{"id":21729,"date":"2020-09-14T16:45:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T14:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/?p=21729"},"modified":"2021-12-02T08:58:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T07:58:19","slug":"muntu-maxims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/muntu-maxims\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Web Residencies No 13: Muntu Maxims"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[451,507,500],"project_type":[725,729],"class_list":["post-21729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-web-residencies","project-calls-2020","project-muntu-maxims","project_type-formats","project_type-call"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_video","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":12,"video_embed":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/458051054","video":{"video_mp4":"","video_webm":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"We invite artists, collectives, experts, and activists from all disciplines to dedicate themselves to an experimental publishing practice through a Web Residency. With this call, we intend to bring together different areas of spirituality from cultures all over the world, and to highlight selected examples online. The project seeks to reflect on the socio-psychological position with regard to facts or states of affairs that indicate Muntu\u2019s dependence on other dynamisms in things, people, and the supernatural.\r\n
\u00bbA maxim is a simple and memorable guide for living \u2013 understood as a subjective principle of action.\u00ab<\/blockquote>\r\nOur present dynamic creates room for varied images of thinking that explore different common existences. Images that venerate the idea of things being central to the existence of life; consecrated forms that express different concepts and foundations of thought and societal values.\r\n\r\nSince time immemorial, and more specifically after the third Industrial Revolution, mobility as a notion has become an important resource that facilitates today\u2019s Information Age \u2013 of bodies, ideas, information, and influence. Being able to move and the freedom to do so has intensified cultural and political activities toward dissolving or abandoning the solid ground of defined categories (as often excluded majority of cognitive schemas and imposed an ideal scale). Premised on the accelerated movement between places, this calls the mobile person to be a \u00bbtranslation-human,\u00ab that is, someone who is \u00bbtranslatable\u00ab across cultures in a way in which people (groups or individuals) and cultures are transformed by changing their own places in society (Young, 2003). This innately accentuates the desire to stay connected and has put continuous pressure on the idea of boundaries.\r\n\r\nPhilosophies from new and old communities offer us new parameters for fresh grounds of engagement and subsequently suggest fresh ways of \u00bbrelating to\u00ab things and one another. Take for example the Baganda Ntu\u2019ology, in which a significant element of Muntu1<\/sup><\/em> (person) is \u00bbbeing in relation to\u00ab (Kasozi, 2011). Kasozi Mutaawe urges that Muntu <\/em>is conceived as a being that is interwoven in a network of relations \u2013 whose role is not to be the pivot but a partaker, with duties to maintain ontological harmony of the various realms of the universe. The \u00bblive person\u00ab or Muntu-mulamu<\/em>, in their wholeness is gauged by their constant cultivation and maintenance of a good sense of belonging to the complex multitude. This proposes fundamentals of society in which thinking is from a position of the majority (non-human included, could also be nonwestern) rather than minority (human, and could also be western). Systems led with majority thinking harbor possibilities for\u00a0redistributing power, as it is ever on shifting planes and in switching positions.\r\n
\u00bbWe invite artists, dancers, musicians, technologists, and audio makers to explore notions of transcendence, omniscience, and eternity to express content of spiritual concepts in form and visual matter. How can the digital be used to denote spiritual interactions?\u00ab<\/blockquote>\r\nDue to a progressive globalized world configuration, people are becoming more relevant as \u00bbinfrastructure\u00ab and it has become imperative to also consider Muntu thinking as a center \u2013\u00a0expounding on the idea of times and spaces in which man does not occupy a unique place, except that of a mere collaborator; where a Muntu<\/em>\u2019s not being in relation to other things is equivalent to not being. Muntu<\/em> ceases to exist if he or she is out of relation to other Ntu<\/em>\u2019s2<\/sup> (beings) namely; Bantu<\/em> and Bintu<\/em> (people and things). I imagine this residency as one that will draw questions from works related to the power of\u00a0transmultiplicity, and to present\u00a0perceptions\/maxims of life reflected in the spiritual interaction of people."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

Format<\/span><\/h3>\r\nWe accept text, performance, documentary video and fiction, 3D objects, net sculptures and installations, web archives, apps, and any other experimental mediums. Selected projects should be carried out in open-source formats that are well-documented, shareable, and consider the accessibility of its users, who may range in age, race, gender, economic class, and ability.\r\n

Application<\/span><\/h3>\r\nSubmit your project proposal in the form of:\r\n\u2013 a headline\r\n\u2013 a concept text in English (1,000\u20131,500 characters with spaces)\r\n\u2013 a header image (high resolution, landscape format)\r\n\u2013 a short bio in English (500 characters with spaces)\r\n\u2013 a portfolio PDF (images, text, links)\r\n

Grant<\/span><\/h3>\r\nFor each call, the curator selects four project proposals, whose creators are rewarded with a four-week residency and 750 Euro. All selected Web Residents are nominated for the production prize HASH by Solitude & ZKM which will be awarded in 2022.\r\n

Timeline<\/span><\/h3>\r\nCall release: September 17, 2020\r\nApplications: until October 15, 2020 (midnight CEST)\r\nWeb Residencies launch: December 01, 2020\r\n

Juror<\/span><\/h3>\r\nViolet Nantume is a curator and director at UNDER GROUND, a gallery and contemporary art space in Kampala, Uganda. She has worked as cultural producer for eight years and has had collaborations in Eastern Africa, Ghana, South Africa, and Germany.\r\n\r\nShe has curated exhibitions including Close at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa, and\u00a0Indulgence at Goethe-Institut in Nairobi (both 2018); Being Her(e), Luanda (2017); Zikunta: Gale of Human, a solo show by Wasswa August Donald (2016); and Heart of Darkness; a solo show by Christian Tundula, Cast a Light on Prejudice; a photography solo by Papa Shabani, and Together We Can, an installation by Hellen Nabukenya at UNDER GROUND (2015). She curated Eroticism and Intimacy: Faces, Places and Paths in Kampala and at the 2016 FNB Art Joburg art fair in Johannesburg, South Africa. Nantume organized the first ever major art auction in Uganda in 2015. She chaired the curatorial committee of the Kampala Contemporary Art Festival in 2014.\r\n\r\nShe is currently working on a group exhibition That Those Beings Be Not Being at alpha nova & galerie futura in Berlin. The exhibition explores relation as \u00bbknowledge in motion\u00ab; a form of errant knowledge, with capacity to birth new and unexpected forms, abandoning the solid grounds of defined categories, such as the Nation, the Self, and the other. The exhibitions engages artists from Ghana and Uganda. Violet Natume\u00a0is a lead researcher for an exhibition project Nnaggenda 2020 with Uganda\u2019s living modern artist Prof. Nnaggenda X. Francis. The research takes off in Kampala, Nairobi, and Munich; three pivotal places Prof. Nnaggenda studied and practiced. The project is curated with Dr. Lydia Ouma Radoli (Kenya) and Julia Gyemant (Germany).\r\n\r\nNantume received a KAAD scholarship in 2017. In 2019 she earned an M.F.A. from HFBK Hamburg, in 2019, the same year she won a DAAD Prize for exceptional achievement by non-German students.\r\n\r\nNantume was born in Masaka. She lives and works in Kampala, Uganda.\r\n

Web Residencies<\/span><\/h3>\r\nIn 2016, Akademie Schloss Solitude launched the Web Residencies to encourage young talents of the international digital scene and artists from all disciplines dealing with web-based practices. ZKM has been program partner from 2017\u20132019. For each call, the curator selects four project proposals whose creators receive a four-week residency and 750 Euro.\r\n\r\nArtists are invited to experiment with digital technologies and new art forms, and reflect on the topics set by the curators. Web residencies are carried out exclusively online, and the works are presented online.\r\n\r\nArtists and students of all disciplines as well as former or current Solitude fellows may apply. There is no age limit.\r\n

Submit<\/span><\/h3>\r\nThe deadline is October 15, 2020 (midnight CEST).\r\nPlease write to digitalsolitude(at)akademie-solitude.de if you have any questions."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_footnotes","bgcolor":"","footnotes_list_hide_numbers":false,"footnotes":[{"footnote":"Muntu<\/em> is a Luganda word meaning human being\/person, and is a singular for Bantu<\/em>. The Baganda comprehend Muntu<\/em> not only integralistic (Kasozi, p. 66) but also constantly interacting,\u00a0interwoven in a network\u00a0of relations with other beings."},{"footnote":"To be in relation to other Ntu<\/em>\u2019s is of such crucial importance for being of any individual Muntu<\/em>. Their \u00bbnot being in relation to\u00ab other Ntu<\/em>\u2019s is equivalent to their ceasing to be and eventually to not-being (Kasozi pg. 86)."},{"footnote":"See F. M. Kasozi: Introduction to an African Philosophy: The Ntu'ology of the Baganda.<\/em> Freiburg 2011."},{"footnote":"See J. Young: Postcolonialism.<\/em> New York 2003."}]}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=21729"},{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=21729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}