Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi was born in New York and has lived in Harare and Johannesburg since the early 1990s. She is a painter, video artist and filmmaker who divides her time between studio work and navigating the field of art as social practice. Her work investigates power and its political, social and architectural structures. Implicit in her examination of these structures is an interrogation of the invisible forces that create them, and an imagining of alternatives (http://thenjiwenkosi.com/).

In the following two classes on Tuesday, March 26, Ms. Nkosi will look at Border Farm, a multimedia project on the South African/Zimbabwean border that she produced in collaboration with Zimbabwean migrant farm workers (http://borderfarm.blogspot.ca/), and situate it within broader discussions such as:

-The challenges and opportunities of collaborative/participatory art or research projects
-Film (and photography) as both an end and means in creative or research-based projects that seek to have a social impact
-The realities of south-south migration, in this case, Zimbabwe to South Africa.

The classes are:

-FILM 3608 B, Topics in Film History, Topic: African Cinema, Prof. Aboubakar Sanogo,
St. Patrick’s Building #417, 8:35-9:55

- AFRI 3001A, Globalization and Popular Culture in Africa, Prof. Nduka Otiono,
Southam Hall #413, 10:05-11:25