Silent Invasions: The Art of Material Hacking

Amasaka Gallery, Vodoo Art, Weaverbird, Underground Kampala and BlaxTARLINES,

Masaka, Uganda

10 November, 2023 — 13 January, 2024

Group Exhibition

We are creating our own accesses and silent invasions. Such silent revolutions spread like a mycorrhizal underground network that is sprouting between Ghanaian blaxTARLINES and the art communities of Uganda. This Uganda-Ghana Exchange program, organized by UNDER GROUND Contemporary Art (Uganda), Vodo Art Society and Lab (Uganda), Weaver Bird Residency and Amasaka Gallery (Uganda), hosts the blaxTARLINES art community (Ghana) to stage an exhibition that delves into the expansive concept of hacking, exploring its applications to materials, ideologies, and intangible viral forms.

The exhibition silently invades an architecture abandoned to its unrealized future: Like foliage slowly expanding in a construction left to its fate, art is sprouting on unfinished brick walls like unusual mushrooms, mingling with the structure to finally overtake it. Whether it is abandoned architectures, habits of viewing art, norms of communication, the social resignifications of collective memories, the politics of safety and surveillance, the politics of representation, historical narratives– hacking as a form of insertion of new subjectivities into existing (and often narrowly defined) systems can take many forms and have many subjects. It is not more and not less than hijacking the vantage point to steer the narration towards new perspectives.

Exhibiting Artists:
Ethel Aanyu, Bright Ackwerh, Adjo Kisser, Afia Prempeh, Akosua Odeibea Amoah-Yeboah, Akanyijuka Evans, Aloka Trevor, Hassan Issah, Kasagga Dennis, Kasangati Godelive Kabena, Jacqueline Katesi Kalange, Matt Kayem, Kiggundu Rodney, Kiyingi Henry, Kyakonye Allan, M A K A N O, Nanteza Florence, Dan Ngaara Ngalamulume, Odur Ronald, Ojok Simon Peter, Frederick Ebenezer Okai, Jonathan Okoronkwo, Piloya Irene, Daniel Arnan Quarshie, Sandra Suubi, Lisa C Soto, Xenson Ssenkaaba, Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson, Wamala Kyeyune Joseph and Yiga Joshua

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