Guest Facilitator
Critlab 2021
The second edition of the annual professional development program inaugurated by Exit Frame Collective, CritLab, ended in Kumasi on 12th November, 2021. The program, designed for artists, curators, and critics, ran from 1st – 12th November, 2021.
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For this year’s event Exit Frame—the collective comprised of Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Kelvin Haizel, Adwoa Amoah, Bernard Akoi-Jackson, and Ato Annan— partnered with Foundation for Contemporary Art- Ghana, blaxTARLINES KUMASI, Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, and KNUST Museum (Opoku Ware II Museum). The 12-day intensive program of film screenings, studio/site visits, seminars, online lectures, and workshops took place between the auditorium of the KNUST Museum and the blaxTARLINES space on the KNUST campus. On the final day, participants engaged the public with temporary interventions such as performance lectures, interactive games, installations, and participatory and site-specific projects.
In recent history, Kumasi has been the site of the “silent revolution” happening in arts education at Ghana’s foremost art college, KNUST. The Department of Painting and Sculpture, à la blaxTARLINES, has been at the forefront of cutting-edge ideas and practices in contemporary art from Ghana and Africa since the late 1990s. CritLab complements this paradigm of Ghana’s art history by deepening the investment in the intellectual infrastructure of art practice and furthering its ambition of establishing a network of professionals who desire to push the boundaries of art production, art thought, and exhibition-making in the international field of contemporary art.
Date: 1-12 November, 2021
Location: Exit Frame Collective, KNUST Museum and blaxTARLINES Space, Kumasi, Ghana
Opening: 08:00 GMT prompt.
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