Ghana: 2nd Kumasi Biennial Symposium Calls for Participation in its KUMASI CURIO KIOSKS II Project

March 17, 2011 - PRLog -- Project Title: GHANA: KUMASI CURIO KIOSKS II
(Arts+ Architecture Social Experiment)
Date: July 16 - August 6, 2011
Venue: Kumasi and the Nearby Village of Abetenim
Organization Name: Nka Foundation, Box Up 1115, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana
Website URL: www.nkafoundation.org
Contact Person: Barthosa Nkurumeh, PhD (Project Director)/ Frank Appiah Kubi,  
(Community Coordinator)
Voice Phone Number: (+) 0246422934  
Email Address: info@nkafoundation.org


Kumasi Curio Kiosks II is a part of the 2nd Kumasi Biennial Symposium that will run from July 16 - August 6, 2011, as a response to the growing problem of widening gap between contemporary arts practitioners and the broader public across the sub-Sahara. As arts+ architecture social experiment, project is to bring together arts specialists, architects, and social interest groups from diverse parts of the world in a transnational platform to trade in cultural capital with the local public who might not normally come to art galleries and museums.

In the project, we will use Kumasi City-Abetenim rural spaces such as market places, local schools, and village centers, as empirical sites for curio kiosk workshops, artistic interventions, site-specific lectures and other community-based approaches from around the world.  Each participant or collaborating team will created own curio kiosk; the size/design is open to the subject-specific needs and site-specific necessities.  We use the term "curio kiosk" in anticipation that the outward design or content will invoke curiosity and bear special attraction to the public.

Thus, we invite individual or group submissions for community theatre, media arts, readings, film screening, slide shows, open studios, visual activism, musical performances, community design, social architecture and others to allow the rural community to become acquainted with international contemporary artistic practice.  Project is open to only serious applicants; submissions will be reviewed until July 8, 2011.  Submit your curio kiosk proposal (sketches/description) to info@nkafoundation.org and/or nkaprojects@gmx.com.  Project web site is
www.nkafoundation.org.  And we seek as we go, nominations for the Project Curator and an expert in filmmaking/media arts, to do the DVD and create the e-publication.


For additional information on the 2009 Kumasi Curio Kiosks, see:
(1) http://www.artinprocess.com/Kiosks this is a 05:56 minute video on Curio Kiosks Project.
(2) Photo Documentary, 500 photos on Flickers: http://www.flickr.com/photos/artinprocess/sets/7215762199...   and
(3) http://www.wandsbektransformance.de/news.html to download the Artists' Catalogue.

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Nka Foundation is an artist initiative founded in mid 2000, as a non-profit organization with focus on the arts for human capital development in sub-Sahara Africa. The Foundation continues to foster cross-cultural synergy for human capital development through community arts practice and infrastructure, especially in rural communities in the Anglophone, Lusophone and Francophone African settings. Programme includes community arts residency, conference, special project, workshop, and exhibition.