Nolan Oswald Dennis (b. 1988,
Lusaka) is an interdisciplinary artist from Johannesburg, South Africa. His
practice explores what he calls ‘a black consciousness of space’. The material
and metaphysical conditions of decolonization.
He is in interested
in so-called-marginal spatial systems and the nexus between material reality
and social fiction. He is currently thinking about geopolitics as an aspect of
geological rather than geographic relations: the
social-production of the earth as the first cosmic body, and water as the
second.
He holds a BAS in
Architecture from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is
currently a Masters of Science candidate in the Art, Culture and Technology
program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Image titles / credits:
Image 1
title: Black Liberation Zodiac (pre-alpha v.01)
medium:
Wallpaper and video installation
credit:
courtesy the artist and Kalmar Konstmuseum
Image 2 and 3
title:
Portal studies: Azania
medium:
Performance lecture and installation (video, tiles, drawing)
credit: courtesy the artist and MIT program in Art Culture and
Technology