African Fashion Research Institute
OPEN CALL: The Fold Gloss_ary The act of layering one thing onto another is being called on; to expand on how we describe the action, the intention, or the reason of folding in the realm of fashion from the African continent. We are seeking 54 entries as 1-minute voice-notes or 1-minute video recordings in all […]
OPEN CALL: Pan-African Research Residency 2023 The Pan-African Research Residency is a fashion-led cultural exchange program attempting to engage with knowledge around the production of barkcloth and Isidwaba, a pleated leather skirt worn by married Zulu women. THE FOLD ‘The Fold’ is an interdisciplinary multimedia project curated by the African Fashion Research Institute in collaboration […]
African Fashion (?) Why do these stereotypes exist and persist? African Fashion (?) is an online, discursive course designed to invite engagement in debates and provocations both as a group and individually. Particular attention is paid to confronting the deep impact of coloniality/modernity in negotiating ways of thinking and writing about fashion from the African […]
Register for: Future of Fashion – A sustainable fashion indaba Future of Fashion is a sustainable fashion indaba dedicated to enabling collaborative knowledge-sharing that can help the development of a thriving, inclusive, ethical and future-fit local fashion industry. The Masterclasses are hosted by Twyg & AFRI from 3 November 2020 – 16 November 2020 More information […]
ICA Podcast – Lesiba Mabitsela The ICA’s publication Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa, published by Wits University Press, was initiated in response to a literary vacuum. Before 2019, there was no comprehensive text dedicated to Live Art in South Africa, and so there was limited discourse to speak about the politically […]
Lesiba Mabitsela presents Reinstitute at GMSC20 I am happy to announce that my application to participate in the following event was accepted and will be presenting my work, {Re}Institute on the 21 July 2020 at 16h00 CAT. Register for free via EVENTBRITE. See link below.Join an international cohort of academics and practitioners to discuss men’s […]
Long Read: Fashion, Sustainability and Decoloniality On Dec 7, 2019 at the Future of Fashion symposium hosted by Rewoven, Dr Erica de Greef delivered a keynote. Titled Fashion, Sustainability and Decoloniality, she explored the concept of decoloniality and its relevance to thinking critically – from a perspective of the global South – about the Future […]