Special Projects
Our collaborative projects create offerings for people to gather and reflect in imaginative ways that connect us to the past, present and future. Alongside KAKAZI Oral Histories, we work with individuals, galleries, brands and unique spaces to facilitate moments of intimacy, play and connection.
KAKAZI Oral Histoires
What began as a personal journey into trying to understand my heritage, my home and my healing, has evolved into KAKAZI Oral Histories—a space rooted in traditions of gathering and storytelling as a restorative practice for African and Caribbean diasporan people. In various forms and languages extending beyond the spoken word, encompassing the use of voice, objects, and images we intend to encourage deep and meaningful connections between people and places across time. Together we reflect, creating portals to the past, present and future stimulated by the sounds, textures and colours of our shared experiences and differences.
Currently figuring how or if integrating KAKAZI Oral Histories and KAKAZI studio as one digital home serves serves the project and my capacity better. In the meantime, visit the platforms digital gathering space and find out more by clicking on the button below.
Crafting Intimacy & Play
Throughout 2023, Nabiséré Nicole was invited by the International Curators Forum (ICF) to curate a workshop series drawing from the values she has planted in the KAKAZI studio brand and platform. Collaborating closely with Artists and designers across various disciplines including sculpture, perfumery and drawing, the series invited Black women and gender nonconforming people to activate the sense by engage with personal archives and stories through art making and intergenerational discussions. This offering created intimate, playful and imaginative connections to the past, present and future.
A special thank you to all the artists who facilitated each workshop - Charmaine Watkiss , Maya Njai and Phoebe Collings- James. Thank you to the International Curators Forum team, Deputy Creative Director Jessica Taylor, Producer Yewande Yoyo Odunumbi and Producer Assistant Joanna Risvik.
Crafting Intimacy & Play
KAKAZI studio and the International Curators Forum have come together to collaborate on a workshop series connecting Black women and non-binary people to archiving, art making and intergenerational discussions