La Sape and Other Local Imaginaries in Kinshasa

Hiding in Plain Sight: Sharon Chin

For the first event in our Hiding in Plain Sight programme, we invited Malaysia-based artist Sharon Chin to speak about her recent projects, with a starting point of her work Creatures on the Move (In the Death of the Night) (2022).

Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza on Gayatri Spivak’s ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’

In conversation with Afterall editor Elisa Adami and CSM Art Programme Director Alex Schady, artist Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza talked about her work in response to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s influential text Can the Subaltern Speak? for the Two Works series.

The mvuata-mable

Designer Cedrick Nzolo takes us through the soul of the Sape. Between art of living, seduction and technique of being. The mvuata-mable is drawn from the CDA (Congo Design Arts) Project which brings together three areas of research and expressiveness: textile and furniture design, fashion and architecture.

Boundaries Between the Sape and Performance Art

Artist and educator Prisca Tankwey presents on the Sape in relation to notions of identity, profile and belonging to classical categories of artistic practices. Too close to performance art, in plastic and conceptual terms, the discipline of the Sape begs a definition or the establishment of new boundaries.