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    • Nairobi Distributed: Co-Producing Narratives of Belonging in Nairobi's Eastlands

      Year: 2024
      ISBN: not yet
      An artist book which tries to disentangle political narratives of ethnic identity from the way in which identities are actually experienced, performed and practised in day to day life.
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    • Invisible Inventories - Reader

      Year: 2024
      ISBN: not yet
      A reader to accompany the research project and exhibition, with contributions by members of IIP, Chao Tayiana
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    • Invisible Inventories - Magazine

      Year: 2021
      ISBN: 978-3-947902-20-0
      A magazine to accompany the research project and exhibition, with contributions by members of IIP, Chao Tayiana Maina, George Abungu, Philip Jimbi Katana, Jacky Kwonyike and Wandile Kasibe
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    • Mashup Reader

      Year: 2017
      ISBN: 978-3957633989
      Mashup the Archive is a reader that expands upon and documents the titular artistic intervention series at Iwalewahaus, Universität Bayreuth.
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    • The Rubbish Companion

      Year: 2015
      ISBN: 978-3-942680-87-5
      We are in the future. There is no more oil on earth. Plastic becomes a rarity and valuable. A book becomes a practical and spiritual guide to this world: The Rubbish Companion.
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    • Letter to Lagat (with Simon Rittmeier)

      Year: 2015
      ISBN: 978-3-942680-72-1
      Letter to Lagat is a parable about ownership and loss. The book speculates about the sound vanishing of an entire collection from a museum in the North and asks what would remain behind.
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    • Afropolis

      Year: 2014
      ISBN: 978-1431-4032-5-7
      Afropolis is the product of an exhibition developed by the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne, Germany which focuses on Cairo, Lagos, Nairobi, Kinshasa and Johannesburg. Bringing together positions of artistic and cultural studies the catalogue tries to expand our understanding of the concept of urbanity and the phenomenon of the City from an African perspective.
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    • Mwangalio Tofauti

      Year: 2012
      ISBN: 978-9966-1553-3-7
      Mwangalio Tofauti- Nine Photographers from Kenya, is a stocktaking of the independent photography scene in Nairobi at the beginning of a new century with an essay of the Kenyan literary specialist Keguro Macharia.
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    • Grassroots Upgraded

      Year: 2011
      ISBN: 978-90-5856-391-0
      Grassroots upgraded is less a development project than an ironic take on the world of development. The approach is conceptual and political, the choice of medium aesthetic. Slum TV goes beyond the stereotypes that have shaped our representations of Africa.
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