Livingstone Office for Contemporary Arts (LoCA) was established in 2014 as an artist-initiated non-profit library and research centre. It serves as a collective/collaborative platform for reflections and an experimental think-tank.

At Livingstone Office for Contemporary Arts (LoCA), we believe that creativity is the essence of progress. Our team works tirelessly to foster an environment where ideas flourish and artistic boundaries are pushed.

With over a decade the Livingstone Office for Contemporary Arts has dedicated itself to bring about critical awareness towards artistic practice and its relations to aesthetics, social, politics, history and cultural challenges.

Our work investigates histories (colonial histories, social and political histories and their legacies) and how they relate to language and contemporary art locally and internationally.

LoCA act as a mediation and education platform through didactic workshops and teaching projects and critically discusses and unpack texts, theories and practices in art history while examining the position of Zambian Contemporary art relation to western models.

LoCA functions within a constellation of art and cultural institutions in Livingstone, and it thrives from their support and collaboration while acting as a resource facility within the same network.- a community where experimental practices and fresh perspectives are fostered and shared among interdisciplinary artists, curators, writers, scholars, cultural custodians and audiences in the region. – meet the team