SPARCK

SPARCK is run by a two-woman, activist-artist-writer-scholar team: Kadiatou Diallo and Dominique Malaquais. Together, we are experimenting with novel ways of collaborating. Hierarchies are replaced with joint decision-making and collective responsibilities, physical centres and offices with mobile and virtual workspaces. Process and results are equally important and always experimental... SPARCK was founded in 2008. Its history, however, goes further back and is linked to the inception of the Africa Centre, a Cape Town based NGO dedicated to contemporary cultural practice on the African continent. The idea of the Africa Centre emerged, initially, from a discussion process that brought together nine artists, scholars and activists from across Africa, Europe and North America over an 18-month period (2004-2005). These discussions pointed towards the need for a programme of residencies, performances, publications, exhibitions, workshops and interventions focused on experimental urban..