Indigo Waves And Other Stories.
Re-navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora 
 

This website is a culmination and repository of scholarship, knowledge produced and gathered through exhibitions, public programmes, residencies and events of the multi-chapter project INDIGO WAVES AND OTHER STORIES: RE-NAVIGATING THE AFRASIAN SEA AND NOTIONS OF DIASPORA  2020 - 2023. It brings together works by more than 80 artists, filmmakers, sonic agents, thinkers and cultural practitioners. 

The e-publication features commissioned essays from May Joseph, John Njenga Karugia, Fahad Bishara, Momtaza Mehri, Nidhi Mahajan, and Jama Musse Jama. 

This project is an effort to unpack and shed light on the continual history of water-based exchanges that have generated cultural and social affinities between the African and Asian continents.  Combining new artistic and scholarly commissions with existing art works, the itinerary of exhibitions and gatherings trace oceanic links between the Asian and African regions, manifesting overlays and diasporic transfers between two areas of increased global political, economic and cultural importance in the 21st century. The waterscapes including islands, coastlines, ports, and continents which have come to be known as the Indian Ocean emerges as a communal horizon that reveals shades of Afrasian cultural, linguistic, political and historical passage from ancient times to the present.

Initiated by Natasha Ginwala and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and curated with Michelangelo Corsaro and Hajra Haider Karrar

In partnership with Gropius Bau, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town; Vasl Artists’ Association, Karachi and BLAK C.O.R.E. (Care of Radical Energy), University of Melbourne.