6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Alliance Française
CURATORIAL TALK WITH ELISE ATANGANA: SEVEN HILLS

Located between seven hills on the shores of Lake Victoria, Kampala’s topography is rich with trails to explore. At the heart of the artistic project of the Biennale, one finds the fast development of African cities, along with what this brings in terms of urban planning, traffic, modes of transportation and the mobile lifestyles of their users and operators. By tackling the subject of motion transitions and the social changes they imply, the Biennale will be firmly grounded in the metropolis. By questioning the transformations observed in terms of movement, interactions and landscape, we project possible mobilities and futures, whether physical, virtual or imaginary.(7:30 p.m. till 10:00 p.m. Drinks/Cash bar on the rooftop)

4.30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
National Theatre /CICP room (A)
DISCUSSION BY ARTISTS OF THE KAMPALA ART BIENNALE
With participating artists of the Kampala Art Biennale 2016
Moderated by Elise Atangana

The artists’ discussion offers an insight into the experience artists made in Kampala during the setup of the exhibition, the challenges they met and the encounters they made. They will speak about the process of the creation of their work and their concepts and ideas regarding mobilities in general and specifically in Kampala. They discuss the impact of mobility in their own life and about how their subjective approach speaks to cultural narratives in the particular context of Kampala and beyond.

10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Uganda National Museum (A)
SYMPOSIUM: (HI)STORIES OF EXHIBITION MAKING / 1960 – 1990
With George Kyeyune, Katrin Peters-Klaphake, Sidney Kasfir, Ozioma Onuzulike, Katharina Greven, Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, Nadine Siegert and Moses Serubiri
Organiser: IWALEWAHAUS, Bayreuth

The public symposium “(Hi)Stories of Exhibition Making / 1960 – 1990” is part of the research project „African Art History and the Formation of a Modern Aesthetic“ at Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth in cooperation with the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt a. M. and Makerere Art Gallery (IHCR) in Kampala. This research project seeks to examine not only the singular collections of African Modernisms that are housed today in the collections but also to look at past, present and future connections between them. In the symposium, we share recent research on the history of exhibitions of African Modernisms.

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10:00 a.m. – 12 noon
Alliance Française, Plot 52, Bukoto street, Kamwokya, Kampala, Conference Room 3rd floor
ROUND TABLE: KAMPALA MOBILITIES FUTURES
With Jacob Byamukama (Department for Urban Engineering, KCCA); Mark Bwambale (Department for Architecture and Urban Planning, KCCA); Katrin Peters-Klaphake (Makerere Art Gallery/Institute for Heritage Conservation and Restoration, Makerere University); Dr. Allan Birabi (Dept. of Architecture and Physical Planning, CEDAT, Makerere University); Evelyn Namara (ICT Association of Uganda; !NNOVATE Uganda), Nicholas Kamanzi (Hive Colab, YOZA)
Moderation: Elise Atangana

Like every urban global agglomeration today, Kampala is subject to phenomenal change in its modes of transportation and communication. The matatus, as are called the small buses that one finds in virtually every city in the Eastern African region, will compete with new bus services in the future. Furthermore, one notes the launch of an Uber-inspired model for the boda-bodas, the local motor-taxis, while established forms of transport continue. From these shifts, we can foresee important changes in daily habits of the local population. Which challenges does Kampala face with its current precarious traffic situation and which scenarios are envisioned for the future? What will be the impact on habits of the population? How does their practice link to cultural narratives and shape Kampala’s current mobilites and futures? What impact will ICT innovation have in this process? How is the future city?

4:00 p.m. – 9 a.m.
32° East, plot 2239, Ggaba Road, Kansanga, Kampala

OPEN LAB & POP UP EXHIBITION:(RE)THINKING FEMINISM AND BLACK WOMANHOOD

With Sonia Barrett (Germany), Jessica Buhlmann (Germany), Nancy Mteki (Zimbabwe), Syowia Kyambi (Kenya), Immy Mali (Uganda), Abe Stacey Gillian (Uganda), Sheila Nakitende (Uganda).
Organizer: Goethe-Zentrum Kampala/ UGCS, Iwalewahaus (University of Bayreuth)

An exhibition and performances will present the results of the workshop and open laboratory “(Re)Thinking Feminism and Black Womanhood” that will run for ten days in Kampala with participating female visual artists from four different countries. Acknowledging that female artists – in particular women with an African or African diasporian background – still remain largely invisible and their works less distributed among the networks of the globalized art world, the workshop focuses on synergies between feminist theories and alternative artistic/curatorial practices and collaborations.

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9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Uganda Museum (Education Hall), Kira Road, Kampala

SYMPOSIUM: (RE)THINKING FEMINISM AND BLACK WOMANHOOD

With: Dr. Natasha A Kelly (Germany), Hon Miria Matembe, Godiva Akullo, Dr. Zahara Nampewo, Prof. Ben Twinomughisha, Hon. Angeline Osegge, Justice Kenneth Kakuru, Sheila Nduhukire, James Onen, Dr. Amanda Tumusiime, Syowia Kyambi, Dr. Donald Rukare
Organizer: Goethe-Zentrum Kampala/ UGCS, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

This symposium will offer a platform for women and men from academia, the visual arts, politics, the judiciary, media and activists from the African continent and beyond. The meaning of feminism will be explored and stripped of preconceptions and prejudice and grounded in the African and especially Ugandan context in theory and practice. Women and men from different spheres of life will debate the differences of being a woman or a man in the professional world. Especially in the art world, male artists continue to dominate the local and global scene while women, especially of African descent, are less visible and their works less distributed, indicating that deliberations on feminist perspectives from the Global South are highly topical.

For registration please email to feminismug@fes-uganda.org
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