Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi was born in New York and has lived in Harare and Johannesburg since the early 1990s. She is a painter, video artist and filmmaker who divides her time between studio work and navigating the field of art as social practice. Her work investigates power and its political, social and architectural structures. Implicit in her examination of these structures is an interrogation of the invisible forces that create them, and an imagining of alternatives.
Between March 25 and April 1, Ms. Nkosi:
1) Facilitated classes in Film and African Studies that discussed:
-The challenges and opportunities of collaborative/participatory art or research projects
-Film (and photography) as both an end and means in creative or research-based projects that seek to have a social impact
-The realities of south-south migration, in this case, Zimbabwe to South Africa.
2) Introduced and discussed the ethics and aesthetics of Border Farm, a multimedia collaborative project on the South African/Zimbabwean border, at a free public event at the Carleton University Art Gallery.