Programs

As a part of its efforts to sponsor and promote knowledge and education of cultural and artistic practices centered on Sufism, AFSACK® hosts a variety of events and ongoing programs, including the AFSACK Salon Series.

AFSACK Salon Series is a seasonal webinar where recent cultural, artistic, and scholarly works relating to Sufism are discussed. Each hour-long conversation focuses on a theme related to our guests’ recent projects. As a platform for dialogue, the Salon Series seeks to foster interdisciplinary conversations that bridge broader concepts across various fields with Sufism, as well as create dialogue with Sufi art, culture, and thought. We’re excited to bring different audiences together, to make the subject matter more accessible to a wider audience, from academics and musicians, to practitioners and poets.

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Recent Event

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Poetic Transformations with Troy Makaza
Poetic Transformations with Troy Makaza

Troy Makaza’s work is a conscious reflection on the conditions of life today in Zimbabwe, both as a human and as a political subject. Drawing from cultural, sociopolitical, and personal histories, the artist transforms silicone and pigment to paint, going on to pipe, cast, and weave the viscous substance into his enigmatic compositions. 

Crafting materiality and storytelling into a distinctive artistic language, the artist’s material process models his creative concerns. As the silicone transitions from plastic, to paint, to sculpture, to tapestry, the artwork’s narrative shifts from personal, to political, to existential.  

This Salon explores the artist’s inspirations and influences, as well as the ways in which his Shona heritage and Sufism shaped his creative process in the making of Mutiwaora (The tree is rotten), a monumental silicone painting-sculpture created specifically for the exhibition Un Ciel intérieur.

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