AAL Lab Members

32° East

32° East

32° East provides artists with the support, resources, and community they need to advance their craft, critically reflect our world, and imagine a new one. As part of our resources, we house an extensive Arts library that includes catalogues,...

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Bootleg Griot

Bootleg Griot

Bootleg Griot is an independent public library initiative dedicated to broadening access to literature and print media. Committed to collecting, preserving, and presenting works by artists, collectives, and writers of African descent, it serves...

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CCA Lagos

CCA Lagos

The Centre for Contemporary Art, CCA, Lagos, is an independent non-profit making visual art organisation founded in December 2007 by Bisi Silva (1962 – 2019). The centre provides a platform for the development, presentation, and discussion...

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Contemporary And (C&)

Contemporary And (C&)

Contemporary And (C&) is a platform for international contemporary art and thought. Founded in 2013 as a bilingual online magazine, C& has since unfolded into the C& Cosmos: two online magazines (C& Magazine and C& América...

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Fondation H

Fondation H

Fondation H is a Malagasy contemporary art foundation. It was founded in Antananarivo in 2017 on the initiative of entrepreneur and patron Hassanein Hiridjee, who believed that art and culture have a strong social impact and enable a critical...

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Iwalewa Books

Iwalewa Books

iwalewabooks is a publishing house for art, discourse and archives. We dedicate our publications to​ aesthetic discourses, the politics of collecting and archiving, and pleasure politics. ​​Creating books is an aesthetic and collective endeavour....

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Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation

Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation

Launched in 2020, the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation (JCAF) is a foundation dedicated to research, technology and art. As a philanthropic institution, JCAF combines academic inquiry, a platform for museum-quality exhibitions and an innovative...

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Kokoba

Kokoba

KOKOBA: Meeting Our Griots is a multimodal literary platform operating at the intersection of art, research, archiving, documentation, and education. It provides access to Africa’s literary and intellectual heritage through inclusive,...

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AAL LAB AFFILIATES

African Style Archive

African Style Archive

African Style Archive (ASA) is a research platform and visual repository dedicated to documenting and preserving African fashion history. By collecting photographs, rare books, and ephemera, ASA connects historic and contemporary narratives of...

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Afrosonic Innovation Lab

Afrosonic Innovation Lab

The Afrosonic Innovation Lab is a team of artists, creatives, and scholars actively engaged in the making of music, sound experimentation, and musicological analysis. We actively seek and cultivate projects globally which involve research...

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Baldwin Institute

Baldwin Institute

The Baldwin Institute is a Brooklyn-based nonprofit dedicated to advancing literacy, creativity, and critical thinking among young people across New York City. Inspired by the life and legacy of James Baldwin, we create educational third...

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Morning Star Research Center for the Afterlife of Slavery

Morning Star Research Center for the Afterlife of Slavery

The Morning Star Research Center for the Afterlife of Slavery (MSRCAS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in California dedicated to the collection, study, and presentation of materials that engage with the ongoing legacies of Atlantic...

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The Recovery Plan

The Recovery Plan

The Recovery Plan brings to the AAL Lab Affiliates Network a distinctive model of cultural infrastructure rooted in convening, research activation, and Afro-diasporic knowledge exchange. Based in Florence, the organisation has developed a dynamic...

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