Kim Gurney Archives - The Centre for Humanities Research

September 30, 2026

A City in Practice: The Lubumbashi Biennale (2008-2024)

Kim Gurney, Senior Researcher for the UK-SA Bilateral chair in culture and technics at the CHR, is a contributing author for the first comprehensive publication on the Lubumbashi Biennale, a newly released book that traces relations between the city, its growing art scene and collective practice.

March 6, 2026

Johannesburg as Imaginarium: Public Art and Placemaking in the City

On Wednesday, 11 March, the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) and the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg will co-host a discussion titled Johannesburg as Imaginarium: Public Art and Placemaking in the City.

February 9, 2026

New Publication: Kim Gurney reviews Jay Pather’s edited volume, Restless Infections – Public Art and a Transforming City.

There is a double bind to writing about performance art, or live art as it is also called. Generally speaking, live art involves combinations of the body, time and space.

August 5, 2025

Residency Re-Sourced: Public Lecture by Kim Gurney

Kim Gurney will be giving an online keynote on Wednesday 5 August, for ‘Residency Re-sourced’, a collaborative project run by Goethe-Institut Nigeria.

July 18, 2025

Artists Forum: Future Forms: DIY Institution – Building

The Artists Forum connects scholarly exploration with the CHR’s Artist in Residency programme, so as to bring artists’ and humanistic study into a more intimate adjacency

June 27, 2025

‘5 indie art spaces in African cities worth knowing more about’, Kim Gurney in The Conversation

Kim Gurney’s latest publication for The Conversation discusses five indie art spaces in African cities worth knowing more about.

May 20, 2025

Publication: Instituting Worlds

The CHR is pleased to announce the publication of a chapter by Kim Gurney in an edited volume about architecture and islands, Instituting Worlds. The book, edited by Catharina Gabrielsson and Marko Jobst, is published by Routledge.

February 7, 2024

Flipside: The inadvertent Archive, by Kim Gurney

Architectural plans of a former house inspire the narrative structure of a new book by Kim Gurney, called Flipside: The inadvertent Archive, which takes the reader on a thematic journey from room to room as it follows the trail of specific archival artefacts lodged in the building’s attic.

September 21, 2023

Publication announcement: Dr Kim Gurney, ‘Epistemic Disobedience’.

Institution-building as artistic practice is the topic of a paper published by the CHR’s Dr Kim Gurney, as part of artistic research conference proceedings. 'Epistemic Disobedience’ posits Nafasi Art Space in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, as a paradigmatic example of independent art spaces in Africa and their key working principles.

July 19, 2023