E-theater

The Operating Room

 

Body | Machine | Location

There is no stage. There is no beginning nor ending. The play has already started.

 

 

 

 

 

-Home appliance manuals

-Ventilator

-Thermometer

-Measuring tape

-Clock

-Wedge

-Ineos 1:59 challenge, 2019

-2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census

-(CBC) Competency Based Curriculum- Kenya’s new education system est. in 2017

-#kot (Kenyans on Twitter)

-Dr. Stella Nyanzi- Jailed for cyber harassment

-VFS & TLS visa application centres- Nairobi

-Helical spring

-Rocks

-c.2004 High school love notes on Floppy disk

-Ebony magazine embedded sound chip

-Mpesa kiosks

-Digital & slide projectors

-Mathree

-Boda-boda

-Mall checkpoints

-Weather & whether instruments

-Nyayo House (Immigration Dept.)

-Huduma Centers

-Referral hospitals

-Moi Avenue/Tom Mboya st. opposite fire-station

-Institute of Primate Research

-Mkunguni Square, Lamu

-Animal migration patterns

 

 

 

Architecture

The Living Room 

Cave/Bush/Camp/Market/Library/Playground/Digital/Historical/Industrial/Quarantine/Residential/Modernism/Kikuyu-gothic/Starchitecture
  • -COVID-19 Quarantine Centers: Kenya
  • -Downtown/CBD: Nairobi
  • -Industrial Area: Nairobi
  • -Upperhill: Nairobi
  • -Ruaka town: Kiambu
  • -Turkana County
  • -Lamu Archipelago
  • -Dadaab Refugee Camp: Garissa
  • -Kakuma Refugee Camp: Turkana
  • -Joseph Murumbi Library: Kenya National Archives (back room)
  • -Kwani? Library
  • -Jamhuri High School: Limuru Road
  • -Jamhuri Park: Ngong Road
  • -Delamere Flats: Milimani Road
  • -Ebrahim Supermarket
  • -McMillan Castle: Ol Donyo Sabuk
  • -Lord Egerton Castle: Nakuru
  • -Brahma Kumaris Raja Yoga Centre: Westlands
  • -FCB Mihrab: Kilimani
  • -Yaya ghost tower: Kilimani
  • -Korando Educational Centre: Kisumu
  • -Earthbag House: Kericho
  • -Green House Mall: Ngong Road
  • -Adams Arcade: Ngong Road
  • -Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa Church: Valley road
  • -St. Pauls Chapel: University Roundabout
  • -The Judiciary Museum: Supreme Court Building, City Hall Way
  • -Karen Blixen Museum: Karen
  • -State House: State House Road
  • -Nairobi National Museum- Museum Hill
  • -Kenya National Library: Upperhill
  • -Derelict Corbusier-type petrol station & hotel: Nairobi-Mombasa Highway
  • -Gikomba Market
  • -Kenyatta Market
  • -Kariokor Market
  • -Wakulima Market (Marikiti)
  • -Muthurwa Market
  • -Maasai Market
  • -YMCA building: Shauri Moyo, Eastlands
  • -Kaloleni Social Hall
  • -Kariokor Social Hall
  • -Kariokor Flats, Block B1-House no.29: Eastleigh Avenue
  • -Sacred Heart Cathedral: Kericho
  • -All Saints Cathedral: Kenyatta Avenue
  • -Ethiopian Orthodox Church: Kilimani
  • -Integrity Center: Valley Road
  • -Egerton University: Njoro
  • -University of Nairobi, Mahatma Gandhi Building: Harry Thuku Road
  • -University of Nairobi, The Jomo Kenyatta Memorial Library: University Way
  • -The Mama Sarah Obama Legacy Project: Kogelo
  • -Cathedra: Turkana or Rift valley (coming soon)
  • -Turkwel Hydroelectric Power Station: West Pokot
  • -Olkaria Geothermal Power Plant & Spa: Naivasha
  • -The Nay Palad Bird Nest: Segera, Laikipia
  • -Saba Studios: Lamu
  • -Sarakasi Dome: Ngara
  • -Diamond Plaza: Parklands
  • -Kenyan Police Stations
  • -National Cereals and Produce Board building: Embakasi & Eldoret
  • -National Cereals and Produce Board silos: Kitale
  • -Olivado Domes-Avocado bio-gas plant: Murang’a
  • -Nairobi-Mombasa Standard Gauge Railway & Terminus
  • -The Aga Khan University Hospital: 3rd Parklands Avenue
  • -Ololua Radioactive Waste Laboratory
  • -Namanga Regional Animal Quarantine Facility
  • -Lothagam North Pillar Burial Site: Turkana
  • -Lithophones: Rock Gongs of Lewa Downs: Lewa Conservancy
  • -Moi International Sports Centre: Kasarani
  • -Silole Sanctuary: Rongai
  • -Crave Kitchen: Kikuyu Town
  • -Cave Bureau: Rose Avenue
  • -Tree Tops Hotel: Nyeri
  • -Nanyuki Simba Lodge: Nanyuki
  • -Rahimtulla Trust Library: Mfangano Street
  • -Konokono Vaccination and Educational Clinic: Turkana
  • -Export Processing Zone: Athi River
  • -Mt. Suswa caves: The Great Rift-Valley, Narok
  • -Paradise Lost caves: Kiambu
  • -Hell’s Gate National Park: Lake Naivasha
  • -Italian Prisoners Of War Catholic Church: The Great Rift-Valley, Maai Mahiu rd.
  • -Don Bosco Catholic Church: Upperhill
  • -The East Africa Swaminarayan Satsang Temple: Forest Road
  • -Oshwal Center: Westlands
  • -Siri Guru Singh Sabha: Nairobi
  • -Njuri Ncheke shrines: Meru
  • -Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s House: Limuru Uplands
  • -Intona Ranch/Joseph & Sheila Murumbi’s House: Trans Mara, Narok
  • -Embassy of Switzerland: Rosslyn Green Estate
  • -African Heritage House: Kitengela
  • -Bomas of Kenya: Langata
  • -Petanns Driving School & Computer College Building: Kasarani
  • -Gurudwara Sikh Temple: Westlands
  • -Free Masons Lodges: Nairobi, Eldoret, Kisumu, Mombasa
  • -Luigi Broglio Space Center, Malindi
  • -Nyali Bridge
  • -Kilifi Bridge
  • -The Nairobi Arboretum: State House Rd
  • -Nairobi Lunar Park: Haile Selassie Avenue
  • -Uhuru Park: Nairobi CBD
  • -Uhuru Gardens Memorial Park: Langata
  • -Desert Museum: Loiyangalani
  • -Rabai Museum: Mombasa
  • -Mijikenda Kayas- Kilifi District
  • -Fort Jesus: Mombasa
  • -Gedi Ruins: Kilifi
  • -Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) Centre for Geographic Medicine Research: Kilifi
  • -Kilindini Bar: Mombasa
  • -Lamu Floating Bar: Indian Ocean
  • -Tatu City: Ruiru
  • -Duck architecture/decorated sheds: The Annual ASK Nairobi International Trade Fair
  • -Konza Technology City (Silicon Savannah). Makueni County
  • -All Railway stations between Nairobi-Mombasa & Nairobi-Kisumu
  • -Ilemi Triangle: East Africa
  • -Sunken Car Park: Aga Khan Walk, CBD
  • -Ligi Ndogo sports ground: Ngong Road
  • -Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA): Kangundo Road
  • -Ngatataek town, Kajiado County
  • -Jackie Karuti- I’ve Been Working on Some MAGIC | *you are here*

 

 

The Viewing room

The viewing room

2020

 

 

  • -Millennium Actress: dir. Satoshi Kon
  • -Minor Matter: Ligia Lewis
  • -John Akomfrah in conversation with Tina Campt, Ekow Eshun & Saidiya Hartman
  • -Handsworth Songs: dir. John Akomfrah
  • -Self Unfinished (1998): Xavier Le Roy
  • -Kiki’s Delivery Service: dir. Hayao Miyazaki
  • –Okwui Okpokwasili
  • –Poor People’s TV Room: Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born
  • -La Siesta: dir. Federico Luis Tachella
  • -Los Gatos: dir. Alejandro Ríos
  • –24 Frames Per Century: dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari
  • -The Epic of Everest, 1924: dir. Captain John Noel
  • -Shiraz: A Romance of India, 1928: dir. Franz Osten
  • -Our Little Sister: dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • -Love is the Message, the Message is Death: Arthur Jafa 
  • -Audre Lorde- The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992: dir. Dagmar Schultz
  • -Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore: An Antipode Foundation film
  • -Grey Matter (Matière Grise): dir. Kivu Ruhorahoza
  • -Fúria: Lia Rodrigues
  • -Yugoslavia- How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body: dir. Marta Popivoda
  • -Son of Gone Fishin’: Trisha Brown
  • -One Flat Thing: William Forsythe
  • -Hyenas- dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
  • -The Stuart Hall Project- dir. John Akomfrah
  • -The Last Angel of History- dir. John Akomfrah
  • -Félicité- dir. Alain Gomis
  • -Black Panthers- dir. Agnès Varda
  • -Muhammad Ali, The Greatest- dir. William Klein
  • -Funk lessons: Adrian Piper
  • –How Clouds are Formed: Jackie Karuti

2019

 

2018

  • –The Planets- chapter32: Jackie Karuti
  • –NOWNESS
  • -Göran Olsson: Concerning Violence
  • -Chris Marker: Sans Soleil
  • -Manifesto: Julian Rosefeldt
  • -Life of Imitation: Ming Wong
  • –Rebirth is Necessary: Jenn Nkiru
  • -Georges Méliès
  • -24 Frames: Abbas Kiarostami
  • -Medicine for Melancholy: Barry Jenkins
  • -Prison Images: Harun Farocki
  • –More Sweetly Play The Dance: William Kentridge
  • -Moving text at airports & supermarket check-out counters
  • -Out Film Festival Nairobi- 2018 film selections
The Listening room

The listening room

2020

 

  • –Imagine Otherwise: Tina Campt on Listening to Images
  • –Phonic Substance: Arthur Jafa
  • -Hyènes OST: Wasis Diop
  • -A game of hide & seek and ‘Red light/Green light’
  • –Mind and soul 5: Do Kenyan schools teach only theory?: Wandia Njoya
  • –Safari (ya Bamba ni machero): Muungano National Choir
  • -Ya Jean: Madilu System
  • -Sound & Color: Alabama Shakes
  • –FESTAC ’77: PASS playlist-Chimurenga
  • –Desert Island Discs– Professor Stuart Hall
  • -Bank & visa queue number call-out machine
  • -Conspiracy theories re: COVID-19
  • -Julius Eastman
  • –Deluxe Edition Double CD set: The Laurence Rassel Show. The Post-Feminist Radio Drama Assassinated Before Broadcast: Laurence Rassel & Terre Thaemlitz
  • –DVD: En Atendant & Cesena: A Choreographer’s Score- Interviews with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Björn Schmelzer by Bojana Cvejić; Recording & editing by Olivia Rochette & Gerard-Jan Claes
  • –Lo-fi beats to quarantine and stay indoors to 🏠 

 

2019

Rain in Nairobi: 29.04.19 | 20:53

 

 

  • -Laurie Anderson
  • -Pauline Oliveros & Ione
  • -Éliane Radigue
  • -Podcast: ArtAsiaPacific: Reading Raqs
  • -Podcast: Corpus: a podcast about visual arts in Eastern Africa. Hosted by Nyambura Mutanyi & Don Handa
  • -Storytelling: Bizuayehu and Tarik by Robel Temesgen
  • -Podcast: Nipe Story: Tribute to Binyavanga Wainaina by Billy Kahora
  • –Vinyl: Tribute to Mzee Kenyatta: St Stephens Church Choir-Conducted by Darius Mbela
  • –Podcast: Otherwise: Episode 86: The New Curriculum
  • -Machine: Projector

2018

The Reading room

The reading room

2020

  • -Black Visual Frequency: A Glossary: Tina Campt
  • –The university is dead; long live the university: Wandia Njoya
  • -Public Sphere by Performance: Bojana Cvejić & Ana Vujanović
  • -Beyond The River Yei. Life in the land where sleeping is a disease: Binyavanga Wainaina
  • -The Re-Enchantment of Humanism: An Interview with Sylvia Wynter: David Scott
  • –The Ignorant Dramaturg: Bojana Cvejić
  • -Moving as Thing. Choreographic Critiques of the Object: André Lepecki
  • -Sculpture in the Expanded Field: Rosalind Krauss
  • –Thought is a Material: Talking with Mel Bochner about Space, Art, and Language: Alexander Kranjec
  • -Black visuality and the practice of refusal: Tina Campt
  • -Form & Object. A Treatise on Things: Tristan Garcia
  • -Städelschule Lectures: 2019-1999
  • -Infancy and History. On the Destruction of Experience: Giorgio Agamben
  • -Duty Free Art. Art in the age of planetary civil war: Hito Steyerl
  • -What is an Event? Gilles Deleuze
  • -En atendant & Cesena: A Choreographer’s Score: Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker & Bojana Cvejić
  • -Festac ’77: Chimurenga
  • -Difference and Repetition: Gilles Deleuze
  • -(panic) shopping list(s)
  • -No Roses from My Mouth: Poems from Prison: Dr. Stella Nyanzi
  • –Listening to Images: Tina M. Campt
  • -In the Wake: On Blackness and Being: Christina Sharpe
  • -Choreographing Problems: Expressive Concepts in European Contemporary Dance and Performance: Bojana Cvejić
  • –Towards a Poetics of Imagination. On Mette Edvardsen’s poetry and its penchant to imagine a clandestine side to things: Bojana Cvejić
  • -Walenisi: Katama Mkangi
  • -A Cyborg Manifesto: Donna Harraway
  • -The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study Stefano Harney and Fred Moten (An interview with Stevphen Shukaitis)
  • -Deutscher Pavillon 2013, La Biennale di Venezia: Ai Weiwei, Romuald Karmakar, Santu Mofokeng, Dayanita Singh
  • –Monoskop

 

 

2019

  • -Shin Egashira: Before Object, After Image. 1996 – 2006 Koshirakura Landscape
  • -Kodwo Eshun: More Brilliant than the Sun; Adventures in Sonic Fiction
  • -Fernand Deligny: Maps & Wander Lines
  • -Sophie Podolski: The country where everything is permitted
  • -Grace Ndiritu: Institutional Critique: Racism & Spiritual Practice in the Art World, 2019
  • -Tim Ingold: Lines-a Brief History, The Life of Lines, Being Alive, Making
  • -IKON: second series #1. Fall/Winter 1982-83
  • -The Sarai Reader book series
  • -The Adventures of Thiga: C.M Mureithi
  • -K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
  • -Capitalist Realism: Mark Fisher
  • -The Essential Writings of Marcel Duchamp: Edited by Michel Sanouillet & Elmer Peterson
  • -Sinazo Chiya: 9 More Weeks
  • –eflux: Anton Vidokle and Hito Steyerl- Cosmic Catwalk and the Production of Time
  • –eflux: Raqs Media Collective- Stammer, Mumble, Sweat, Scrawl, and Tic
  • -Visual Culture: the reader. Edited by Jessica Evans & Stuart Hall
  • –Ibraaz: Contemporary Visual Culture in North Africa & The Middle East
  • –KADIST: A Distinct Itinerary in. Space and. Time.
  • -Ngũgĩ wa Mirii: On Literacy Content, 1979
  • -James Muriuki & Syowia Kyambi: Layers
  • -Chimurenganyana: When you kill us we Rule! Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s last interview. By Keziah Jones
  • -Monsieur Antipyrine’s Manifesto: Tristan Tzara
  • -Texte Zur Kunst: Globalisms
  • -Ashraf Jamal: In The World. Essays on Contemporary South African Art
  • -Àsìkò: residency notes
  • -Co.@rtnews
  • -Jackie Karuti: The Address (Book)
  • -Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2018 catalog: Possibilities for a non-alienated life
  • -Jackie Karuti responding to Wolfang Tillmans’ work: What else can a photograph be?
  • –Kwani? journal: Books 1-8

 

2018

  • -Felwine Sarr & Bénédicte Savoy: The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics
  • -Jonathan Gathaara Sölanke Fraser: FOSSILS (or the movement of an image across a field of memory)
  • -Michelle Angwenyi: BIRD. an alternative thesis
  • -Neo Sinoxolo Musangi: Homing with My Mother / How Women in My Family Married Women
  • –African Art Since 1992: A Timeline of Momentous Events in And Around The Continent
  • -Soul of a Nation. Art in the Age of Black Power: Edited by Mark Godfrey & Zoé Whitley
  • -Museum fur Volkerkunde, Frankfurt-Signs: Art from East Africa 1974 – 1989
  • -Dak’Art Biennale 2018 Catalog
  • -The Invention of Zimbabwe: The Chronic, Chimurenga-April, 2018
  • -XiBARUU TEERE YI(‘Chronic Books’ in Wolof): What can African Writers Learn from Cheikh Anta Diop?
  • -A Path Not Taken: The Story of Joseph Murumbi. Africa’s Greatest Private Cultural Collector and Kenya’s Second Vice-president. Anne Thurston
  • -9 Weeks: Hansi Momodu-Gordon
  • -Purple: John Akomfrah
  • -documenta 14: Daybook & Reader
  • -SOUTH as a state of mind
  • -Àsìkò: on the future of artistic and curatorial pedagogies in Africa
  • -Curriculum of Connections. Focus: Education- Contemporary &: Special documenta 14 edition
  • -Condition Report: symposium on building Art institutions in Africa. Edited by Koyo Kouoh
  • –Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh