Book Series
Chimurenga publishes monographs, series and literature by independent researchers and writers from around the world.
Our series include Chimurenganyana, a literature project consisting of serialized monographs. It consists of factions, essays, scores, interviews, liner notes, musical analysis, travel writing, personal impressions, political and social commentary. Plus innovative artwork that illuminates the subversive beauty, electrifying creativity and marvelous diversity of provocative innovators.
The Chimurenga Library Series is a publication series which catalogues long-research projects of Chimurenga.
Into the nothingness: The Strangeness of Seeing, What Blinds our Being was curated by Fulufhelo Mobadi in 2020. Fulufhelo Mobadi is a South African photographer and curator. She was the second ARAK Collection 2020 Curatorial Residency Fellowship Recipient. Into the Nothingness: The Strangeness of Seeing, What Blinds our Being brings to the fore the entanglements of historical, physical, metaphysical and existential spheres of contemporary African lives. Through the distorted faces, fragmented landscapes and clear references to the dark memories that travel with us in sometimes nightmarish visions, are traces of knowledge systems that seem to explore these spheres of existence through artworks that cover cultural identities, different beliefs, cultural practices, mythologies and cosmologies. The publication allow one to visualize, respond to and create dialog around the complexities that inspire African artists to create work that speak of their beliefs, thoughts, histories and their futures as well as the rich and complex traditions in a contemporary world.