I wrote an article for the Counterpunch website about my recent experience attending and participating in the 8th Lubumbashi Biennial. I was invited to participate by the Picha Art Collective, a group of Congolese artists and allies who have been curating and staging the event for the past sixteen years in the city of Lubumbashi, the mining capital of DR Congo, located in the far southeast of the country in Katanga province. My participation involved a body of collaborative work created with two other artists; Toshie Takeuchi of Japan and SIxte Kakinda of DRC. Each of us had been independently making work about Congo’s Shinkolobwe mine (source of the uranium that powered the project to design and detonate the first atomic weapons) and it was a treat to collaborate on a body of work that deeply investigates and describes the powerful and little known history of this mine. Truly one of the most unknown but most important sites in world history, the mine and the people who dug its ore are going to be the subject of further work to come late this year.

Portland, Oregon’s Willamette Week newspaper also wrote a nice piece about the project prior to my departure, and I wrote the text for a feature in Belgium’s GLEAN art magazine for the guest editorship of their 6th issue. (paywalled).