Period
2016
Proposed by
Osei Bonsu
Location
Johannesburg
About the project
Members of NGO propose to construct ‘a garden of fugacious sentiment’. This staged ‘botanical’ environment will consist of an indoor garden with a reading room/ library of gardening/plant life, relaxation/thought pads and a listening/ sonic space. The Garden of Fugacious Sentiment is an ecological repository for affects/ sensualities/(sensual healing)/linguistic mapping and tuning/ things/ communality/ labour & nurture/ seasons, locations and possible re-mappings…
NGO is located in Johannesburg, a city founded after the discovery of gold in the 1880s. It is based in the city centre, in a street perpendicular to the MaiMai indigenous herbs market, and shares the street with many others including numerous sex workers, a taxi washing station, liquor stores and car mechanics.
The full scale living collage or bricolage functions as a post-scriptum/footnote——-> a (re)consideration after an egregious encounter. The ongoing project of events (for 18 months) interrogates the premise(s) of post-apartheid spatial planning. A potential space between bodies and things/ voice and vibration/ encounters and sensualities. The staging attempts to construct a space of convalescence, its affective tonality enunciating what lays hidden/ partially visible.
Links:
Article: “NGO – Nothing Gets Organised” on Contemporaryand
External links
About the artist
NGO – NOTHING GETS ORGANISED exists as a forlorn and contemplative_____, a ____ and _____ twirl in a moment of bewilderment. The platform functions as a space to reflect on shifting and uneasy entanglements. NGO is interested in unconventional processes of self-organising – those that do not imply structure, tangibility, context or form. It is a space for (NON)SENSE where (NON)SENSE can profoundly gesticulate towards, dislodge, embrace, disavow, or exist as nothingness!
