South Ways - Art Undercurrents across the South

A series of projects attempted to explore a southern perspective for global visual art. The South Project was a series of gatherings across the latitude to develop a southsouth network and conversation. This was followed by an intellectual push through Southern Theory to diversity academic frameworks beyond the trans-Atlantic. The application of this to visual arts was explored with the project South Ways, which involved developing particular verbs for creative engagements to bestow, to open, to swap and to glean. Such ventures involve a promise yet to be realised that the orientation of visual arts towards the South can involve people of the South themselves, both popular and elite.