Home is our first real mistake. It is the one error that changes everything, the one lesson you could let destroy you. It is from this moment that we begin to build our home in the world. It is the place that we furnish with smell, taste, a talisman, a name. -1
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the real (i.e the world outside Disneyland) is real., whereas in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of hyperreal and of simulation” -2
Home is our first real mistake. It is the one error that changes everything, the one lesson you could let destroy you. It is from this moment that we begin to build our home in the world. It is the place that we furnish with smell, taste, a talisman, a name. -1
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the real (i.e the world outside Disneyland) is real., whereas in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of hyperreal and of simulation” -2
Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
Dialogues With Dust
Dialogues with Dust consist of a series of curated online and offline talks, seminars, atmospheric reconstructions, concert-lectures and films interspersed with reading groups and drawing workshops. This series of dialogues raises issues and phenomena relevant to Egypt, Namibia, Johannesburg; and their hauntings, dust, spectres, edge conditions, ancient deserts and contemporary global catastrophes. The wide-spread of Covid-19 alerts us to the unavoidable planetarity of our current moment, asking us to reflect on our entanglements and impact on health, territory and climate. Through the notion of dust, we also contemplate phenomena long since dormant, against those ruptured, urgent and insurgent into atmospheres we inhabit. This marathon engages with a wide range of practices and ways of thinking and making architecture, place, and the world.


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Special thanks to:
Adam Osman
One Way Up Productions (Film Team)
Fred Swart (Graphic Designer)
Denise Fouche (GSA Ops)
Steffen Fischer (GSA Ops)
Zakiyyah Haffejee (GSA Unit 18 Social Media)
Tarika Pather
Moderators:
Huda Tayob
Mikara Naidoo
Sarah de Villiers
Eric Wright
Organisers:
GSA Unit 18 & GSA Unit 13:
Huda Tayob
Sarah de Villiers
Eric Wright
Claudia Morgado
After party DJ's:
Thelma Ndebele – Organiser
Featured sets by:
Aaron Servant
Dreaming In Tangerine
Jumping Back Slash
eff.ess
Uncle Frnge
LeloWhatsGood
Aldrin
Rotea
Fela Gucci