Current Residents Kholisile Dhliwayo
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Brooklyn Bronzes (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art - Brooklyn New York)
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Black Diasporas Boorloo-Perth (Museum of Western Australia - photographer Tim Campbell)
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Black Diasporas Boorloo-Perth (Museum of Western Australia - photographer Tim Campbell)
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Black Diasporas Tkaronto-Toronto (University of Toronto, also exhibited at Library and Archives Canada, Archives of Ontario - photographer Jossph Mpalirwa)
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Black Diasporas
Kholisile Dhliwayo is an African Australian architect, artist, and curator. His practice draws on cultural practices and collective histories to create community-centred architecture, art, and installations. Kholisile is a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a licensed architect in the USA and Australia. His works includes Brooklyn Bronzes, a permanent installation at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in NYC, and Black Diasporas, a project that documents the experiences, and places in cities that have meaning to Black communities (Lenapehoking-NYC, Tkaronto-Toronto, Naarm-Melbourne, Boorloo-Perth, Warrane-Sydney). His work is grounded in a commitment to affirming community agency.
In my time at the HIAP residency I will develop Black Diasporas Helsinki, a community-driven oral narrative project documenting spaces, places and experiences that have meaning to Black people living in Helsinki. Referencing oral narrative, a common tradition throughout the African continent, the project will manifest as a geo-located digital archive of stories and a travelling exhibition. Working with community organizations, and collaborators I will identify Black Helsinkiläiset to become interviewers, story contributors and filmmakers. Black Diasporas creates the opportunity to engage art, culture, and technology to affirm the agency of communities in telling their own stories.
Kholisile Dhliwayo’s residency is realised in the context of HICP – Helsinki International Curatorial Programme, a collaboration between Frame Contemporary Art Finland and HIAP.