In the OFM Art Beat, Mid-Morning Magic’s Yolanda Maartens is joined by Jo-Ann Chan to chat about the current exhibition at the NWU Main Gallery titled “Decolonising the Book”.

This exhibition is a collaboration between the NWU Gallery, Visual Narratives and Creative Outputs (ViNCO) and the Artists’ Book Club.

“Decolonising the Book” is a product of the “Decolonial Book Arts Project” that was initiated in 2018 by artist and former bookseller Chris Reinders (of The African Moon Press) and developed further over the next few years by the Johannesburg Chapter of the Artist’s Book Club. This arts project’s inception was the result of the prominent, and still ongoing, calls for decolonisation, particularly those which had been driven by students in South Africa’s higher education sector.

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The exhibition has a series of associated public events, ranging from online discussions and artist walkabouts to bookmaking workshops that will be hosted during the month of October. For more information visit ww.nwu.ac.za

The exhibition is currently on until 28th of October 2022 at the NWU Main Gallery.