIOART + DESIGN AFRICA (BA+DA). Learn more about what we do on our website.
the Imagined New Volume III Thought Dialogues: CONFRONTING VIOLENCE AND CATASTROPHE
Inaugural Lecture for Prof Oron Catts's appointment as Visiting Professor in VIAD
The Imagined New Volume III: Albert Khoza Performance
To Be Queer in African Cultures and Traditions: "The Power of Communities"- PANEL 2
To Be Queer and African: "Making Africa Possible" (after Keguro Macharia)- A ROUNDTABLE
Nyami Nyami - Zebra Collective Interview
Nyami Nyami - Zebra Collective Performance
Nelisiwe Xaba vRot performance, documentary
And Those Keen Shafts of Memory by Oupa Sibeko and Lerato Matalodi
To be Queer in African Cultures and Traditions: "The Power of Communities" - PANEL 1
INTRA-ACTIONS #8: Dzata Institute of Technological Consciousness–Perform lecture by Russel Hlongwane
INTRA-ACTIONS #7: Biomedical complexities – Mutsawashe Mutendi, Stacy Hardy and Louise Westerhout
INTRA-ACTIONS #6: My country is full of holes and so is my body–A performance lecture by Stacy Hardy
INTRA-ACTIONS #5: Bodies of Social Justice – Dean Hutton and Ferrial Adam in conversation
Imminent and Eminent Ecologies 2025: Exhibition Documentary Video
#BLACKBOX: Tech-Futures & Poetics in Black Digital Art - Nolan Oswald Dennis & Russel Hlongwane
"Chant for Disinheriting Apartheid": A performance lecture by Nhlanhla Mahlangu
INTRA-ACTIONS #2: The World After Us - A Presentation by Prof Nathaniel Stern
Book Launch: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay's "The Jewelers of the Ummah ..."
#BLACKBOX: Excess, Blackness & Many Selves - A Conversation with Thembeka Sincuba and Puleng Mongale
Reflections on documenta 15
The Imagined New Thinking Dialogue II: Imagination in Emergency
The Imagined New Thinking Dialogue I: Imagine you're in a Museum, now, imagine a New Museum
Inaugural Lecture for Prof Anthony Bogues's appointment as Distinguished Visiting Professor in VIAD
INTRA-ACTIONS #4: The Poetry and Politics of rot - Nelisiwe Xaba, Kamogelo Walaza & Dineo Diphofa
INTRA-ACTIONS #3: An Infectious Feeling - Eric Gyamfi and Ama Josephine B. Johnstone in conversation
CMRC: SYM BIO ART Nelisiwe Xaba vRot Performance 2023
CMRC: SYM BIO ART Exhibition Documentary Video
INTRA-ACTIONS #1: SYM | BIO | ART Panel Discussion
Aus Panel Discussion with Leora Farber : Microbes, Mushrooms and Material Matters: