It is not easy finding partnerships and collaborations if you are a community based collective.
We live in a society where information is not easy to get. I think most institutions have artists who they normally work with locally.
We didn't apply for collaboration with MATZA, they heard of us and asked if we would like to collaborate.
Shabu Mwangi began practicing art in 2003. He lives and works in Mukuru, where he established the Wajukuu Art Project in 2013 to highlight the lives of disadvantaged minorities in his community. Shabu is deeply concerned by society’s inequality and our lack of empathy for people with different social, political, ethnic, and religious beliefs, and his work seeks to examine human behaviour and probe our collective amnesia.
1. What made you start practicing art? What difference do you feel it has made in your community? I started the project as way to share my voice and views on things I encounter, and as a way to give voice to my community at a time when unified voices from such environments are fading. The difference that art has made or brought in my community is massive. It has improved our self-awareness and knowledge, and also given identity to people who were once viewed as inadequate compared to other Kenyans.
