TUDDA NYUMA - LET'S LOOK BACK A letter to Ham Mukasa


Published: Feb 13, 2024
Keywords:
Artistic research Uganda vernacular photography; snapshot; networked photograph; networked memory memory; image; word; archive; violence History
andrea stultiens
Canon Griffin Rumanzi
Abstract

This contribution is positioned between what might be considered an artistic portfolio and a paper. It is perhaps best understood as a visual essay, in which a speculative correspondence with a prominent Ugandan chief and intellectual, the late Ham Mukasa (ca. 1870-1956), affords the activation of an ambiguous colonial legacy. It aims to complicate and question our relationship to- and understanding of archival materials and the web of privilege and precarity in which they were compiled and exist.

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Canon Griffin Rumanzi

Canon Griffin contributed an art work and is collaborator at large in the project addressed.