Au sens du désert

Nomadologie des images et Mondes de l'art au regard d'un atelier d'art San contemporain au Botswana

This project aims to provide detailed comparative understanding of the socio-economic implications and cultural issues involved in the making of contemporary art in remote societies by following the processes of artworks’ production, circulation and reception of a particular workshop, the Kuru Art Project, situated in the Ghanzi district, Botswana.
The Kuru Art Project has been started in 1990 by a NGO involved in Botswana (the actual Kuru Family of Organizations), as a way to facilitate a development process with poor and marginalized communities living in and around the Ghanzi district, most of them being Naro San. Exhibited all over the world, these artworks have not only become an uncontested source of income, but also a vehicle of representation of „San socie­ties“ for an international public. Being at the same time artefacts to be sold and media of represen­tation, contemporary San art provides a place to observe how the status of these productions is transformed while navigating between the local and the global, and how they may become an in­strument of action in and on the world.