Thinking from Perennial Corridors is a project based on LoCA's research interrogating practices of resistance, language, liberation and solidarity movements in relation to contemporary art,–– while considering the movement of both animals and human beings within our geographical centrality. How do we develop collaboration projects, exhibitions or conversations that traverse across Livingstone City in Zambia, Victoria Town in Zimbabwe, Kasani in Botswana and Capiriv in Namibia, an area with natural wonder and wildlife conservation filled with wildlife that moves freely around? The region in which Livingstone exists is usually referred to as the four corners of the world.
Can an international exhibition or artistic practices be structured based on the perennial animal corridors in this geographical area?
For a very long time, the cities of Livingstone, Zambia and Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, have had no art schools or institutions dedicated to contemporary art and criticality concerning art production or exhibition-making. Therefore, to reflect and aspire for an International exhibition/s in the form of an 'Art biennial' must mean different things. It has to be an International exhibition/s informed by our lack but also our aspiration to become a place of cultural exchange that reflects on the transitory historic junction that Livingstone is and has been since the 1800s. A component that still determines her identity today. To think about an Art Biennial here, one must shift away from the conventional idea or understanding of the 'Biennial' as we know it. "Here", the Biennial must be more than just creating a momentous happening occurring every two years, adding to the jet-setting identity that pursues biennials. The immediate above is not a critique levelled against the biennial structure in Europe and other places but an opening invitation to rethink other models and create a more needed alternative that would function in the cases of places like Livingstone in Zambia.
To think from the mind-state of perenniality is equated to sustainability, and we see; "perenniality as mode or method in which sustainability of resource, economy and urgency occur. It allows for segmenting small actions of resistance and reflections that inform collective understanding. It allows rejuvenation, as when something is running out, overused or outrun; therefore, the resuscitation or finding a way to adapt it.