By Iminza Keboge
Published August 6, 2021
An art show that imagines a future with technology that draws from local stories, myths and memories has opened at National Museums of Kenya headquarters in the capital, Nairobi.
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Titled Disobedient Devices and running daily between 8:30 AM and 5:00 PM (July 21 – August 31, 2021), the month-long exhibition, through modification and appropriation of used electric and electronic appliances, envisages a technological culture that connects to people’s life, world and that goes beyond nihilistic and unsustainable ideologies of endless growth.
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Disobedient Devices, that is organised by Warembo Wasanii Art Studio in Nairobi and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama of University of London, is by Greenman Muleh Mbillo, Joan Otieno and Dani Ploeger who have been working together in Nairobi since 2017.
The exhibition at Nairobi National Museum shows eight devices created by artists, fundis (artisans) and academics who participated in workshops organised between 2019 and 2020, as well as three short science-fiction films by Mbillo, Otieno and Ploeger in which these objects are put to work.
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The show is supported by the Global Challenges Research Fund.
