UNRAVELING THE (UNDER-) DEVELOPMENT COMPLEX OR TOWARDS A POST- (UNDER-) DEVELOPMENT INTERDEPENDENCE is a daring effort to analyze the status quo and imagine a world that doesn’t exist in the binary of “development” and “underdevelopment”. It manifests itself in multiple locales (Bandjoun, Nairobi, Berlin, Abidjan, and Johannesburg) as a series of research, exhibitions, performances, lectures, conversations and workshops around the myths of “development” and “underdevelopment” as well as imagining and crafting a Post-(Under)Development world. The project aims at gathering a network of activists, sonic agitators, scholars, artists and designers, political economists and practitioners to share knowledge across languages as well as sonority to imagine and shape together a post developmental age. A pluriverse of interdependent imaginations, visions and strategies, away from capitalist and industrial productivity and toward transformative conviviality. Artistic direction & concept by SAVVY's departing director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung. Curated by Juan Pablo García Sossa and Hajra Haider Karrar. Curatorial assistants: (COOP tutors) Sagal Farah and Billy Fowo, Hubert Gromny (DAI, 2020) and Kelly Krugman. Exhibition (within the 2-year project) to be seen at SAVVY till the 27th of January, 2022.

AN ODE TO WALTER RODNEY’S “HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA” 50 YEARS ON
(1972–2022)

READ THE FULL CONCEPT HERE (PDF)

EXHIBITION WITHIN THE 2-YEAR PROJECT 
WITH
 Jess Atieno The Black Audio Film Collective Simnikiwe Buhlungu Sheila Chukwulozie Christopher Cozier Binta Diaw Sènami Donoumassou Sofia Gallisá Muriente & Natalia Lassalle Morillo Rajyashri Goody Karachi La Jamia Jean Katambayi Mukendi Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson Syowia Kyambi Wallen Mapondera Anna Mapoubi Emo de Medeiros Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien Kumari Ranjeeta  Moffat Takadiwa The Victor Jara Collective Munem Wasif Guy Woueté 

OPENING26.11.2022 19:00
With performances at 19:00, 20:00 & 22:00 by Stacey Ejiroghene Okparavero, Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien & Clifton Joseph

ON SHOW27.11.2022–27.01.2023 Thursday–Sunday 14:00–19:00
The exhibition will be closed between 24.12.2022–04.01.2023

See also DAI's COOP study group UNRAVELING THE (UNDER-)DEVELOPMENT COMPLEX convened by

SAVVY Contemporary.