Sindi-Leigh McBride

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She holds MA degrees in International Relations and Political Communication and has worked in the private, nonprofit and public sectors in South Africa. Her research and writing focuses on the nexus between international development, mediated communication and culture, and her essays, art writing and short stories have appeared in Africa’s a Country, Kalahari Review, New Frame and more.

6. Towards climate consciousness: a compendium

Emeka Ogboh, The Way Earthly Things are Going (2017) Multichannel sound installation

This project was an extended conversation about climate and art, and in the process a wealth of insights and information was exchanged with the editors, curators and artists I spoke with. Read more

2. Communicating without aestheticizing or academicizing

Asemahle Ntlonti, Ezonzibileni III, 2020. Unthreaded polypropylene bags, soap and goal leaf on canvas. Photography by Matthew Bradley.Courtesty of the artist and What if the World Gallery.

Conversation with Angela Chan, creative climate communicator Read more

Reflecting on Science and Art as Dirge: READ Fellowship Project 2020

Learning together, when doing apart

5. Mineralizing land and fabulating climate

Dineo Seshee Bopape, sa___ke lerole, (sa lerole ke___), 2016 (installation view, Art in General, New York, 2016)

Conversation with Nolan Dennis, artist Read more

On Becoming Island

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4. Dialogic processes, decolonial pedagogic practice and humanizing history

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Singer, 2014. Mixed media on paper. Courtesy of the artist and the Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg.

Conversation with Nomusa Makhubu and Nkule Mabaso, curators Read more

The New Word for World is Archipelago

Learning together, when doing apart

Liquid Futures

Learning together, when doing apart

On the crudity of futures

Learning together, when doing apart

Learning in Island Ecologies (intro)

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Exhausted

Learning together, when doing apart

1. START HERE

Otobong Nkanga, Filtered Memories, 1990—92: acrylic on paper, 42 × 29cm. All images courtesy the artist; Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam; and In Situ Fabienne Leclerc Gallery, Paris

an invitation to imagine Read more

3. Knowledge production as radical sharing and curation as care

Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi. End of History II, 2014. Courtesy of the artist.

Conversations with Bukola Oyebode and Danielle Bowler, editors Read more

Lists from Nowhere

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Islands within Islands

Learning together, when doing apart

The Coffee Commons

Sindi-Leigh McBride - The Coffee Commons

This essay reflects upon the divergent responses to and asymmetrical consequences of COVID19 in McBride’s home country, South Africa, and her country of residence, Switzerland. Part of "Learning from COVID19: Reflections on knowledge-related commons and practices of self-organization amidst COVID19." Read more