MAGAZINE RELEASE
& OPENING OF THE CHRONIC READING ROOM
Röda Sten Art Centre
19 October, 7–10 pm
free admission
NOTE THE CHANGE
OF VENUE !
On Black Wednesday, the 19th of October The Chimurenga Chronicle, is released. The Pan-African magazine Chimurenga presents The Chimurenga Chronicle– a once-off, one-day-only edition of a speculative, future-forward newspaper that travels back in time to re-imagine the present. Back-dated to the week May 18–24, 2008, The Chimurenga Chronicle is situated during the first week of the xenophobic violence in South Africa,
The event is produced in collaboration with the Gothenburg-based cultural journal Glänta and was preceded by a public art intervention in the form of a newspaper poster campaign across Johannesburg, Nairobi, Lagos and Göteborg.
Glänta has in the past year served as The Chronicle’s northernmost editorial outpost, and will on October 19 present the project together with Chimurenga designer Graeme Arendse, who will also be found as DJ G. Nest Nest G behind the turntables that night.
In The Cronicle Reading Room, which is part of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, the newspaper will be available along with microfilm readers, computers, and a reference library at Röda Sten Art Centre. Read more
