The AFIELD Network Announces 2024 Transitional Justice Fellows
This year AFIELD launched a new grant focusing on transitional justice. Transitional justice can be described as structures and methods societies use to address large-scale human rights abuses and injustices that arise from conflicts or repressive regimes, to foster reconciliation, accountability, and healing through mechanisms such as truth commissions, reparations, and legal reforms.
4 grants of US$10,000 are distributed to artists and cultural workers who advance and contribute to the mechanisms of transitional justice in various contexts.
THE FOUR 2024 TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE FELLOWS ARE
DIONE ROACH & STEVE ‘VIDOU H’ HAPPI (CAMEROON)
Artist Dione Roach and music producer and sound engineer Steve ‘Vidou H’ Happi were awarded the 2024 AFIELD Transitional Justice grant for Jail Time Records.
Jail Time Records is a music label first established within the walls of the prison, amplifying the voices of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists in Cameroon and Burkina Faso. The initiative shifts societal views on imprisonment and facilitates social rehabilitation.
CATPC (Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise) (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO)
CATPC collective (Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise) was awarded the 2024 AFIELD Transitional Justice grant for Post-Plantation.
CATPC is an art cooperative of plantation workers in Lusanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo. With their Post-Plantation project, the collective aims to decolonize former plantations by reclaiming, restoring, and regenerating both land and biodiversity. It critically examines the economic systems in the art world that have supported extractive policies and with the proceeds of their art, CATPC has built a practice of securing hundreds of hectares of former plantation land for future generations.
MANUEL CORREA (SPAIN/COLOMBIA)
Artist and filmmaker Manuel Correa was awarded the 2024 AFIELD Transitional Justice grant for Memories from Exile.
Memories from Exile is a video project centered on the experience and disappearing knowledge of judges from the 1980s-90s in Colombia who were forced into exile. The project, through reenactments, produces new visual evidence for Colombia’s collective memory and questions conceptions of truth.
PEROU (FRANCE)
CONSIDERING THOSE MISSING AT SEA (A PART OF THE NAVIRE AVENIR)
PEROU collective (Pôle d’Exploration Des Ressources Urbaines) was awarded the 2024 AFIELD Transitional Justice grant for considering those missing at sea (a part of the Navire Avenir).
considering those missing at sea (a part of the Navire Avenir) is a project that seeks to honor and preserve the memory of individuals who disappear in the Mediterranean Sea while attempting to reach Europe.