HCMC – “Encounter” Presents Ntone Edjabe: Lecture and Music

Lecture “Diagnosing the Chimurenga Chronic”: Thu 09 Apr 2015, 6.30 pm
Room Marie Curie (6F), Hoa Sen University
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Music “The beats of Africa”: Fri 11 Apr 2015, 11.30 pm
The Observatory

From the organizer:

Lecture “Diagnosing the Chimurenga Chronic”

‘Encounter’ lecture series welcomes Ntone Edjabe, writer, journalist and musician of Cameroon origin, now based in Cape Town, South Africa. He will give a lecture about his role in establishing and directing the print and online pan-African platform called ‘Chimurenga’, which showcases art, society and culture. His presentation will focus on Chimurenga’s latest editorial project, The Chimurenga Chronic, which began as the once-off edition of a fictional newspaper published in October 2011, but back-dated to the week of 18-24 May 2008.

The once-off edition of the Chronic was a social sculpture that embraced the newspaper as a popular medium that raises the perennial question of news and newness, of how we define both the now and history. It invited its editors, writers, artists and readers to take it seriously as a time machine; to re-consider the past as a territory to explore, and the present as a precarious and elusive entry-point through which, hopefully, a radically different future might make its appearance. This fictional newspaper has since become a reality, as a quarterly publication which is distributed across the continent’s main cities and further afield, and while continually exploring the possibilities of this old technology – the newspaper as art object, as curriculum, as cartography, and more.

* Entrance is free. Translation will be provided.

Music “The beats of Africa”

Ntone Edjabe also brings along a set of pan-African music gig, which will be featured in one of the most chic clubs in the city, The Observatory. Come to enjoy the music that you might not come across as often any time soon!

* Limited tickets for the music gig, including a discount on one first drink, can be acquired after the lecture night ‘Diagnosing the Chimurenga Chronic’ on 9 April, 2015 @ 6:30 pm, Hoa Sen University (8 Nguyen Van Trang, District 1). Please contact San Art staff on site for more information.